2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRutgers N.J. Poll: Obama leads Romney by 14 points
As the Republican National Convention begins in Tampa, New Jersey voters give President Barack Obama a 14-point lead over former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, according to a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. Among likely voters polled just before the GOP convention, 51 percent say they would vote for Obama while 37 percent support Romney. Another 6 percent prefer someone else, and 5 percent are not sure.
"The president leads in New Jersey primarily because of his personal qualities, said David Redlawsk, director of the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll and professor of political science at Rutgers University. Voters like him better and feel he shares their values and cares about them. While Romney keeps it closer on the hard issue of the economy, and wins easily on leadership, voters generally prefer to support someone they like over someone they dont.
Results are from a poll of 916 registered New Jersey voters conducted with both landline and cell phone households Aug. 23-25; 710 respondents are identified as likely voters and are the focus of this release. The likely voter sample has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points.
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Yet the GOP wants to talk about losing issues such as a woman's right to chose, contraception legality, and civil rights.
TroyD
(4,551 posts)Hopefully it will make Mr. Christie mad.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)Romney is easily winning on Leadership because
Guess Pres. Obama kills Bin Laden,
and Mitt Romney lies about everything like a real leader should?
What is wrong with the American people? We couldnt be that mad-dog crazy, could we?
TroyD
(4,551 posts)Obama wins on foreign policy in most polls.