New PPP poll: Obama 49%, Romney 40% (2012 President)

[Jake Stillow]

This poll was released today, contradicting Rasmussen:

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_National_720.pdf

[bigwillq]

1. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Arkana]

2. This poll's pretty worthless too.

All 2012 polling is worthless right now.

[elocs]

6. Pollsters poll. That's what they do, worthless or not.

Yes, they are all pretty worthless now, but that won't stop the pollsters.

[graywarrior]

3. *sigh*

[bluestateguy]

4. Now will people support poll control legislation?

and common sense polling laws?

[stevedeshazer]

5. Good luck with that, Jake!

He's almost within the margin of error 40 months out.

I like your chances, fella.

[Turbineguy]

7. The Romnoid

No thanx.

[Clio the Leo]

8. Ok, now, how does he rate against Demint and Kristol? NT

[Buzz Clik]

9. Jesus. Can we at least wait until 2010?

[Avalux]

10. Oh noes!! Mr. Magic Underwear is closing in!

:crazy:

[quantass]

11. These Polls are useless - 3 years hence?!? Recall Hillary's poll was way off with just 2 weeks.

[Vicar In A Tutu]

13. Let's not forget that McCain had a decent lead in September, either.

I don't understand the poll obsession. Daily polls just after someone has taken office. Election polls six months into his term. It's crazy, it's lunacy! One need only look at Reagan & Clinton's poll collapses to know how little this crap means at the moment.

[NYC Democrat]

19. McCain had the lead for about a week and it wasn't that big it was just a convention bounce.

[Vicar In A Tutu]

22. Yes, but the lead he had despite having floundered previously.

It displays how incredibly, amazingly fickle people are. It's really preposterous to have a daily rolling poll at this point, that media sources pick it up and report on it - usually in a doom and gloom 'Obama's ratings have...DECLINED!' style - is just insane.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

12. Frame those numbers Cochece,

they're as good as it's going to get for the stormin' mormon...

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Even if undecideds break 7-4 for Romney

You get about the same result you had last time: massive GOP FAIL.

:rofl:

[Thrill]

15. YAWN. These polling places can kiss my ass

Obama is 6 months into his term and I should be wondering about how he matches up with someone for re-election. This is beyond stupid

[Patsy Stone]

16. Obama should just quit now then, huh?

:eyes:

[grantcart]

17. name one state that Obama took that Romney is going to take back

Obama has a good chance adding AZ

[JVS]

23. There are several states upon which Obama's grasp was/is quite tentative

IN, NC, and FL are by no means solidly blue states. Depending on economic performance OH could be in play as well, and although MI went pretty heavily for Obama, Romney is from there and fairly popular there and their economic situation could send pissed off (i.e. anti-incumbent) voters to the polls.

[Drunken Irishman]

18. That's a landslide.

[NYC Democrat]

20. yes and PPP also shows much lower approval then average for Obama but he still wins by 9 points

now what does that say about our good friend scotty over at Rasmussen???

[Peacetrain]

21. The religious right will not support Romney...

[saltpoint]

24. Romney placed third in the overall GOP primaries / caucuses behind

the witless John McCain and the folksy-but-dangerous Mike Huckabee.

He has his work cut out for him just securing his own party's nominatoin, let alone taking on Barack Obama.