A new poll from the Pew Center for the People and the Press out today:
By a 52% to 37% margin, more voters say they have an unfavorable than favorable view of Mitt Romney. The poll, conducted prior to Romney’s recent overseas trip, represents the sixth consecutive survey over the past nine months in which his image has been in negative territory. While Romney’s personal favorability improved substantially between March and June – as Republican voters rallied behind him after the primary season ended – his image has again slipped over the past month. [Pols emphasis]Barack Obama’s image remains, by comparison, more positive – 50% offer a favorable assessment of the president, 45% an unfavorable one. Even so, Obama’s personal ratings are lower than most presidential candidates in recent elections…
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted July 16-26, 2012, among 2,508 adults, including 1,956 registered voters, finds that, in keeping with his favorability advantage, Obama continues to hold a sizable lead over Romney in the election contest. Currently, 51% say they support Obama or lean toward him, while 41% support or lean toward Romney.
Despite the ten-point lead that President Barack Obama enjoys in this poll, it’s a much closer 4-point race in the 12 battleground states Pew sampled separately–and the race in these states, including Colorado, has tightened since the last poll. This is consistent with other polls showing that the race is very close in states receiving the most attention from the two campaigns.
Which is just going to encourage them, folks.
Full story: Pew Research: Romney’s Unfavorables, Obama’s Lead Grow Nationally
Libertad says it’s the other way around!
Who ya gonna believe?
I haven’t disputed this poll.
I have said Dems are energized at 37%, down from 64%.
I have predicted that Romney wins CO 51.3% to 48.7%, but that turnout here will be driven by Obama super PAC cash and his performance or lack there of at the DU debate.
But you had one of your Razzy ones the other day with reversed results.
They put words in both of our mouths all the time.
They just repeat your words back to you.
The stronly approve/strongly disapprove delta for President Obama is -17, based on LVs.
This poll …
It was quite thoughtful for them to include over 1,900 registered voters in their 2,500 sample size. Heck maybe they even polled 25% or more Repubs and Unaffiliateds.
I’m staying home this November. No way we can win…
Romney’s week on INTRADE
Razzies showing Obama approval underwater that ‘tad posted.
And we never need to put words into your mouths. On the contrary, you have to construct new straw dogs for every argument.
Rassy has a strongly approve/strongly disapprove delta for President Obama of -17, based on LVs.
This poll is done daily and I believe it’s 500 LVs.
That’s got to make your day.
It looks like the Republican tactic of tanking the economy and then blaming the president is working. Republicans love the blame game almost as much as being victims.
Too bad your party sucks at governing and actually doing something to help the other 99% of our citizens but hey if your objective is pure partisan politics than reaching out and working together for the benefit of all of our citizens is unthinkable.
That’s a problem for you, not being able to answer a question withou someone from your party giving you the answer they want promulgated . . .
So, here’s your big chance ArapaGOP, no proddibg from your peanut gallery, what do you think about your Presidential candidate’s position on ending wind-energy credits?
And, please feel free to use you own words and thoughts to answer this one open-ended question.
So many bloggers here are bitter, but can you blame them? I guess they have every right to be extremely disappointed …. with what they were sold and the devastating results that Obama has delivered.
Just think about today’s unemployment…
* youths 60%
* blacks and latins in high teens
* women double the unemployment in Colorado
* western slope 15-20%
DPS graduation rate about 50%
Inflation up, incomes down
Abound, Vestas and Solyndra laying off employees as their stimulus $s finally dried up
…..and now we have the Colorado Health Exchange with $60-70M grants and plans for another $30M. Just think $100M for a stupid health exchange that three San Jose engineers and 5 low level healthcare administrators could do for $5M annually.
Its sad, really, I mean Mitt has run for president for what 12 years? And his own party can barely tolerate him. Every time he campaigns, the GOP strategists wring their hands.
And now, now, now they just don’t appreciate that the .01% really are the bestest and smartest and deserve to pay somewhere between 0%-14% in taxes because they ‘create’ jobs.
Sure, they may be in the Marianas or Malaysia, but Gandhi said all work is noble and who are we to question such a great man?
But yet the damn naysayers that hate success want to know things, want this great and rich and wealthy and flush man to answer questions! Answer questions? Since when do the .01% have to answer questions??? From “You People”? Bitter we are indeed. To put our royalty through such! They ought to be floating down the Thames in a Jubilee!
Other than A-BOT (who has been shilling for Romney from the start), I’m still waiting for any of the other cons to tell us what they like about him. You know, something that can’t be boiled down to “He’s a ‘pub and not Obama.” Something POSITIVE about the man.
And who needs a personal appearance from Mitt, when a wooden dummy looks and acts the same?
The more you dislike him.
Mitt the Twit takes on Colorado
Our horses can dance better than his horse
The Pew poll is really bad news for Republicans. In addition to the large lead (I’m inclined to call this an outlier based on other recent polls, but it’s still in line with other non-Rasmussen polls in the main…)
But worse is the subtext:
Favorable view among undecided voters for Romney: 18%. Favorable view among undecided voters for Obama: 33%. That’s a really crappy upside potential for Romney.
If history holds, Rasmussen will swing decidedly in Obama’s favor after the convention, when people start evaluating pollsters’ numbers for accuracy.
It’s not Rassy, so it is oversampling for Democrats! Only Rassy tells the truth! Four legs good, two legs bad!