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Mitt Romney continues to trail in every single swing state. The latest NBC/WSJ/Marist polls show Obama with a small two point lead in Nevada and North Carolina. Obama holds a seven point lead in New Hampshire.
Nevada
Marist (9/23-25)
Barack Obama 49%
Mitt Romney 47%
Other 1%
Undecided 3%
North Carolina
Marist (9/23-25)
Barack Obama 48%
Mitt Romney 46%
Other 1%
Undecided 5%
New Hampshire
Marist (9/23-25)
Barack Obama 51%
Mitt Romney 44%
Other 1%
Undecided 4%
The polling also confirms that Romney has lost his previous advantage on the economy. In Nevada and North Carolina, the two candidates are basically tied on the question of who would better handle the economy. In New Hampshire, Obama has a small edge on the issue.
While there is no silver lining in this set of polling data for Romney, there is one piece of good new for Republicans. In the Nevada Senate race, the poll found Republican Dean Heller is at 49 percent while Democrat Shelley Berkley is at 43 percent. It is one of the few competitive Senate races that seems to be going relatively well for the Republican Party right now.
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With Obama waffling on Social Security and Medicare cuts, this ought to be a clean sweep for an empowered third party, or perhaps a dilapidated Romney/Ryan:
Obama unwilling to commit to NO CUTS.
What is wrong with Shelly is she a Blue Dog? Does she oppose legal pot? Is she a bad campaigner? Does she have a personal scandal? Looking at the campaigns of Dems who are doing bad in the polls right now will tell us more about what does not work and we need to know that.
Obama is ahead in North Carolina? The GOP is loosing a Southern State??? Just why is Obama rising in the polls does anyone have any clue? Is it the issues? Are voters getting more educated on the issues? Or is it Mitt and his lying and bad campaign? Is it both equally? We need to know what are the biggest factors why Obama is winning and rank them.
Down here in Florida there is only one vote for Romney so far: my vote.
It is on this and the money we still spend on wars that I think Obama is vulnerable however Mitt is even worse. Still I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils and will be voting third party.
I’m just back from a visit to freeper land.
Now that Raz has Obama up 1 (before leaners), he is clearly part of the polling conspiracy. I think that just leaves them Dick Morris.
One guy has it all figured out. Romney is running such a poor campaign because he is part of the conspiracy to get Obama elected.
There is considerable arrogance in ignoring the wishes of the people and then fuming at them after he sold them out.
I think Obama is ahead is primarily due to the fact that since both the dems and repubs have moved rightward, the repubs policies become increasingly fringe-like.
There’s really not too much about Obama that a repub in, say, 1990, would have not have endorsed, or run on.
But now, in order to keep the meme alive that there are basic differences between the two parties–center-right v. right-right, the repubs have to become ever more rightwing to distinguish themselves, and they are now standing on the edge.
What else could they do, run to the left of Obama? Gerald Ford or Bush I might have done that, but they’re now gopper fossils.
I think that voters are turned off by the repub extremism.
Mitt also sucks as a candidate. One of the worst campaigns I’ve ever seen.
Look for both campaigns to make stops in, and have a lot of ads, in Washoe County (Reno, Sparks) NV. It’ll probably swing the state. Normally solid Republican, but moving to Democrat; more Latinos; the economy is not helping Romney; and the county Republican Party cut itself loose from State GOP in July
I posted that scenario earlier this week. Who doesn’t think this whole democratic election business isn’t Kabuki Theatre, produced by the plutocracy and starring their puppets to promote the illusion of democracy?