A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of Swing States, completed Monday night, shows Romney lagging President Obama by only 2 percentage points, 48%-46%, well within the survey’s margin of error and a point closer than their contest last month. … The survey also finds more voters open to changing their minds […] Read more »
NBC/WSJ poll: Obama leads Romney nationally by 5 points
Fueled by increased optimism about the economy and nation’s direction, President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney by 5 points among likely voters and now sees his job-approval rating reaching the 50 percent threshold for the first time since March, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The survey […] Read more »
Obama Convention Bounce Fades
The latest Gallup tracking data show that Barack Obama now leads Mitt Romney by one percentage point, 47% to 46% among registered voters, where the race was on Aug. 31-Sept. 3, before the Democratic Convention began. … It appears now that the Democratic convention was successful in boosting Obama’s standing […] Read more »
Romney Has Support Among Lowest Income Voters
Although President Barack Obama has a substantial voting edge over Republican Mitt Romney among low-income Americans, Romney still gets about a third of the vote among those whose household incomes are less than $24,000 a year. Although Romney does better on the other end of the income scale, Obama gets […] Read more »
Pollsters Agree: Romney Needs Something to Happen
… This election is still quite close and could go either way, but Romney badly needs something to happen to change the trajectory of this race. If things remain as they are today, he loses. [cont.] Charlie Cook Read more »
Optimism in Obama presidency increases
The percentage of voters believing that the country is better off since Barack Obama became president jumped seven points after the two political conventions, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Thirty-eight percent of registered voters now say the nation is better off, which is up from 31 […] Read more »