The Wheels Fall Off for Romney as Obama Leads with NASCAR Fans, 48%-41%

[Botany]

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Source: Politics USA

According to a new Zogby Poll the wheels are close to coming off the Romney campaign. President Obama leads Mitt Romney among NASCAR fans, 48%-41%.

The Zogby poll revealed that President Obama has a seven point lead over Mitt Romney among likely voters, 48%-41%, and even larger nine point lead when all candidates are included, 49%-40%. The real shocker is that the poll found the president doing very well with some traditionally thought of Republican voting blocs.

Obama leads in almost every region of the country, and only trailed Romney by six points in the South, 41%-47%. Among voters who shop at Wal-Mart on a weekly basis, Romney’s lead is within the poll’s 3.4% margin of error, 45%-42%. Obama leads with voters who are or who have a family member in the military, 54%-39%. Most surprisingly, Obama only trails Romney by seven points with those who consider themselves born again Christians, 40%-47%. The president also leads with NASCAR fans, 48%-41%.

Romney’s problems with NASCAR fans could go back to when he mocked them while attending the Daytona 500 this year. The New York Times reported Romney’s Daytona experience in the most classic of ways, “But the crowd initially booed Mr. Romney, who occasionally struck a discordant note, as when he approached a group of fans wearing plastic ponchos. ‘I like those fancy raincoats you bought,’ he said. ‘Really sprung for the big bucks.’ And when asked if he was a fan of the sport, he mentioned that ‘I have some great friends who are Nascar team owners.’”

Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/wheels-fall-romney-obama-leads-nascar-fans-48-41.html

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"I like your fancy raincoats."

[liberal N proud]

1. I bet Romney does better with the owners

[barnabas63]

12. +1 ..an ever-important vote too! nt

[Mopar151]

17. Maybe not....

1) A lot of these sponsors are consumer products 2)The whole sport, ultimately, runs on disposable income

[DURHAM D]

2. What happened to the important demographic known as soccer moms?

silly

[aquart]

15. They joined the keep-out-of-my-vagina moms.

The Republicans don't want to talk about them anymore.

[NYC_SKP]

3. His expression says, "Get me away from these people."

What a fuck.

[SWTORFanatic]

4. This sounds like an onion article. If true, stick a fork in Rmoney, he is done.

[Botany]

7. Not an onion article

Romney is even losing support among the old white voters too .....
guess taking social security & medicare away from seniors (thanx
Paul Ryan).

<The fact that President Obama is doing so well with born again voters isn’t much of a surprise. Romney has struggled to win over the South from day one of his campaign. It was the South that rejected Romney all through the Republican primary process and kept the candidacies of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum alive. Less than two weeks ago Reuters ran a story about Romney’s religion and his wealth. Romney has struggled to convince born again voters to support him, and a sizable percentage of them are supporting President Obama.

President Obama is leading Romney by large margins with Independents (46%-32%), Hispanics (68%-28%), African-Americans (93%-0%), and moderates (60%-26%). Romney needs to win big with men (Romney +5), seniors (Romney +3), and especially what has been traditionally thought of as the usually conservative Wal-Mart shopping (Romney +3), NASCAR watching voters (Obama +7). In this poll, Romney had no area of support large enough to offset Obama’s margins with other blocs of voters.

In short, things are bad for Romney.>

link @ O.P.

[lonestarnot]

5. OMG they made a left turn that is meaningful? You're kidding me! If this is true, mittwitt is

fucked.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. There were Reagan Democrats

Why not Obama Republicans?

[ahg]

8. Well, sheeeeeeit.

[MADem]

9. That's pure meanness--right up there with the "Did you buy these at 7 11."

‘I like those fancy raincoats you bought,’ he said. ‘Really sprung for the big bucks.’

"WTF is the matter with you NASCAR people?[ Why didn't they plan ahead and bring their Burberry or London Fog? And why isn't there a London Fog raincoat hawker at these venues? Harrrumph, Lovie...I've never seen such indignity in my life!!!"

[Botany]

11. Like it or not NASCAR has some of the most loyal and best fans of any sport

... in the country and @ any race you have 10s of thousands of people who have
planned for months to go to a race and it most be real hard on them for one of the
high points of their year to be damped by a cold rain. ANY POL in the world would
have said, "NASCAR is very lucky to have such wonderful fans who will sit through a
nasty rain to support their favorite drivers. You people are great."

I live around and work w/ lots of red necks and they can spot a phony in 2 seconds
and Mitt is as phony as can be and they also don't like being talked down to. A bet you
1/2 the people in the stands after Mitt dropped his "fancy raincoats" meme on them
cussed him out then and there.

[Mopar151]

18. Mitt's whole crew is totally tone-deaf

And the folks who cater to, and cultivate racin' fans are very much not (tone-deaf).

[SaveAmerica]

10. I hope you'll forgive me when I tell you the military numbers have me crying

Full on, I can't stop crying with those numbers. From the heart of someone whose husband has spent time in the Middle East I sincerely hope that we stay determined to GOTV for them (and other reasons/people!).

They know where the answer is to the end of all these deployments and I hope this is in response to an awareness of the programs this administration has put into place to help Veterans.

"Obama leads with voters who are or who have a family member in the military, 54%-39%"

[hueymahl]

13. This poll is true!

I live in the south, work and play with mostly conservatives, mostly republican, many NASCAR fans. Not a lot of love out there for Romney. Fewer trust him. Not saying a bunch are going to vote for Oboma, but you can count on a ton not voting at all.

[CanonRay]

14. I wonder if there is a Romney relative poll

to see if he even has a lead amongst his own kin.

[Blue Owl]

16. Nascar Dads for Obama, Deadbeat Dads for Romney

They are mostly from the red states after all.

[Mopar151]

20. Hobby racer here....

Rommney supporters are the neighbors who call the cops when you set the timing at 8 pm.

[IVoteDFL]

19. Not surprised, my dad is a NASCAR fan

They don't like Mittens for a myriad of reasons, not just his stupid raincoat slip up. He's too rich, and he's just too Mormon. Mitt thinks he is better than them, and they do not like that. Most of my dad's NASCAR friends are or were mechanics in some capacity in their lives. I've heard them say before that they can't trust a guy who looks like he's never had grease under his fingernails. Also going back to that "the people want a president they can have a beer with" this is especially true of NASCAR fans. They have beer every Sunday, my dad even switched his brand in accordance with his favorite driver once a few years back

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Locking as duplicate

of http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014242460