Siena Poll finds Pa. up for grabs in prez race
New Poll by Siena College has Pa presidential race closing - 43 percent for Obama, 40 percent for Romney, with 12 percent undecided.
Siena Poll finds Pa. up for grabs in prez race
Thomas Fitzgerald, Inquirer Politics Writer
Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes seem up for grabs in a new Siena Research Institute Poll that shows a tight race, with President Obama leading Republican Mitt Romney 43 percent to 40 percent.
The Siena College survey finds 12 percnet of the state's voters undecided. It shows Romeny winning in the Philadelphia suburbs. "With a month and two more debates to go, Pennsylvania's direction on the road to the White House remains in doubt," said Don Levy, the poll director.
Obama is viewed favorably by 49 percent of the voters, to 44 percent who view the president unfavorably, while Romney's ratio is 40 percent favorable to 49 percent unfavorable, the poll finds.
Results are based on interviews with 545 likely voters between Oct. 1 and Oct. 5, and results are subject to a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
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by the way bad seed. king barrak appointed jeffrie imelt the ceo of GE as the jobs czar! which prompted him to close his bulb factories here and move them to china where they now make the little piggy light bulbs everyone loves so dearly! they cost about 6-7 times more than a regular bulb! how many jobs were lost to china on that one? you're so blinded by the second coming that you couldn't tell the difference between a real leader or a community organizer.— Ryne Duren- Willard can't win without Sesame Street! http://youtu.be/ZHDJxa-XIfc— Cornwall Citizen
- barry is in so much trouble he has to fudge the unemployment numbers now! after the debate he was so hammered he's getting down and dirty now! oh yea last week they found 450 K jobs they didn't missed somehow! what a laugh! you can't actually create jobs, so you just create them out of thin air! next thing you know they'll tell us that everybody that wants to work is working! and the sheep following the shepperd will follow gleefully swallowing the biggest phoney in the history of this country!— Ryne Duren
- t— Professor1982
- It's about time someone stood up to Big Bird and Sesame Street. No wonder Mitt Romney is improving in the polls with bold ideas like firing Big Bird. And I think people are starting to like Mitt Romney's plan to "broaden the tax base", which means making the 47% pay taxes, increasing taxes on the middle class, and cutting taxes for the top 1%.— pic man
- It's very likely that Matt Romney can pull this off. Another war in the Middle East, anyone ?????— Jon Corleone
- if you start seeing ads from the Romney campaign and visits to the state by both candidates then it's a race, otherwise this poll is just something to get ppl to click on and philly.com to use to sell ads. Jill biden and romneys 4th son visiting the state does not make it competitive.— workinwestphilly
- Forget this poll, Philadelphians will come out to vote for the SECOND time in their lives and once again vote blindly for their savior without thinking. great, USA!— 420Phillie
- If I were Obama, I would probably feel like the end is in sight, and I can concentrate on golf, speaking fees, a third autobiography and ...paying for Michelle's expensive vacations. Without all this tedious president stuff.— RichB
- This is an epic collapse of historical proportions.— D
- If Obama is so good; why is gas at 4 bucks, unemployment so high, illegal aliens getting a free pass and the deficit keeps growing. At best, Obama is graded at a D and needs to go back to Chicago with Rev Wright. Romney is the best of poor choices.— flatiron1972
The Democrats to include President Obama had better figure this out or else we will return to the Wild, wild west of a Ronald Reagan movie....which is far from the quality of John Wayne.
Even as I praise Governor Chris Christie and am more than secure in my politic, Obama blew it last week big time.— Cuddles- This comment has been deleted. — hannibal barca
- It's comical that Romney is the guy who says he'll straighten out our debt problem when he made most of his 250 million dollar fortune loading up companies with debt and then extracting million dollar fees from those same companies, in exchange for telling them who needs to be fired in order to finance the debt payments he saddled them with in the first place. He puts a small amount of his own money up and borrows the rest to take a controlling interest in a company. The company is left with the debt while he gets paid millions in management fees. The company now has two burdens it didn't have before he showed up. Now the company can fire workers and slash benefits to pay off its new obligations or it goes bankrupt. That sounds like a "real" job creator. Obama is only the lesser of two evils. We should stop voting for millionares(Romney,Obama, and most of Congress) and start voting for people who more identify with the working class. Money(lobbyists,Pacs..etc) needs to be taken out of politics but that will never happen until a revolution— GoingPostal10
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