(NBC/WSJ/Marist) Polls: Obama leads in N.H. (up 7 points), tighter in Nev., N.C.
By NBC's Domenico Montanaro
President Barack Obama leads Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, and the two are locked in tight contests in Nevada and North Carolina, according to a new series of NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls released Thursday.
Obama is ahead of Romney, 51 percent to 44 percent, among likely voters in New Hampshire. He also edges Romney in Nevada and North Carolina, but within the margin of error.
In Nevada, Obama gets the support of 49 percent of likely voters and Romney gets 47 percent. In North Carolina, it’s Obama at 48 percent and Romney at 46 percent. (Among registered voters in all three states, Obama’s lead expands to 8 points in New Hampshire, 4 points in North Carolina, and a wider 7 points in Nevada.)
“New Hampshire seems to be following the similar trends we’re seeing elsewhere,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, of the race in the Granite State, where Romney owns a home, and which borders Massachusetts, where the GOP nominee served a term as governor.
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give Mitt more data over which to whine.
When I was there, it was anti-tax anti-Dem anti-Librul anti-education anti-everything country. WTF HAPPENED? I know Shaheen had her time, but still. It's a red state in general. When and why is it considered blue now?
My wife was elected to a 3-year school board term. Everyone on the right derided her for being "A LIBERAL", "A TEACHER", and most importantly, "A PARENT"! Two years into her term, a guy who spent all of his campaign time telling people he would lower their taxes got elected by 13 votes (yes, 13) over a guy who didn't bother to campaign. The first thing he did was propose increasing the stipend for school board members. My wife (the liberal) was the only one of the five to vote against that move. We used the extra money to buy even more books from Scholastic (100 books for $99) for the elementary schools (3 of them, all dilapidated).
The loudest opponent of the school board was a rather, ahem, "substantially-sized" woman who was married to the richest guy in town. Their primary address was in a no-school lake area (meaning "no taxes"
. They kept a tiny "secondary" house in town so their kids could go to school. My view on it was, "The meeting's never over until the fat lady screams". She ran for school board and was soundly defeated. Her quote in the paper was, "I'll be back. Me and Patton." (It was MacArthur who said that).
Something must have radically changed in NH since we last lived there about 13 years ago. I don't know what, but it doesn't fit with my recollection of the region. On a side note, our midwife encouraged my wife to run (while pregnant). She gave birth to two of our three daughters and nursed them during meetings while serving her term. It was a thankless job and she decided not to run again. I agreed. The third was born a year later.
I guess times change.
