As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepare for their first debate on Oct. 3, the issues at the top of the voters’ agenda have changed little since 2008. Fully 87% of registered voters say that the economy will be very important to their vote, while 83% say jobs will be […] Read more »
Swing-State Voters Trust Obama More to Address Medicare
Voters in 12 key election swing states trust President Barack Obama over challenger Mitt Romney to address issues facing the Medicare system, 50% to 44%. Obama holds a slightly larger advantage on this issue among voters nationally. … Swing-state voters are slightly more likely to believe Obama and Vice President […] Read more »
Growth in Latino enthusiasm and Democratic vote numbers
Week 5 of the ImpreMedia/Latino Decisions 2012 Tracking Poll reveals stabilizing numbers in the Presidential election, growing Latino support in the generic House ballot and—perhaps most importantly for Democratic prospects overall and most disheartening for Republicans—significant growth in Latino enthusiasm for the election. [cont.] Gary Segura, Latino Decisions Read more »
Romney Rules Rural As Obama’s Support Wanes
The nation’s smallest and most remote places are providing Mitt Romney’s biggest margins in battleground states as the 2012 presidential race enters its final weeks. In fact, rural counties are keeping Romney competitive in the states that are now up for grabs. That’s what a new bipartisan survey indicates. The […] Read more »
What’s Wrong With Pennsylvania?
On June 30, 2011, an enthusiastic Mitt Romney arrived here in the heart of the Lehigh Valley determined to make Pennsylvania a presidential battleground state. … A key assumption underpinned Romney’s appearance in Allentown — that the working class whites who once dominated this great industrial center would back the […] Read more »
Undecided voters: Who are they and how much do they matter?
Undecided voters are few, angry, and not particularly focused on the campaign, according to members of a roundtable discussion with CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley on “State of the Union.” [cont.] CNN Read more »