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ProSense

(116,464 posts) Tue Jul 24, 2012, 06:50 PM Jul 2012

NBC/WSJ poll: Negative campaign takes toll on candidates; Obama up six points

NBC/WSJ poll: Negative campaign takes toll on candidates; Obama up six points

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In the presidential horserace, Obama leads Romney by six percentage points among registered voters, 49 percent to 43 percent.

That’s a slight change – within the margin of error – from last month’s poll, which showed Obama ahead by three points, 47 percent to 44 percent.

Read the full poll here (.pdf)

In a smaller sample of registered voters living in 12 battleground states (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin), the incumbent president’s lead over Romney is eight points, 49 to 41, which is essentially unchanged from June.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/24/12933159-nbcwsj-poll-negative-campaign-takes-toll-on-candidates-obama-up-six-points

Spin that poll!

Yeah, read the full poll, Obama's numbers are up.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today_Stories_Teases/12768_July_Poll.pdf

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NBC/WSJ poll: Negative campaign takes toll on candidates; Obama up six points (Original Post) ProSense Jul 2012 OP

What would Obama's numbers be if he were white...I am guessing about 85 percent... rfranklin Jul 2012 #1

My Guess: Probably Sixty Five Percent Vogon_Glory Jul 2012 #2

+1 treestar Jul 2012 #4

32% more negative view of Romney after news of witholding tax returns versus 2% more positive. n/t Tx4obama Jul 2012 #3

Mittens' history will be the undoing but only if we keep reminding everyone nc4bo Jul 2012 #5

Yup. n/t ProSense Jul 2012 #8

Without Relent Zyzafyx Jul 2012 #6

The new Obama add is perfect, uses rMoneys own words and tells what he would do uponit7771 Jul 2012 #7

Do you have a link to it? markpkessinger Jul 2012 #9

The more people know about Romney, the more they despise him Jessy169 Jul 2012 #10

Excellent, thanks for the link. n/t ProSense Jul 2012 #11

This needs to be posted as an OP - MUST READ n/t malaise Jul 2012 #12

Oxymoronic headline.... d'oh! annabanana Jul 2012 #13

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)

1. What would Obama's numbers be if he were white...I am guessing about 85 percent...

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:06 PM

Jul 2012

Any other opinions?

Vogon_Glory

(9,118 posts)

2. My Guess: Probably Sixty Five Percent

Reply to rfranklin (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:25 PM

Jul 2012

My guess is that if Anne Dunham had married, say, a Lebanese, the President's poll ratings would probably be in the sixty percent range. You'd still have that one third of right-wingnut crazy that would hate anyone to the left of Jefferson Davis and John C. Calhoun.

treestar

(82,383 posts)

4. +1

Reply to rfranklin (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:30 PM

Jul 2012

Same opinion here.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)

3. 32% more negative view of Romney after news of witholding tax returns versus 2% more positive. n/t

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:29 PM

Jul 2012

nc4bo

(17,651 posts)

5. Mittens' history will be the undoing but only if we keep reminding everyone

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:31 PM

Jul 2012

ruthlessly!

ProSense

(116,464 posts)

8. Yup. n/t

Reply to nc4bo (Reply #5)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 08:31 PM

Jul 2012

Zyzafyx

(124 posts)

6. Without Relent

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:32 PM

Jul 2012

Attack Romney again and again and again and again!

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)

7. The new Obama add is perfect, uses rMoneys own words and tells what he would do

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:33 PM

Jul 2012

markpkessinger

(8,401 posts)

9. Do you have a link to it?

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #7)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 08:33 PM

Jul 2012

I haven't seen it, and would like to. Thanks.

Jessy169

(602 posts)

10. The more people know about Romney, the more they despise him

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 09:39 PM

Jul 2012

Here's an amazing article by Dr. Brian Moench, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He is, or was, a Mormon who knew Romney from the "early years" and watched his assent through the Mormon Church. According to Dr. Boench, Romney is NOT a good Mormon, far from it.

Romney: Gold Medal in Dishonesty

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/20#.UAm8_IPP1cs.twitter