Weekly Standard has a wrap up of Rasmussen swing state polls. It looks good for Mitt Romney who has 269 electoral votes and Obama 243.
We’re a long way from November 6 (145 days for those who are keeping score at home), but Rasmussen’s latest polling of likely voters in states across the land shows Mitt Romney currently leading President Barack Obama in the quest for electoral votes. In fact, if the 9 key swing states were each to go according to Rasmussen’s latest polling, and if the 41 other states (plus Washington, D.C.) were each to go as they would be expected to go in a tight race, Obama would have 243 electoral votes and Romney 269 — enough for a tie (and an almost inevitable victory in the House of Representatives, where the 50 state delegations would each cast one vote to determine the president).
Among the 9 key swing states, Rasmussen’s polling shows Romney winning in Florida (46 to 45 percent), Ohio (46-44), Wisconsin (47-44), and Iowa (47-46). It shows Obama winning in Pennsylvania (47-41) and Nevada (52-44). It shows ties in Virginia (47-47) and Colorado (45-45). (Rasmussen hasn’t yet released any polling from New Hampshire.)
There’s 5 months to go, but this is a positive sign.
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If just Fla purges it’s rolls it’s over.
dont count on obama winning in pa…
and wow, is it early yet.
Damn, that’s (potentially) great news! I pray we can send this idiot back to Illinois next January!
Oops! Don’t forget North Carolina. RCP average; Romney up by 3.3 in NC
the problem with polls is they assume 0% fraud… for the love of God we have the DoJ suing a state for trying to remove dead voters from their registry. OK, I am an NYer, a Yankee if you please. Having said that, if the fed dose not back off we are going to live to see populist succession and it might not end peaceably.
mfhorn wrote:
I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks he should go elsewhere…so I guess Illinois will have to do.
@ Macker:
Yeah, I can think of places other than Illinois. Some of ‘em in Africa, some of ‘em in the M.E. Problem with M.E. is he’d have a chance to throw more hate at Israel in a place with plenty of people who’d give their lives to see that country eliminated.
Here’s why Romney will win easily, and I’ve said this here for MONTHS!!! Look at the polls. Obama cannot get above 50% in ANY OF THEM. The undecided, who are independents, will vote for Romney by about 80% to 20%. Romney will win by about what Obama beat that loser McCain by, about 7-8%.
BTW, NO FUCKIN’ WAY Obama wins Nevada. Not a chance!!!
Nevada has 14% unemployment, highest in the nation, and their housing market is, by far, the worst in the nation. No way Obama wins there. Not a chance.
269? We need on emore electoral vote. I’ll take anything thaty gets us to 270. This is bad news for the Obamessiah, though. Just a few weeks ago the MFM was trumpeting that it was almost impossible for Romney to get to 270. So much for that…
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
You are assuming that these Nevadans want to work.
I am using “you” in the plural here. I see a lot of wishful thinking out here on the Right, that unemployment hurts Obama. I disagree. There is a segment of the electorate, and it is growing, that just wants it all for free.
I go to a Mexican restaurant here in CO on my lunch hour every now and again. They run Spanish-language soap operas. Obama is hitting these stations hard… like he is hitting YouTube hard, and like he’s hitting any other station that boasts such an audience as prefers daytime TV and Youtube to job interviews.
That audience will tell pollsters and their neigbours that they’re just voting Obama because Obama cares, because his economic policies will help people like them get to work . . . some day. But deep down, they’re going to vote for Obama because he’ll ensure they don’t have to work too hard. Or at all.