Some really really really really bad news...for the Mittster.

[WilliamPitt]

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Some pollsters have started to notice that independent voters, who until recently were leaning toward Mitt Romney, may be trickling back toward President Obama with just days until the election.

A Zogby poll finds Obama has picked up five points among independents, perhaps because of how he has handled the federal response to Hurricane Sandy. Meanwhile the latest national Public Policy Polling tracking poll shows Obama turning a longtime disadvantage with independents into a 49% to 44% advantage. Furthermore, a new national ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll shows Obama and Romney deadlocked with independents, at 46% each, matching Obama's best showing among that group in that survey and coming after Romney had reached a high of 58% just a week and a half earlier.

Finally, the Politico/GWU tracking poll finds the two men essentially tied with independents just a week after Romney held a double-digit lead with them.

Link: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/04/are_indies_coming_back_to_obama.html

Links to each of those polls available at ^^^this^^^ link.



On edit: sorry for the "clever" original headline. Old, bad habits die hard.

Me --->

[cilla4progress]

1. i hate leads like these ...

[savebigbird]

2. I'm beginning to understand you veteran DU people...

...and your shocking subject lines.

[WilliamPitt]

3. OK, OK...I changed it.

[cilla4progress]

15. Thank you!

The nerves can only take so much at this point!

[calimary]

47. Welcome to DU, savebigbird! Yeah, some of us are incorrigible! };D

An arresting bunch, we are! Love us anyway!

Glad you're here! We need you! It's down to hours now. Let's win this thing!!!!!!








Now get to work.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. zogby was farthest outlier in final 08 poll.....15 polls:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/national.html

[Gabi Hayes]

7. that said, I fervently hope he's right

of course

worse than gwb, even?

yes

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Will...

I am your mother's age...

Please don't scare me like that!





And thank you for the good news, ya bastard!

[WilliamPitt]

11. Sorry.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. It's OK...........I was mostly kidding!

I hate to see you sad...

[calimary]

48. Several of us here are old enough to be your mother! };D

But as a writer, too, I know how stuff like that grabs people. It's good news! I like it when the bait-'n'-switch has the good part at the end. Very UN-wrongney-esque!

Thanks for posting the story, Will! Encouraging!!!

[Helen Reddy]

6. Good news!

I have said for months now (ad nauseum) President Obama will win by double digits. This "close" election is a crock.

Say it with me on Wednesday morning: ***President Obama***

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

12. The romnocalypse

will destroy the republickcon party, leaving only the tiny remnant of moderate, bipartisan republickcons to survive and be relevant.

[formercia]

21. Not many of the 'Greatest Generation' will make it to 2016

Look at the Demographics and all of the young people flocking to Obama.

This is the Election to bury the Troglodytes in Anvils, once and for all Time.

[LiberalElite]

26. Who are they?

all I ever hear about are the raving lunatics.

[mindfulNJ]

13. Either way he will still be President Obama on Wednesday morning...

but I get ya

[Helen Reddy]

14. Oh yeah!

Incidentally, love your screen name.

[mindfulNJ]

16. Thanks

I like yours too!

[winstars]

8. To quote Mark Halperin: (almost) Well, its bad news for Joe Scarborough!!! n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Thank you

for editing the subject 'cause there were some DUers flipping out like mad.

[WilliamPitt]

10. I noticed.

Bad me.

[Auntie Bush]

18. You're forgiven.

Do you have a headache yet?

[WilliamPitt]

19. That's not my head.

[lexw]

36. Glad I showed up too late to see that subject header

[progressivebydesign]

41. Interesting that if a newer DUer did the same thing people would call them filthy names. nt

[hue]

17. I hope it keeps rolling FORWARD!!

[shawn703]

20. Independents suddenly breaking for Obama?

Or have they always been in Obama's corner and with the "horse race" coming to a close the polls start to need to tell the truth to maintain credibility after the election?

