2016 Postmortem
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ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: Favorability
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 6 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012
A Popularity High for Romney but Ditto for Obama
Mitt Romney reached his highest personal popularity of the election campaign among registered voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll but not by enough to lift his head above water, nor to surpass Barack Obama, who reached his own best favorability rating of the season.
Night-to-night data indicate a sizable boost for Romney, and drop for Obama, on Thursday night, a day after their first debate, which Romney widely is seen as having won. But both of those trends subsequently subsided in this poll, conducted Thursday through Sunday.
The net effect is slight at best. Romney is now seen favorably by 47 percent of registered voters overall, unfavorably by 51 percent; Obamas rating is better, 55-44 percent. Changes for both candidates from their pre-debate levels (Romney 44-49 percent, Obama 52-45 percent) are not statistically significant, given the surveys margin of sampling error.
Romneys 47 percent favorability is numerically the most in 18 ABC/Post polls since September 2011. But he remains underwater for the 13th time in those 18 surveys. (Hes been above water three times, not since January, and even twice.)
http://www.langerresearch.com/uploads/1127-45a1FavorabilityNo45a1.pdf
fugop
(1,828 posts)Ha. That Mitt and the 47 percent. He can't esacape that number.
Love that his favorability rose but he's still well underwater.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Pew was a single poll and it was front-end loaded, with 85% of the results in the immediate aftermath of the debate and only 15% during Sunday's Mitten's decline. And a lot of southerners and elderly. IOW, it was skewed and we were screwed. Let's not help them any more.