That the GOP blocked everything Obama tried to do. Team Obama needs to show those votes in commercials and tell the people how it effects them.

and will hear that the polls was heavily gop voters.

They should have asked about Afghanistan and The Middle East after Foreign Affairs just to make things fair.

If so, then it explains the numbers. But the Prez election is awarded by electoral collage not popular vote, so this poll would have to be done in the "swing" states to determine who has the edge.

I don't think so.

...didn't ask about the environment, and didn't split the other issues into "sub-groups" --so the structure would inherently favor a Rmoney outcome, yes?

virtually no social issues are listed.

What about LGBT rights and equality? That is going to be very important this election. There couldnt be a clearer distinction between Romney and Obama on LGBT equality.

What about Women's rights and equality? That is also going to be very important this election. The gulf between Republicans in general and Democrats in general on Women's rights is also huge. Republicans have outed their war on women in the last few months.

thanks for this. Makes me feel a lot better, and can't we get a high five smilie??

I just ignore them, like I ignore Fox News.

But President Obama wins electoral college. We know which one counts.

I bet the Repukes would cry and try and change the rules again.

People see him as intelligent and capable, but they don't like him and they don't trust him.

"Actually, this poll sums up Romney's problems in a nutshell

People see him as intelligent and capable, but they don't like him and they don't trust him."

...are simply too skewed to Romney to believe that being likeable is Obama's only advantage and opportunity to win.

Pew poll a week ago:



http://www.people-press.org/2012/07/12/obama-holds-lead-romney-trails-on-most-issues/

Now granted that Romney has some advantage on some aspects of the econony, Gallup would have you believe that liking Obama and his foreign policy is the only advantage he has.

It will be interesting to see what the NBC/WSJ poll reveals.

WSJ/NBC Poll: Romney Leads on the Economy, Trails Elsewhere
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021012623

Their samples are larger and taken more than once.

They are more thorough and typically use bigger samples.

Hell, I'm surprised Romney did as well in that category as he did. He seems about as approachable as a shark when you are bleeding. And that may be overstating it because at least a shark is interesting enough to be dangerous. Mitt Romney is somewhere between green shag carpet and lead balloons on the likeability scale.

Why is it that all the reporting on Bain, Tax Return, Secrecy and so on seem to have no effect on the polls?
How can anyone explain that mystifying poll figure on Health Care?
I think that the key here is to understand that 'issues' are not what drives decision-making in the electorate, but rather that 'issues' are used to defend a conclusion already arrived at.
Talking with a conservative the other day I brought up Romney's huge IRA account, many, many times the amount he could have contributed. I said, sarcastically, that I'd like to get a return on investment like that. My conservative friend replied 'So would I'.
The difference is, my friend meant it.
What, to me was support for the notion that Romney is a bare-fanged, amoral businessman who has suspiciously good luck investing and avoiding taxes, my friend saw as the podium for a shining role model for free enterprise and individual achievement.
My friend does not want economic equality ... he wants to win, just like Romney did. The American myth of the independent, hard-working self-made businessman is, at the core, a justification for greed and an affirmation that monetary success is also an affirmation of personal virtue. That is why the word "Socialism" has, sadly, become a toxic term, antithetical to the great myth of American self-reliance and the winer-take-all American way.
My friend heartily agrees with Sununu: that Obama should learn to be an American and get his myths in order.
Romney is tapping this vein when he accuses Obama of 'attacking success'. Call it an attack on the most cherished myth of many Americans: that honest, hard work and integrity can get you into the yacht club. This myth has kept working-class Republicans voting for the GOP for generations.
I'm afraid that the issues are not nearly so relevant as the myths one believes in. As long as Romney keeps his lips closed and his records secret the myth will overcome all doubt about the man. Facts and issues are sort of like the all those federal regulations and government agencies that simply get in the way of people who want to get ahead of everyone else.

"Why is it that all the reporting on Bain, Tax Return, Secrecy and so on seem to have no effect on the polls? "

...polls can be manipulated. I mean, the polls are showing a stagnant race (at best for Romney, a statistical dead heat with the President ahead by one point).

With the emphasis on the economic question, the message from these polls is to loudly proclaim that the "Bain attacks aren't working."

Yet, three polls today show that the Bain/tax return issues have gained significant prominence.

Pew: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021013341

Reuters: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021011120

Daily Kos/SEIU: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021011319

Hell even Gallup had a poll last week showing that the majority of Americans want Romney to release his returns: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002975581

Welcome.

like Rmoney are job creators who drive the economy. Dems need to drive home that greedy CEO's and other business leaders, drove the economy and jobs off a cliff just a few years ago. ... Make Rmoney the face of Wallstreet, and the economic downturn.

You nailed it above.

(Pardon the overuse of the word(s) drive/drove.)

nt

The economy and understands problems Americans face. This race will be close in the popular vote. Maybe not so much the electoral college. Obama will win both but the latter by a wider spread than the former.

That's my prediction.

for a Morman and sit this election out

a case in recent presidential politis where the Democrat was given preference over the Republican in Foreign Policy. Ever. Maybe if you want back to Johnson v. Goldwater.

and they said to pick the best one that applies

out several choices, or to give a question which requres a response of 1 is the best 5 is the worst

I have no idea if that is how this was done, or who funded the poll, but i have issues with questions like I was given