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Gallup tracking poll shows Mitt Romney with small lead over President Obama
AP file photoLikely GOP nominee Mitt Romney on the campaign trail earlier this year. Polling data released this week by Gallup show Republican challenger and Michigan native Mitt Romney leading President Barack Obama 47-45. This report, based on interviews with 2,265 registered voters between April 11 -- the day Rick Santorum dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination -- and Monday. Gallup says it will release tracking numbers on a five-day basis between now and the election in November. The results are within the poll's three-point margin of error and show each candidate with 90 percent support from voters who identify with his respective party. Here's Gallup's analysis of what the numbers mean: History shows that the candidates' positioning in the spring of an election year [...]
Memeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs
I don’t watch sports, but every four years, I lose myself in the horse race of the U.S. presidential elections. That competition kicked off in earnest Monday, as Gallup started its daily tracking polls for the general election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. In 2008, I was hooked on one drug for my daily fix: Memeorandum, a completely automated aggregator that surfaces popular stories from political news sites, often within minutes. As you’d expect, the universe of political blogs is largely split in two, with conservative and liberal blogs rarely covering the same stories or linking to the same sites. But it can be very challenging to tell their political leanings at a glance, especially with names like “Balloon Juice,” “Weasel Zippers,” or “The Volokh [...]
Gallup daily tracking poll: Romney 48, Obama 43
Yesterday, the Gallup daily tracking poll showed Mitt Romney with a smidgen of a lead over Barack Obama — and a CNN poll showed Barack Obama with a sizable lead over Mitt Romney. Gallup has more good news for Romney, though. The daily tracker shows Romney’s support up by one and Obama’s support down by two, widening Romney’s lead from a mere two points to a full five. As Allah pointed out in his comprehensive coverage of yesterday’s two conflicting polls, though, it’s a toss-up as to whether we should cover polls closely at all at this point. The election is a full six months away and so much is bound to change between now and then. Yet, it can’t be entirely insignificant that Romney has led the incumbent two days in a row, according to Gallup. Still, relevant qualifications [...]
Gallup Shocker: Romney Up Five Over Obama
So, how's that War on Women working out for you? Row faster, Mainstream Media! Faster! There are all kinds of polls out there, but except for a single outlier, even in polls that show Obama ahead of Romney, the President is still stuck in the mid-forties -- the last place any incumbent wants to be. Today, Gallup's daily tracking poll gives the White House and Obama's Media Palace Guards another reason to gulp: Romney 48% Obama 43% More bad news for Obama is that his challenger is already romantically close to that magic 50% number. The bad news for us is that if these polls continue to show Obama in serious trouble, the media is going to absolutely freak out and start their salting-the-earth crusade early. Ben Smith and company might have already gotten started [...]
Romney Has 2-Point Lead Over Obama As Gallup ‘Tracking Poll’ Begins
For those who can't get enough of polls about the presidential election, Gallup has fired up its "daily tracking" survey that will follow the levels of support for President Obama and presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Enlarge Steven Senne/AP Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday in Boston. [...]
Why the presidential race is going to be closer than you think
The dominant narrative since the beginning of 2012 has been that President Obama has regained his footing after a rocky 2011 and is trending upward. Ask 10 political types who will win in November, and eight of them (or so) will say Obama. Romney takes the stage at Alpha Graphics in Hartford, Conn., on April 11. But, like all conventional wisdom, it’s only true until it changes. And, on Monday, a new poll came out that provided at least a hint that the CW might be in for a shift. In Gallup’s first tracking poll of the general election, Romney took 47 percent to Obama’s 45 percent nationally.Both men won 90 percent of their self-identified partisans, with Romney’s overall margin coming from his six-point edge among independent voters.Before we go any further, it’s worth [...]
Source: Trump to Endorse Romney
Source: Trump to Endorse Romney Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump will endorse Mitt Romney for president Thursday, sources with knowledge of the endorsement told CNN. Trump, who has repeatedly flirted with the possibility of his own White House bid, will make the announcement in Las Vegas two days before the Nevada caucuses. News of Trump's endorsement of the Republican front-runner came as the GOP candidates stumped for votes in Nevada -- which holds its caucuses Saturday -- and Romney continued to wrestle with fallout from a CNN interview in which the former Massachusetts governor said he wasn't "concerned about the very poor." via Sources: Trump to endorse Romney Donald Trump Set To Endorse Mitt Romney In Las Vegas ABC News’ Michael Falcone reports: Donald [...]
Breaking: Santorum WON Iowa by 34 votes
THE RESULTS: Santorum finished ahead by 34 votes MISSING DATA: 8 precincts’ numbers will never be certified PARTY VERDICT: GOP official says, ‘It’s a split decision’ Rick Santorum – Final total: 29,839 Change: -168 Mitt Romney – Final total: 29,805 Change: -210 It’s a tie for the ages. There are too many holes in the certified totals from the Iowa caucuses to know for certain who won, but Rick Santorum wound up with a 34-vote advantage. Results from eight precincts are missing — any of which could hold an advantage for Mitt Romney — and will never be recovered and certified, Republican Party of Iowa officials told The Des Moines Register on Wednesday. via REGISTER EXCLUSIVE: 2012 GOP caucus count unresolved | Iowa Caucuses. Rick Santorum [...]
Breaking: Credible Terror Threat for 9/11 Anniversary
Three Sources are reporting that there is a credible threat of a terror event on Anniversary of 9/11 Federal authorities have come across what they believe may be a credible threat to the U.S. homeland surrounding the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, several sources tell Fox News. The threat would target New York City or Washington, D.C., sources said. Authorities have obtained what they believe is information on possible suspects tied to central Al Qaeda, but they have not necessarily determined names of possible suspects. "As we know from the intelligence gathered from the raid, Al Qaeda has shown an interest in important dates and anniversaries, such as 9/11," Department of Homeland Security spokesman Matt Chandler said in a statement. "In this instance, it's [...]