[progressivebydesign]

42. Independents tend to be disgruntled Repubs and/or Libertarians.

So this is a very good thing. One of the reasons I always felt the pollsters were cooking the numbers is by oversampling Independents, which tend to be right leaning. They would give them 1/3 of the poll, even tho they aren't 1/3 of the voters. But the Independents breaking for the President is very good news, and is what pushed him to victory in 2008. So this is good news..

[humbled_opinion]

22. Couldn't get tickets

for McCormick Place but we are driving up to Chicago tomorrow night and staying over for the festivities and celebration on Tuesday night..... So excited... I couldn't go in 08 but planned vacation this year.... Lovin it...

[konamakai13]

23. Florida

Obama may win the election but I'll bet Mitt wins Florida. As a Florida resident in the Tampa Bay area, all that we see when we are out and about are Romney signs. Republican signs everywhere. It's depressing. There was just this feeling back in '08 that we in Florida seemed to be united in thoughtful change. Now I feel like everyone has reverted back and I am alone. I was proud to live in a blue state but I fear that we will go red. Yuck!

[WilliamPitt]

24. Welcome to DU!

This, too, shall pass.

[mountain grammy]

30. Colorado

I have the same concerns here. In the redneck county where I live, I expect to see more Rmoney signs, but in Denver it appears to be even.. very disturbing. My husband says Obama signs are constantly stolen. Hope he's right.

[trailmonkee]

25. did the old title just say

Some really really really really bad news??? without the mittster part?

[WilliamPitt]

28. Yes.

I suck.

On edit: It said "Some really really really really bad news..." with the dot dot dot, and then "For Mitt" in the post. I thought the dot dot dot was enough to announce the sarcasm. I was wrong.

[Zorra]

40. In other words, you Mitt Rolled DU?!?

"LOL! Tell Skinner he needs to ban him for that!"

[WilliamPitt]

46. ABSOLUTELY NOT.

There was no Rick Astley involved in the making of this thread.

[WillyT]

27. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[sarcasmo]

29. This explains why Queen Ann was crying yesterday.

[maryellen99]

34. I think she saw their final internal polling and knows they are going to lose

the Carter's knew they lost the 1980 election the final weekend when they saw the internal polling and Bush 41 broke down on AF1 when he saw his polling.

[sarcasmo]

35. Maybe Nate Silver gave her a call.

[bocaoma]

32. the facts...........http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57544827/taking-the-pulse-of-nate-silvers-n

if i hear brian williams tell me this race is a dead heat one more time, i'm gonna puke!

[donquijoterocket]

38. if

you feel that's inevitable track down B. Williams and regurgitate on him at least on his shoes.He's looking out for his job .They've got to have something to "report" on, even if,like Faux Noise, they have to imagine the most of it.I've yet to have a winger, or anybody, tell me which of the handful of mega-corporations, some multinational that own or control the majority of media are liberal and why.

[Nika]

33. This is wonderful news

let us hope this trend continues

[MannyGoldstein]

37. We'll keep the presidency, and pick up seats in the House

We'll have a majority in the Senate, but still not 60 votes.

We'll see what Reid does to fix the disastrous filibuster situation - although I personally think the Democrats *like* the fact that they can't do anything. We'll see... hopefully I'm wrong...

[locks]

39. Hang in there, mountain grammy

Our hope is as high as our mountains. Boulder grammy

[Rosa Luxemburg]

43. Things are looking pretty good

not as fabulous as 2008 but still we are good so far.

[DallasNE]

44. I Take A Lot Of These Polls With A Grain Of Salt

First, I don't believe we have wild swings like this this late in a campaign. Plus, they are not supported in the overall numbers, i.e., a 10 point move in independents would swing the overall number by more than 2 points.

Earlier we were seeing polls showing Obama with a 17 point lead with women, who are a majority of voters, but only a 3 point overall lead. Then we saw a poll that said Romney and Obama were even with women but at that time the overall swing was only 5 points.

Is it because the sampling size is too small or is it MSM skewing the results to support their damn horserace desire. Regardless, they provide plenty of reasons to take these things with a grain of salt.

[juajen]

45. Thanks for this. It's great news!

[Blue Owl]

49. I'm so depressed...

...I didn't see this news earlier!