After Conventions, Follow the Bouncing Poll Numbers
After a summer in which the polling in the presidential race was exceptionally stable — with Barack Obama generally holding a lead of about two percentage points in national surveys — the numbers since the party conventions have been a wild ride. … Polling data is often very noisy, and […] Read more »
Pew Research poll bombshell: Romney leads by 4 points
The highly-respected Pew Research organization has published a poll – and it’s a shocker: Mitt Romney leads President Obama 49% to 45% among likely voters. This is one of Romney’s few – and certainly largest – national leads in a non-Rasmussen poll this year. The headline result on its own […] Read more »
Key to Victory? Who Has Best Ground Game
… With exactly four weeks to go before Election Day, the presidential race is close and seems destined to remain so. Any thoughts that President Barack Obama would run away with it likely were put to rest by Republican Mitt Romney’s strong performance in last week’s debate. And in a […] Read more »
8 takeaways from the new Pew poll
The latest Pew poll showing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney ahead of President Obama among likely voters has the potential to rapidly re-orient conventional wisdom about the challenger’s chances of winning. … While the topline numbers in the Pew survey are sexy — politically speaking, of course — and will […] Read more »
Romney’s Strong Debate Performance Erases Obama’s Lead
Mitt Romney no longer trails Barack Obama in the Pew Research Center’s presidential election polling. By about three-to-one, voters say Romney did a better job than Obama in the Oct. 3 debate, and the Republican is now better regarded on most personal dimensions and on most issues than he was […] Read more »