ABC News/WaPo Poll: Obama Leads Romney By 3 Points
Source: TPM
President Obama leads Mitt Romney 49 percent to 46 percent among likely voters, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll released Monday finds:
Nearly two-thirds say they do not need any more information before Election Day, and barely one in eight is undecided or says there is a chance he could change his vote. Even as voters overwhelmingly perceive that Romney won the first debate, the vast majority say their opinion of the president did not shift as a result.
Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/abc-news-wapo-poll-obama-leads-romney-by
Direct link to WaPo article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/presidential-contest-tight-nationally-ahead-of-second-debate/2012/10/14/fe5fd9a4-1633-11e2-8792-cf5305eddf60_story.html
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)VespertineIconoclast
(1,130 posts)skeewee08
(1,983 posts)"Even as voters overwhelmingly perceive that Romney won the first debate, the vast majority say their opinion of the president did not shift as a result."
winstars
(4,220 posts)cmelo
(5 posts)If Blacks are 98% for the President and Latinos are almost 70% for the President....Than why do the Polls show that the race is so tight. Do the people that run the Polls every ask Blacks and Latinos who they are voting for...I'm Latino and no one ever asked me.
lalalu
(1,663 posts)It's behind the whole voter suppression.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)the country is still majority white... These figures are from the 2010 census:
White persons, percent, 2011 (a) 78.1%
Black persons, percent definition and source info Black persons, percent, 2011 (a) 13.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent definition and source info American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2011 (a) 1.2%
Asian persons, percent definition and source info Asian persons, percent, 2011 (a) 5.0%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander persons, percent definition and source info Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander persons, percent, 2011 (a) 0.2%
Persons reporting two or more races, percent definition and source info Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2011 2.3%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino Origin, percent definition and source info Persons of Hispanic or Latino Origin, percent, 2011 (b) 16.7%
White persons not Hispanic, percent definition and source info White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2011 63.4%
cmelo
(5 posts)In my family we are like the united nation...There are over 125 nationality and only 2 are white so thats only 2.5 % but you say whites are the majority..Hmmmm
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)There's some evidence that polls which don't conduct Spanish-language interviews lowball Dem vote among Hispanics. (2/3)
http://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021533551
jerryster
(715 posts)Also, he said if he had included a Washington Post poll Obama's % chance to win would have gone up to 66%. He also wrote in a previous article that the only 2 Senate races he called incorrectly in 2010 had to do with underestimating the Hispanic vote in Colorado and Nevada.
I am still troubled by Romney's gains among independents and women. I don't get it but that's just me.
RedCloud
(9,230 posts)If the war on women, workers, gays, "Blacks", Latinos, students and the elderly (Did I miss any groups?) are exposed, it should be about 80% to 20%. I am fed up with just answering GOP crazy memes. Our turn to get our talking points aired.
mgardener
(1,816 posts)It matters.....
Vote like your life depends on it.
Please vote and take someone with you or give a ride to someone.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)Obama is way ahead of Rmoney.
progree
(10,908 posts)and ranged from 10 to 51.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)was smoking something.
In reporting this poll she said Obama was ahead by 3 but then went on to say something like Romney is ahead though in all the ten swing states, according to this same poll.
Where the hell did she get that? I didn't read that in the above article. As Stephanie Miller would say, "maybe she just pulled it out of her arse." Either that or I just heard the anchor wrong.
Of course this anchor isn't a very good one. My sister calls her Shrek's girlfriend. lol.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Today shows Romney's lead shrinking from 1.3% down to .1%. Because they use averages their impact is delayed. What it is just now starting to measure is the impact of the VP debate and a clear indication that voters thought Biden won that debate. RCP also shows Obama trending upward in Colorado and Pennsylvania and Romney trending upward in North Carolina.