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Old 05-19-2012, 12:15 PM
 
Location: Texas
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http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_upload...onToplines.pdf

Romney 46%, Obama 42%

Even though, when we look at the party ID breakdown...

45% Democrat/lean Democrat

37% Republican/lean Republican

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Old 05-19-2012, 04:24 PM
 
Location: Greater Washington, DC
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Interesting findings:
When describing the candidates, Americans describe both candidates as "intelligent" above anything else, followed by "religious" for Romney and "arrogant" for Obama. Obama is considered more exciting and inspiring though

People are not very confident in Romney's chances even though they're going to vote for him. Less than 30% think he has more than a 50/50 chance of victory. I'd rather be in that position than in one where we are confident and complacent though!

More people think the Democratic Party has moved farther to the left than think the Republican Party has moved farther to the right. And yet so many on the left act like its common knowledge that the GOP has moved to the far right. Maybe we're not the ones making the ideological move after all...
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Old 05-19-2012, 05:02 PM
 
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But remember, the amount of Democrats is greater than that of Republicans in the gneral public.
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Old 05-19-2012, 05:04 PM
 
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Interesting findings:
When describing the candidates, Americans describe both candidates as "intelligent" above anything else, followed by "religious" for Romney and "arrogant" for Obama. Obama is considered more exciting and inspiring though

People are not very confident in Romney's chances even though they're going to vote for him. Less than 30% think he has more than a 50/50 chance of victory. I'd rather be in that position than in one where we are confident and complacent though!

More people think the Democratic Party has moved farther to the left than think the Republican Party has moved farther to the right. And yet so many on the left act like its common knowledge that the GOP has moved to the far right. Maybe we're not the ones making the ideological move after all...
Good summary!
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Old 05-19-2012, 06:31 PM
 
Location: Texas
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But remember, the amount of Democrats is greater than that of Republicans in the gneral public.
They do not have an 8% advantage. They only had a 7% advantage in 2008...which was basically a perfect year for Democrats.

In fairness, though, when you look at this poll...there is only a 6% difference between Democrats and Republicans when you take out the people who said they "lean Democrat" or "lean Republican." That being said, Democrats don't have a 6% advantage at this point.
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Old 05-29-2012, 12:32 AM
 
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Nevertheless, they're in really deep trouble in too many ways to mention.
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