Poll: Romney losing home state of MI 47 to 37

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A new poll indicates President Barack Obama holding a double digit lead over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the state. According to an EPIC/MRA survey, 47% of likely voters in Michigan support the president, with 37% backing Romney and 16% unsure.

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Poll: Obama 47%-Romney 37% in Michigan – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

No, and no surprise to anyone actually paying attention. Detroit and Michigan in general is the recipient of quite a bit of government largesse right now. They don't want that to end so they kiss ass. They're that desparate.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 47% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns 46% of the vote. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.

This is the first time in a week that Romney has held even a single-point advantage. See daily tracking history. Romney is now supported by 18% of white Democrats.

Romney has solidified the GOP vote and holds a 77-point lead among Republicans. That’s slightly larger than Obama’s 72-point advantage among Democrats.

When “leaners” are included, it’s Romney 49% and Obama 47%. Leaners are those who initially indicate no preference for either candidate but express a preference for one of them in a follow-up question.

Perhaps most significantly, Republicans are once again more engaged in the election than Democrats. Forty-nine percent (49%) of GOP voters are following the race on a daily basis. Among Democrats, just 42% are that interested. Throughout 2012, Republicans have consistently held the enthusiasm advantage. However, for a few days following the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, the president’s party caught up to the GOP on this important measure of potential turnout.

Matchup results are updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update).

Romney has edged back into the lead in Missouri. In the Missouri Senate race, incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill continues to lead Republican Congressman Todd Akin.

Fifty-three percent (53%) of voters now believe the auto bailouts were snip...

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™

avusbluem5 said:

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Poll: Obama 47%-Romney 37% in Michigan – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

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Posting a poll from a Democratic leaning source, which admittedly lists 16% of the respondents as unsure, reporting a 10% lead for Obama, when clearly 47% is fairly close to the number that Barack Obama averages in most polls, where 37% is 8-10% lower than most polls have Romney at is just plain irresponsible...

Also, reporting MI as Mitt Romney's home state is also irresponsible. First off, Mitt Romney was born and raised there... but for 18 years. When Romney was 18, he went off to Stanford in CA. He then went off to France for 2 and a half years on his mission. Then when returning he moved off to Utah to go to BYU. Following his education at BYU, he moved to MA to attend Harvard. Upon graduation, Romney stayed in MA pursuing a business career. Romney stayed in MA for 28 years as a businessman, before going back to Utah, to rescue the Salt Lake City Olympics. He then returned and became Governor of MA. He additionally has homes in CA, and NH. While he was born in MI, he spent the majority of his life in MA, and more of his adult life in UT than MI. The truth is Mitt Romney is not of a single home state. Where we have seen Obama craft many policies particularly benefiting Chicago area factors, Mitt Romney would be an open minded president, representative of the entire country, not one select region. To me, that's a plus in his book.

More to the point though... both MI and MA have long standing traditions of heavy support for Democrats. Expecting Mitt Romney to win either would be insane. The fact that MI is even in play at this point shows the validity of Mitt Romney's candidacy and Barack Obama's failures. This is the state where Obama supposedly saved GM... if that's the case, why doesn't he have much more of a concensus of support there?

Just to put this in the appropriate perspective... the very same organization which put this poll out, had an entirely different breakdown 2 weeks ago...

2012 Michigan President: Romney vs. Obama

On 8/29 they released a poll from 8/28 of 1200 LV that had Obama 49 Romney 46 Undecided 5%...

Now on 9/13 they put out a poll taked from 9/8 to 9/11 of 600 LV with Obama 47 Romney 37 (no undecided... but 16% "unsure")...

So in a sample size half as large Obama lost 2% Romney lost 9%, and the "unsure"/undecided" grew by 11% odd how that works... care to guess which way the "unsure" voters would lean?

Why the change in option of undecided to "unsure"? Why half the size and taken over a longer peiod?

Either way... Pollster has an Obama lead of 4, despite that the last 2 polls taken were slanted toward Obama... in the only state where someone claims he saved an industry of theirs... that's not good...

BTW Obama won MI 57-40 in 2008... that's 17% it's now down to 4%...

Kerry beat Bush by 4%
Gore beat Bush by 5%
Clinton beat Dole by 13% (Perot taking 9% of that)
Clinton beat Bush by 7% (Perot getting 20%)

The last time MI went Republican was with Bush over Dukakis in 88... 24 years ago... largely based on Reagan's success and Dukakis' ineptitude...

Now the romtards are making up imaginary poll numbers. The lies just keep coming. Instead of adjusting for his failures Romney just doubles down and keeps on losing. in a couple more months romney might just turn this into a landslide for obama. He should write a book called what not to do in a presidential election and just show his entire campaign.

Most people who want jobs have vacated large portions of Michigan. Obama promises free money. People living on free money will vote for him.

avusbluem5 said:

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Poll: Obama 47%-Romney 37% in Michigan – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

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How did CNN determine that this was a poll of likely voters? No where in the poll are the respondents asked if they are even registered and the poll does not describe the respondents as either registered or likely voters. It looks like more disinformation from the msm. Trying to suppress the Romney vote by making it appear that Obama has a big lead.

jerry7 said:

How did CNN determine that this was a poll of likely voters? No where in the poll are the respondents asked if they are even registered and the poll does not describe the respondents as either registered or likely voters. It looks like more disinformation from the msm. Trying to suppress the Romney vote by making it appear that Obama has a big lead.

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The pollster, EPIC-MRA described the poll as being of likely voters. RealClearPolitics also has it down under likely voters. I see no reason to believe either are wrong/lying.

How's Flip-Flop Romney doing in his other 2 homestates, California and Massachusetts?

avusbluem5 said:

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That is not his home state.. he might have been born there, but legally his home state is Massachusetts since that is where he votes, despite not owning a home there or having lived there for half a decade... which could be illegal and he could have done voter fraud in 2010... will he never learn? He already screwed up when he got elected to governor and we now know he lied then... oh well. Or is it California, where he has his home with that fancy car elevator.. according to his wife that is their home and has been for years.

Regardless.. he is loosing all 3. Plus Ryan looks like he will loose his home state as well.