Hispanic voters continue to say they prefer President Obama by wide margins over Republican nominee Mitt Romney amid signs that the race is tightening among the broader electorate, according to new data in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll. Obama leads Romney 70 percent to 25 percent among likely Latino […] Read more »
The South Isn’t Responsible For Obama’s Weak National Poll Numbers
Last week, Gallup released a demographic breakdown of its likely voter survey, which at that time found Romney leading by 4 points, 50-46. But it found that Romney’s biggest gains were in just one region: the South, where Romney held a massive 22-point lead. Perhaps predictably, this aroused latent liberal […] Read more »
Midwestern Blue-Collar Whites Could Be Obama’s Last Line of Defense
An array of new national and battleground state polling underscores the critical role that working-class white voters in the upper Midwest are playing as perhaps the last line of defense for President Obama in an election that continues to tilt slightly against him. [cont.] Ron Brownstein, National Journal Read more »
Latino voters highly engaged in presidential election, support for Obama rises
The impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll latest results reveal a high level of interest and engagement by Latino voters in the upcoming congressional and presidential elections. … One of the most interesting electoral stories over the last two weeks may be that while the overall national polls show Romney making noticeable […] Read more »
Religiously unaffiliated less likely to vote
The recent boom in religiously unaffiliated Americans may ultimately help explain the results of the upcoming 2012 presidential election, according to a new poll that shows such voters lean heavily toward President Obama but are less likely than the religiously affiliated to turn out. [cont.] Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post Read more »
The Undisclosed Mitt Romney
Early in the general election campaign, Mitt Romney made it clear that he was not going to disclose the details of his plans before voters cast their ballots. … With the candidates running neck-and-neck 2 weeks before Election Day, Romney has no choice but to walk a tightrope on either […] Read more »