Breaking down the release of today’s latest Purple Strategies “Purple Poll” of swing states including Colorado, where in line with previous results, a very close race is indicated:
Purple Predictor States: Obama holds slim leads in Virginia and Colorado, while Romney leads in Florida and has moved up in Ohio.Since our last poll, President Obama has improved his position in Virginia (49% to 46%, up 1 point from April) and Colorado (48% to 46%, tied at 47% in April). Mitt Romney has expanded his lead from 2 points to 4 in Florida (49% to 45%)…
We were a little confused to see this same Purple Strategies poll represented by Allison Sherry of the Denver paper today as evidence that GOP candidate Mitt Romney is “gaining on Obama in Colorado,” since this poll appears to show the opposite result. Sherry is erroneously comparing the latest Purple Strategies poll, with its unique methodology, to Public Policy Polling’s results showing a much bigger lead for Obama in April.
Without wading into the accuracy of either poll, we’d suggest to the normally spot-on Sherry that these trends are best understood by not introducing an apple into a series of oranges.
Full story: Obama Improves Slightly In Colorado In “Purple Poll”
Disappointing for Allison Sherry. Judging from the eagerness of Chuck Plunkett to retweet her misleading headline, I think I can guess who’s responsible.
Obama is still not ahead by any big margin. So what if she didn’t read the first poll. There will be a thousand polls. I’ll bet you the TRAJECTORY is right! Obama is failing.
Yes he is. I think even the Colorado Pols sheep are getting demoralized.
you would be wrong about that, loser.
Your political power is waning and your world view is poisonous. You and your ilk are about to be tossed in the dustbin of history.
You espouse hatred and discrimination. You support division and acrimony. You are an endangered specie… hence your panic.
Sooner or later, the arc of history will render you an irrelevent footnote in the history of excremental politics.
I just hope it happens while I am alive to see it…and gloat.
LOL: excremental politics. I could only find excrementitious. Both appropriate, however.
You do understand that millions of Americans repudiated the actions of the Obama administration and the congressional Democrats, in 2010, by giving the GOP a net gain of 65 seats in the House, which included defeating 52 Democratic incumbents, and electing the Republicans to six previously Democratc held seats, including toppling two incumbents?
You really think they are ready to embrace the Dems again?
I know you hate to admit it, but there is a lot of the 99% who are voting against the liberal agenda… and there is little reason not to believe that they won’t do it again in November.
What we really are at present is very evenly divided. And both sides support policies that are incompatible with other policies.
The big problem is that while the Democrats have shown a willingness to compromise, the Republicans in D.C. have not. And that has brought our usually sclerotic system to a complete standstill.
I’d be willing to give it a try.
… other than that you and Lib drink the same kool-aid.
That most writers here think Dems can do no wrong and all Republicans are evil. I don’t think any poll, or fact, could convince you otherwise. That’s why we have elections.
In 2010, voters, across the nation, saw fit to boot out boatloads of Congressional Democrats… and that wasn’t because they thought Obama and his party was doing a good job.
I think 2012 will show you the electorate is not finished. Like it or not, a majority of Americans really want Obamacare repealed and they are not happy about the economy.
Obama might be re-elected, but the country will never give him both houses of Congress again… just like they didn’t with Bill Clinton after two years of his presidency.
Republicons not only are not willing to compromise, they’ve actively sworn to bring down our duly elected government. From day one. July 20, 2009. Conley, Boener, Thune, Paul, DeMint, etc., etc., etc., and biggy Republican political operatives swore to obstruct and to defeat the new administration at every — every — turn. No matter what. National fiscal stability? Obstruct. Fair pay for women? Obstruct? National security? Obstruct. Executive appointments? Policies they supported just a few years previously? Defeat and obstruct. They’ve carried out their oath. To a man. Look at the record.
That’s not merely not a “willingness to compromise”. It’s near-treason against the American people and their democratically elected government.
And on the other side: millions. a lot.
Cute, RR, but the coming election will not be solely on Romney/ObamaCare. Nor was the last one. As for Rasmussen polls: what can I say?
By the way, where did you get those boxes — FedEx or the Big Brown?
Barbara Boxer, of course! ;-)
The mutual agreement society here at Pols has not been able to maintain that Obama mojo.
It really started to go down hill when Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace prize after doing nothing
but it really wasn’t Barack Obama’s fault he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It wasn’t like he campaigned for it. I suspect he was shocked — and a bit embarrassed — by being awarded the prestigious award shortly after being inaugurated president.
But teachers across the nation were mortified. All the times we’ve told our students that you actually need to do something before you start reaping honors, and then the Nobel Peace Prize Committee decides to award it to the president based on what he said he was going to do.
I cannot help but wonder what the members of that committee thought when Obama ordered the aerial bombings, in Libya, that didn’t even have congressional approval.
Proud as a fucking peacock.
Our rookie President needs to be sent down to single A.
for either of you to understand the worldwide sigh of relief that was breathed when George Bush departed Washington D.C.
Around the world, people understood that, had the Cheney/Rumsfeld military machine been allowed to continue its’ brutal occupation of one mid-east country after another, it would have eventually led to a much larger conflagration, pushing us inexorably toward disaster.
The candidacy and election of Barack Obama changed the course of history. The Nobel prize committee recognized a truth you cannot and will never see.
duke is right, the world breathed a sigh of relief. A former lover in Germany called me to say thank you “for saving America for the world”. It made me cry. I said “you’re welcom, glad to accomodate. When are you coming to see me”
Romney doesn’t win.
Put up or…smell the glove.
Your TRAJECTORY ! (What, no boldface?): Somebody dropped an apple into your orange basket, so now you’ve got more oranges? Count ‘em again.
Very disappointing, Allison.