Rasmussen Tracking: Romney Drops Below 40 Percent Against Obama

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Rasmussen Tracking: Romney Drops Below 40 Percent Against Obama

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may have had the best night on the debate stage in Arizona last night, but Thursday morning wasn't as great -- Romney dropped to 39 percent in Rasmussen's nightly tracking poll of a potential matchup between he and President Obama nationally. Obama got 49 percent, giving him a ten point lead. The Ras tracking numbers use 500 autodial interviews a night and average the results over three days.

As with any polling this cycle, the numbers have been extremely volatile. Romney was down only two points in the Rasmussen tracking data on Monday, and other polling has shown the race much closer.

Here's the TPM Poll Average of the matchup since the beignning of the year.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/rasmussen-tracking-romney-drops-below-40-percent-against

Election 2012: Virginia Presidential Election

President Obama now holds single-digit leads over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum in hypothetical matchups in the key battleground state of Virginia.

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Virginia Voters shows Obama drawing 49% support to Romney's 43%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate in the race, while three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

With Santorum as the Republican nominee, Obama holds a 51% to 43% lead. Five percent (5%) like some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided.

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[Fawke Em]

1. I, for one, hope the GOP keeps having debates!

Not only are they entertaining from a "trainwreck-like" prospective, but the remind the average American voter how batshit crazy the Republican Party has become.

[Scurrilous]

2. Good news.

Thanks ProSense.

[Inuca]

3. You beat me to it (of course :-)

I know it;'s early and a gazillion things can still happen between now and Nov., but still it feels good

[bayareaboy]

4. Please would some one throw a rope to the man ...

Attached to a Wiley-Coyote anvil.

[mwb970]

5. * Grammar Alert *

"Romney dropped to 39 percent in Rasmussen's nightly tracking poll of a potential matchup between he and President Obama nationally."

It's "between HIM and President Obama". "Between he" can never occur in a proper English language sentence.

(/GrammarAlert)

[Ishoutandscream2]

6. Yes, use an object pronoun in a prepositional phrase

Good job, mwb970.

[craigmatic]

8. that means he's really much lower that they want to admit

[Motown_Johnny]

10. I don't trust Rasmussen

They will keep Rmoney's numbers low now so that they can claim momentum and a big comeback later when they present better numbers for him once people start paying attention.

IMO it is all BS