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pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 05:35 AM Oct 2012

Early polls indicate Barack Obama beats Mitt Romney in second debate

Political BuzzOctober 17, 2012
By: Matthew Emmer

Shortly after midnight following Tuesday’s second presidential debate between Democratic President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Willard Mitt Romney, most major snap polls showed that Obama won. These polls include:

CNBC.com, which had Obama beating Romney by a significant 68% to 28% spread with nearly 62,000 responses;

CBS News, whose poll of uncommitted voters gave Obama a win by 37% to 30%;

ABC News, which indicated Obama winning by a huge 70% to 24% margin;

CNN.com whose reader poll showed Obama beating Romney decisively, by 68% to 32%, with well over 15,000 responses;

CNN/ORC, which chalked up a win by Obama, 46% to 39%;

Public Policy Polling (PPP), which gave President Obama a 48%-44% win over Romney in swing state Colorado, with undecided voters breaking more sharply for Obama, 58%-36%;

The New York Daily News, which also scored a big win for President Obama, 63% to 29%;

Even Fox News’ Insider blog had Obama winning over Romney by a wide margin, 71% to 29%.

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http://www.examiner.com/article/early-polls-indicate-barack-obama-beats-mitt-romney-second-debate?CID=examiner_alerts_article



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Early polls indicate Barack Obama beats Mitt Romney in second debate (Original Post) pinboy3niner Oct 2012 OP
Common sense indicates polls not needed Berlum Oct 2012 #1
Strictly speaking, only a handful of these are "snap polls"... regnaD kciN Oct 2012 #2
debate vadermike Oct 2012 #3
Don't worry about North Carolina John2 Oct 2012 #6
Obama cleaned his clock malaise Oct 2012 #4
Cleaned his clock and wiped the floor with him BumRushDaShow Oct 2012 #5

Berlum

(7,044 posts)
1. Common sense indicates polls not needed
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 05:38 AM
Oct 2012

anyone who watched say that Romney was, frankly, offensive, and Obama won hands down.

regnaD kciN

(26,045 posts)
2. Strictly speaking, only a handful of these are "snap polls"...
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 05:44 AM
Oct 2012

...the others, including most of the ones with really huge margins, were website polls "for entertainment purposes only"...although I doubt the G.O.P. finds them very entertaining.

I'd say well have to wait until Friday at the earliest to see what sort of bounce (if any) Obama will receive from this.



vadermike

(1,417 posts)
3. debate
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 05:56 AM
Oct 2012

I (and many others) including alot of people in the media, which is good. think Obama won hands down.. that Colorado poll of voters is great.. I think it will move the polls.. I think at the end of the day Obama will probably win.. but I don't think it will be a landslide like pre-debate.. maybe 3 pts plus. We knew all year that this election would be close... But he did what he had to do tonite plus more.......I think we should have no problem with OH and CO.. and NV (I live here in NV).. WI WE SHOULD HAVE NO PROB WITH.. EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST ICING ON THE CAKE.. (i think NC might be a stretcH.. but VA we may be back up in after tonite. and FL is tough but we will make them spend $$ there.) thats just my .02... WILLARD would have to run the table on a shitload of swing states .. the President after tonite stopped that i think plus stopped the bleeding and got back extra brownie points !!

GOBAMA!!!

 

John2

(2,730 posts)
6. Don't worry about North Carolina
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 06:34 AM
Oct 2012

Don't worry about North Carolina because early voting actually begins on Thursday. That will be the real Poll, instead of those fake Polls by the GOP. You'll see where the real votes are and the first lady is suppose to be here on Thursday to kick off early voting. Kids in North Carolina actually went for Obama too. It was one of the few Southern States to do so.

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