Poll finds Romney gains in Wisc. and Fla., not Ohio
Republican Mitt Romney gets a small bounce in Florida and Wisconsin for his choice of Paul Ryan as running mate, per Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT. In Ohio, president's lead is unchanged.
Poll finds Romney gains in Wisc. and Fla., not Ohio
Thomas Fitzgerald, Inquirer Politics Writer
Republican Mitt Romney got a meager “bounce” from his choice of Paul Ryan as running mate, but the challenger has cut into President Obama’s lead in Florida and Wisconsin among likely voters, according to the new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll of swing states released Thursday.
The president maintains a 51 percent to 45 percent lead in the Big Enchilada battleground of Ohio, which is unchanged from the first edition of the survey released August 1.
In the new poll, Obama was at 49 percent, to Romney’s 46 percent, among likely voters in Florida. That compares to a 50 percent to 41 percent Obama lead earlier in the month.
And in Wisconsin, the horse race stands at 49 percent for Obama, to 47 percent for Romney, an improvement for the Republican from his 45 percent to 51 percent deficit in the August 1 survey. Ryan, the House budget chairman, represents a southeast Wisconsin congressional district.
By margins of more than 4-1, voters in each state say that the federal Medicare program of health-care for retirees is worth the cost, and six in 10 voters say they want to keep the current system in place. Ryan is most known for his budget proposal that would convert Medicare partly into a voucher-supported private insurance program.
“Gov. Mitt Romney’s pick of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate has made some small difference in Florida and Wisconsin, at least at this point, when voters in these three key states are asked about their presidential vote,” Peter A. Brown, assistant director of Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.
“Voters, however, see Ryan in a more favorable light than they do Vice President Joseph Biden. And when voters assess the two running mates’ qualifications to become president, Biden is only slightly ahead in Florida and Ohio and slightly behind the seven-term congressman in Wisconsin. In fact, Ryan’s qualified/unqualified ratio is better than Biden’s.”
Most voters agreed with Romney’s core contention that the federal government, under Obama, is trying to do too many things that ought to be left to the private sector.
The detailed results of the three-state poll can be found here.
- Prof: please sell your snake oil at Foxnews. I hear lot of morons watch that channel :-)
While you are at it, define the difference between "legitimate" and "forceable" ra$e. It may help Ryan to sell his snake oil budget, Medicare destruction, and social policies.— Seed - Seed...what's wrong? Don't like being exposed for the fraud you are? My facts are indisputable and verifiable unlike your rhetoric which is nothing more than typical liberal hot air.
— Professor1982 - BTW, let's stick to the debate of economics here since that is where you think you know what you're talking about. — Professor1982
- Professor, thank you for clarifying this. Now I understand that every time something goes tragically wrong during a Republican administration, it's actually the fault of a previous Democratic administration. Another good example would be Clinton's intiation of those two unprovoked wars in the middle east, which the liberal media like to blame on Bush. (Everybody wait for it, because we know it's coming: "If Clinton had gone after al Quaeda in Afghanistan there wouldn't have been a 9/11 attack and military intervention wouldn't have been considered.")
— 1980 - Not true at all. Prior to Obama, Regan represented the largest increae to the national deficit in history which was untenable and Lincoln represented massive illegal activity such as the suspension of Habeas Corpus and illegal war against the South and many other crimes which set up the massive "Federal" government we have today. Let's not be blinded by politics as both parties have issues. However one is more deviant than the other. — Professor1982
- BTW, the US still promotes Al Quada by its unilateral support of Saudi Arabia (Sunni), where most of the supposed terrorist came from, and by weaking Iran which is the arch-enemy of Al Queda. Clinton did fortunatly go after the Serbs in the Balkans. Either way, the Democrats are owned by the Fortune 1000 and Central Bank...specifically what Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson (both Democrats) warned against. — Professor1982
- "Unilateral support"? When did the USA become Saudia Arabia's sole ally? Or does the word "unilateral" mean something different to a Kaplan Univesity Ph.D. such as yourself? — 1980
- I'm not sure that either side is addressing what I would see as long term issues of income disparity, decaying infrastructure and need to demilitarize the economy. Obama did try to get more infrastructure money in operation but Congressional Republicans blocked that. Who among them is thinking beyond the next election? There is so little that is specific coming out of the Romney campaign. That may be a good get-elected strategy, but it doesn't help voters.— philapat
- Romney doesn't want the people to know what he is going to do because if they did he'd lose by a considetrable margin. But there is enough information to get the foundation of his plans: Continue and increase the tax cuts for the wealthy "job creators" which hasn't resulted in US jobs; turn medicare into a voucher program for anyone under 55; increase military spending; willingness to send troops in Syria and war against Iran; obviously believes in, and utilizes, the existing tax loopholes for offshore and Swiss accounts to lower tax liability of non-wage income; would support Ryans elimination of capital gains tax thus he would then have a effectivve rate of less than 1% while wage-earners would continue to pay at slightly lower than existing rates; wouldn't be suprised if he succumbed to recent Republican efforts to turn Social Security over to Wall Street. — ElecFact
- ElecFac, it's funny, isn't it, that there's this big need to continue to protect the "job creators" from tax parity, even though that's exactly what we've been doing for the last 10 years or more, and somehow they don't seem all that willing or able to create these mythical jobe we keep hearing about. The real aim is to create an impenetrable barrier between those who invest and those who work, in all aspects of life. Higher proportionate taxes, limited and more expensive access to health care, unaffordable higher education, little or no prospect for a secure retirement, etc. — 1980
- Would love to see our current wimpy, crying wealthy "job creators" and the corporations live in the times of Eisenhowern when the top tax rate for income over $400,000 was 87 - 91%.
Funny how with such a high tax on the "job creators" then the middle class exploded and wage earners knew that the country offered the next generation a better future.— ElecFact - The problem with Romney isn't that he refuses to detail his plans for governing. Romney's problem is that he apparently has no cores beliefs in anything. He has flip-flopped on every issue know to man during the past tens years - often more than once. There have been times, even in the past few weeks where he has said one thing to one group one day, something else the next day and then back to the same thing he said the first day. One thing about Romney has been consistent through the years - he knows how, and will push the envelope and use all available methods to increase his wealth, regardless if that means keeping his money offshore in the Caymans or in Swiss accounts, or during corporate takeovers at the expense of the companies wage-earners salary, pension, healthcare benefits, or even their jobs. See Romney's business experience goals has not to create jobs. His primary goal has been to increase the wealth of the investors regardless of the final outcome on the company and employees. This has been evident in his business dealings at Bain with companies like Dade Behring in 1998 & 1999 and others like Ampad, Stage Stores, GS Tech, Details and KB Toys.
Romney has no core beliefs.— ElecFact - Romney also apparently has a core belief in his Mormon religion and has given generous contributions to the church — ElecFact
Comment removed.- Romney totally awkward - when he walks, even pushing that market cart on TV, or carrying that bucket fromt he hardware store in New England, or trying to write on that white board's kindergarten chart.
Simply unbelieve. Someimes he walks like he got a load of ^%# in pants— ElecFact
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