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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 09:35 AM Oct 2012

LOL! Poll has Obama up by 7 but headline is 'Romney within striking distance'

Here is the headline:
Ahead Of First Debate, NPR Poll Shows Romney Within Striking Distance

Here are the results:
The latest poll by NPR and its bipartisan polling team [pdf] shows President Obama with a 7-point lead among likely voters nationally and a nearly identical lead of 6 points in the dozen battleground states where both campaigns are spending most of their time and money.

The poll found 51 percent of the likely voters planning on or leaning toward a vote for the president, with 44 percent voting for or leaning toward his challenger. In the battleground subsample, the numbers were 50 percent Obama and 44 percent Romney. Those numbers were slightly better for the president than his job approval rating in the poll. Nationally, the president was at 50 percent approval (46 percent disapproval), but in the battleground he was at 48 percent approval and 49 percent disapproval.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/10/03/162171197/on-eve-of-first-debate-npr-poll-shows-romney-within-striking-distance






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LOL! Poll has Obama up by 7 but headline is 'Romney within striking distance' (Original Post) WI_DEM Oct 2012 OP
He's within striking distance of an embarrassing defeat. nt BootinUp Oct 2012 #1
He's going to seize defeat from the jaws of defeat. nt pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #3
!!!!! BumRushDaShow Oct 2012 #5
Media wants a horse race, they've invested in a horse race, they will report a horse race. porphyrian Oct 2012 #2
"within striking distance" means... Donkees Oct 2012 #4
National Republican Radio... Blue Idaho Oct 2012 #6
Obama won the 2008 popular vote by 6 points: JaneQPublic Oct 2012 #7
 

porphyrian

(18,530 posts)
2. Media wants a horse race, they've invested in a horse race, they will report a horse race.
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 09:40 AM
Oct 2012

It's horse shit.

Blue Idaho

(5,057 posts)
6. National Republican Radio...
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 10:18 AM
Oct 2012

NPR has some of the most republican biased reporting of any "legitimate" news source.

I say get the public out of National Public Radio and let them compete for ad dollars with their echo chamber friends at Fox, Rush Limpballs, and Sean Hannity.

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
7. Obama won the 2008 popular vote by 6 points:
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 10:48 AM
Oct 2012

Last edited Wed Oct 3, 2012, 02:07 PM - Edit history (1)

It was 53 to 47%.

And that was considered a clear enough lead that contesting the race was not feasible.

http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/presidential-election-vote-summary.html

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