For the past week basically every poll of a “swing state” has found President Obama with a solid lead over Mitt Romney, and a new set of NBC/WSJ/Marist polls are no different. The polling found Obama currently leads by more than the margin of error in Colorado, Iowa, and Wisconsin among likely voters.
Colorado
Marist (9/16-18)
Barack Obama 50%
Mitt Romney 45%
Other 1%
Undecided 4%
Iowa
Marist (9/16-18)
Barack Obama 50%
Mitt Romney 42%
Other 1%
Undecided 7%
Wisconsin
Marist (9/16-18)
Barack Obama 50%
Mitt Romney 45%
Other 1%
Undecided 4%
This is now the fourth poll in only a few days to confirm that Obama holds a solid advantage in Wisconsin. The prospect of Romney being able to expand the map by winning the state appears very unlikely at this point.
Besides the fact that he is losing, the other bad news in the polling for Romney is that his favorable rating is negative in three states while Obama’s is positive. At this point Romney would need to improve in overall standing nationally by at least four points to even be within striking distance of winning a large number of the swing states.




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Romney is just waiting for the right moment to reveal his job creation plan and the fact that he is really George Clooney.
And down the stretch they come with Wall Street lapping the field!
Not to worry, Obama the “progressive” will disappear one way or another November 6th, around 10 PM Eastern time.
Every piece of bad news for Romney;
every campaign gaffe;
every percentage-point increase for Obama…
Means that John Boehner will keep his position as de facto head of the republican party…
And, since, when Boehner was the leader of a party with a 79 seat deficit in the House, Barack Obama saw fit to politically lick his ass like it was an ice cream cone, Jon, I’d sure like to hear what all of your hoo-rawing about Obama’s pulling away (if it lasts…) is going to translate into, for any kind of real progressive agenda.
I mean, do you think:
If Obama wins, the democrats will re-take the House?
If he wins and they don’t re-take the House, is he going to find a way to cut into the “lead” that the corporate shits who have done so well in his first term, currently enjoy?
Will he even try? (After his hurry-up squandering of more political capital than practically any American preznint in history, I think it’s a fair question…how about you?)
In short, do you see anything from Obama that makes you think he’s now fired-up enough about loosening the corporate stranglehold on our economy and increasingly, our culture, to try to change that? Do you think he CAN, even if he wants to, with a republican House?
I’m a bit sorry to drop these little reality-turds into the “We’re really winning now!!! chiffon-congeal that you and a few other people are working so hard to sell, but after the past four years, pretending that Obama’s “bipartisan” farts are Chanel #5, is just asking for more of the same.
No. 3 post is funny. :)
Another way to look at all this: We can have fun with the gorgeous CNN electoral map as John King explains on Election Night just how Mitt Romney is underperforming John McCain’s numbers.
Red state. Purple state. Tossup state. Blue state. Corporatist United States. Of America.
Entertainment.
Once Obama wins (and he is going to win), he will go full-bore Reagan.
The first thing to watch for is how the “fiscal cliff” will be the MOST IMPORTANT THING that HAS TO BE DONE in the lame duck session (while Republicans still control the House) and we will have NO CHOICE except giving the Republicans whatever they want.
oh, agreed. Either way, Romney or Obama, we lose, corporatists win.
Polling is another bullshit propaganda arm of the MSM controlled by Corporate Power. I just saw Nate Silver’s latest blog and he now has a separate category for “surveys that use industry standard methodology”. Would it be a revolutionary thought that we always and only quote such surveys.
I heard, unconfirmed, he was going to replace Ryan with Scarlett Johansson and give everybody in the country with household incomes under $150,000, preferred stock in Bain Capital worth $7,000 and do so via a “tax free” subsidiary in Bermuda.
This election night will be more entertaining than the 2000 by leaps and bounds. Gonna be more fun that watching Ed Ames on Johnny Carson giving that wooden indian a circumcision.
I just took a poll using non-industry standard methodology and if Rmoney does this he will win with 47% of the vote.
I hope you’re wrong. But I won’t bet against it.
Sonofabitch.
Maybe Obama can counter with Halle Berry in place of Biden. If he issues an executive order outlawing hidden assets in Bermuda…….that should swing the pendulum back.
Romeny is a Corporation running for president – “The avarice of Romney and his buddies at the strip-mining, job-exporting, bankrupting private equity company called Bain Capital has no bounds. He thinks it’s perfectly fine for companies like Verizon, Boeing, Duke Energy, Navistar, Wells Fargo and Pepco to use all of our country’s government funded public infrastructures and services, and yet not only pay no income tax but actually rig the tax system so they can get billions back in “benefits”from the U.S. Treasury, as General Electric has done for years. At the same time, Romney never speaks out against 35,000 super-wealthy Americans who also do not pay any federal income tax. He rarely questions crony capitalism, wants to maintain an even bigger bloated military budget, and spearheads the many-sided supremacy of corporations over real people throughout our entire political economy. He is, essentially, a corporation running for president masquerading as an individual.”
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/274-41/13578-romney-is-a-corporation-masquerading-as-an-individual-for-president
Yes, my original analysis on Romney’s 47% remark was that by his own standards he will be voting for Obama.
AS OBAMA IS, so DEMS .Open your eyes mr.
Seems to be that i’m voting alone for Romney,never mind.
What policies on trade and finance that have allowed Mitt to do this does Obama not agree with?
It’s almost as if Jon sees this as a positive development. Partisanship requires a considerable denial of the facts.
The majority of these policies were implemented by the corporatist Bill Clinton and Obama is doing his best to implement more FTAs to further gut manufacturing while delivering his faux populist rhetoric.
“What policies on trade and finance that have allowed Mitt to do this does Obama not agree with?”
Now, there you go, ‘fats…asking a simple question that requires a simple answer. :o)
baaaad dog. :o)
Tell me again why I should care??