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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
BootinUp
(47,192 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,519 posts)porphyrian
(18,530 posts)It's horse shit.
Donkees
(31,462 posts)...that Mitt has a better chance at being struck by lightning
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)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)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