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Anyone saw this from ABCNews? Romney rises in favorability; Obama pushes back with Intensity (Original Post) Light63 Nov 2012 OP
Sure...(rolls eyes). The networks are just jockying for Tuesday night ratings now.... geckosfeet Nov 2012 #1
Yes, the media needs it to be "too close to call". Quantess Nov 2012 #2
But what did you see? Light63 Nov 2012 #3
This just shows how shoddy "reporting" is. Quantess Nov 2012 #4
But how could Freeper get the content? Light63 Nov 2012 #5
One consistent trendline since the first debate TroyD Nov 2012 #6

geckosfeet

(9,644 posts)
1. Sure...(rolls eyes). The networks are just jockying for Tuesday night ratings now....
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 08:09 AM
Nov 2012

Taking these money grubbing two faced lying hypocrites at their word is beyond foolishness.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
2. Yes, the media needs it to be "too close to call".
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 08:12 AM
Nov 2012

All it means is bitter disappointment for Obama haters on Tuesday night.

Light63

(233 posts)
3. But what did you see?
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 08:19 AM
Nov 2012

All I saw is the picture of Obama and Romney! No content whatsoever regarding the topic!

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
4. This just shows how shoddy "reporting" is.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 08:29 AM
Nov 2012

They want viewers on the edges of their seats, and to keep tuning in.
Obama "pushes back with intensity", okay, I'll buy that.
Romney "rises in favorability"... among his base, maybe? His favorability went up a point, or what?

Stay tuned for the cliffhanger!!!!!!!!!
/sarcasm


Light63

(233 posts)
5. But how could Freeper get the content?
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 08:33 AM
Nov 2012
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2954620/posts

After lagging for months at historic lows, Mitt Romney’s personal popularity has advanced in the final weekend to its highest of the 2012 campaign, rivaling Barack Obama’s. But Obama pushes back with greater enthusiasm among his supporters – and the race itself remains a tie.

Fifty-four percent of likely voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll express a favorable opinion of Obama overall, the most basic measure of a public figure’s popularity. Yet 53 percent now see Romney favorably – a majority, remarkably, for the first time.

It’s a dramatic gain for Romney, who emerged from the Republican primaries as the least popular major party candidate in polling back to 1984 and remained there up to the debates. Just 40 percent saw him favorably as recently as late August, and it was essentially no better, 44 percent, after the party conventions.

The presidential debates clearly helped him: Sixty-two percent of likely voters describe Romney’s performance in the debates as a factor in their vote, and those who do so are a broad 23 points more likely to see him favorably overall, 61 percent vs. 38 percent. Substantially fewer cite Obama’s handling of the response to Hurricane Sandy as a factor in their vote, 49 percent.

TroyD

(4,551 posts)
6. One consistent trendline since the first debate
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 09:07 AM
Nov 2012

Has been an increase in Romney's favorability. It's just a reality we have to deal with.

Perhaps it was the exposure and familiarity which helped him reduce his negative numbers, but he's much closer to Obama in favorability now than he was earlier in the year, and it's not just one poll that's showing this.

What's important though is that a lot of these same pollsters, such as this one, are showing Obama at 50% Approval.

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