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Title: Obama Leads Romney in Poll of Florida, Ohio and Virginia
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Bloomberg
URL Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print ... florida-ohio-and-virginia.html
Published: Sep 14, 2012
Author: Jonathan D. Salant
Post Date: 2012-09-14 10:54:07 by Brian S
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Continuing his post-convention bounce in surveys, President Barack Obama led Republican rival Mitt Romney in three key swing states, Florida, Ohio and Virginia, in a poll released yesterday. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist College survey of likely voters gave Obama a 49 percent to 44 percent edge over Romney in both Florida and Virginia, and a 50 percent to 43 percent edge in Ohio, which a Republican has never won the White House without carrying. “We’re seeing the effects of the Democratic convention in these numbers and we’ll see whether he’s able to sustain it,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, New York. The survey was released on the same day Romney campaigned in Virginia, criticizing Obama’s handling of the attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts in the Middle East, one of which led to the deaths of four Americans in Libya. “As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we are at the mercy of events instead of shaping events,” Romney said. Obama, campaigning in Colorado yesterday, has enjoyed rising poll numbers since last week’s Democratic National Convention. Likely voters in all three battleground states were polled Sept. 9-11, after the Democrats returned from their gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina. Handling Economy By 51 percent to 46 percent, likely voters in Florida said they had a favorable rather than an unfavorable impression of Obama. They also viewed Romney favorably by 47 percent to 45 percent, and said he would do a better job than Obama handling the economy by 47 percent to 46 percent. In Ohio, 51 percent of likely voters had a favorable impression of Obama while 44 percent were unfavorable; Romney was viewed as unfavorable by 50 percent and favorable by 40 percent. They favored Obama over Romney on handling the economy by 48 percent to 44 percent. Likely voters in Virginia had a favorable impression of Obama by 53 percent to 43 percent unfavorable, and a favorable impression of Romney by 46 percent to 45 percent. They split, 45 percent to 45 percent, on which candidate would better handle the economy, The surveys of 980 likely voters in Florida, 979 in Ohio and 996 in Virginia all had margins of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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Carter - mondale - gore led in the polls too ! The dem bridge to the 21st century collapses !
bucketnutz I live in central Florida and you cannot find anyone who will admit to voting for Obam the first time much less this time unless you are on a college campus or the projects,,and that is not the majority of Florida voters. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern ... ucial-Swing-States-of-Virginia
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