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In reply to the discussion: Mitt Romney pulls ahead of Barack Obama 47 to 44 % in Reuters/IPSOS tracking poll [View all]oswaldactedalone
(3,490 posts)59. Obama's pitiful
debate showing overrode anything that happened afterward. He bombed in front of 60 million people and the other 260 million quickly found out. The impact of unemployment figures is essentially meaningless to voters after the enormity of Obama's loss.
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Mitt Romney pulls ahead of Barack Obama 47 to 44 % in Reuters/IPSOS tracking poll [View all]
villager
Oct 2012
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A Chicago Tribune piece on a different (parallel?) Reuters/Ipsos poll, evidently:
villager
Oct 2012
#2
Shoot, you're right -- I mixed up news about the two polls myself in a news feed
villager
Oct 2012
#9
What possible evidence could there be in thinking Americans could ever be that stupid!?
villager
Oct 2012
#12
Bullshit.They are prepping the field to steal another election.Gone so far as to say "no exit polls"
judesedit
Oct 2012
#27
All this "poll hysteria" with wildly fluctuating numbers that don't make sense...
AlbertCat
Oct 2012
#28
Exactly! Rasmussen gives Obama only a 1 point lead in Ohio, where others give him 6.
SunSeeker
Oct 2012
#34
Problem usually is this. They oversample "independents" who are almost always repugs.
progressivebydesign
Oct 2012
#35
My dear Democrats, and other President Obama supporters, STOP looking at polls,
ywcachieve
Oct 2012
#44
That's a national poll, where Romney is picking up more support in red states
vinny9698
Oct 2012
#63