ABC News/Wash Post - (Romney +1) again, but Obama at 50% Approval

[TroyD]

ABC News/Wash Post - Romney +1

Romney - 49

Obama - 48

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President Obama Job Approval - Approve +1

Approve - 50

Disapprove - 49

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postabcpoll_20121029.html

[Doctor Jack]

1. How can they have polls?

A huge portion of the country, one this is overwhelmingly democratic, haven't been reachable since early yesterday. Why would they even bother?

[Maximumnegro]

4. Doesn't matter. Romney has lost.

National polls are all academic at this point.

I mean a rally in a high school gym with students and staff?

Oh my god he's toast.

[Doctor Jack]

7. It wasn't a rally it was a "storm relief concert"

Sort of like Farm Aid except in every way imaginable

[anneboleyn]

22. Haha, that is awesome. Like Farm Aid, except not...!!!

[TroyD]

12. 'Doesn't matter. Romney has lost.'

Could you please stop saying that?

Romney hasn't lost until he is put down officially on Election Night and Obama is declared elected.

Both Barack Obama & Michelle Obama have in fact said over the past month that it's possible Obama can lose this election if people take it for granted and don't come out to vote.

So there is a week left of work to do yet.

[RBInMaine]

19. Yes, lots of work to do and can't be complacement. Must also be optimistic.

[wisteria]

13. President Obama did that during his first run here in SW PA. n/t

[fugop]

2. Did this include yesterday and last night?

I mean, I'm not a big unskewer, but really. Was anyone answering pollsters on the phone in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast last night? Wish ABC/WashPo would break down where those surveyed were located.

[woolldog]

3. wondering the same thing.

Would seem to me that national (and even state polls in the northeast/virginia) are useless right now with so many people out of power

[fugop]

6. Yep. Dumb as Gallup's been, at least they were smart enough to stop polling.

Maybe this will help them hit the reset button and produce polls that suddenly make sense. "OOPS! In the two days we stopped, clearly EVERYTHING'S CHANGED!"

[woolldog]

8. heheh

I was thinking the same thing.

More likely Gallup doesn't put out anymore polls, that way they can argue there was a sudden shift to Obama over the last week.

[progressivebydesign]

5. Once again.. "likely voters?" who are curated in a screen??

Because the likely voters look nothing like the people standing line for hours to vote early for the president in swing states.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

9. [phone] - There are a lot of African American voters that the pollsters

Did not expect to come to the party.

Likely the same with all minorities.

I believe that when Sununu opened his pie hole and said, 'Colin Powell only endorsed Obama because he is black," it motivated a lot more than the GOP base.

[1springhill]

10. I am at a loss..........

to explain how this thing could be tied. With all the lying, utter ridiculousness of Romney and the republican party; not to mention the improvement in the economy. What the hell is wrong with people?

[TroyD]

14. That's the way a polarized, two-party system works

How did Bush get half the vote? (Even though he stole the election).

You could put a member of the KKK on the Republican ticket and millions of people will still vote for it. It's just the reality of the system we live in.

McCain & Palin still managed to get 46% of the vote in 2008 despite the fact that there had been 8 years of Bush, a collapsing economy and a choice for V.P. who wasn't qualified to be President.

[wisteria]

15. I don't know. gullible, greedy, hateful? n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

21. And racist?

[dennis4868]

20. There are many low info voters out there

Who believe Romney's (and Fox News) lies.

[wisteria]

11. I think they just ran wiith the poll from the other day. n/t

[Jennicut]

16. It was 26th to 29th. Was the polling done before the storm came in?

We were all hunkered down here on the east coast and many lost power right away. Doesn't matter anyway. Most polls are simply bouncing around the margins of error right now. Even Rasmussen the last two days, though I expect them to say Romney plus 5 right before the election. Only Gallup is the real outlier.

[TroyD]

17. 'I expect them to say Romney plus 5 right before the election'

Isn't Rasmussen likely to try and keep the numbers close in the National polls?

Would he want to risk losing his reputation as one of the best pollsters by being way off?

[Jennicut]

25. This is how I feel.

Scott Rasmussen did not seem to care in 2010. So that is why I don't trust him to change his more conservative leaning voter ID model before election day. If the polling stays close, then I assume Romney is in bigger trouble because his polls skew so conservatively. I think Rasmussen went in full to support Romney. He probably did not feel so strongly toward McCain.

[S_E_Fudd]

18. That they don't release the registered voter %s makes this much less useful....

They screen out the 5% of voters who indicate they probably will vote, but are not certain. Most of them are probably votes for the President...

Certainly makes the 1% difference meaningless...and probably puts Obama 2 or so points ahead in reality

[budkin]

23. How the hell is Romney leading in any poll?

What the hell is wrong with people?

[TroyD]

24. That's the way a polarized, two-party system works

How did Bush get half the vote? (Even though he stole the election).

You could put a member of the KKK on the Republican ticket and millions of people will still vote for it. It's just the reality of the system we live in.

McCain & Palin still managed to get 46% of the vote in 2008 despite the fact that there had been 8 years of Bush, a collapsing economy and a choice for V.P. who wasn't qualified to be President.