Two new polls show tightening prez race in Pa.
The presidential race in Pennsylvania is tightening, according to two new polls Monday. One has a 4-point lead for Obama - within the margin of error - and the other gives the president a 7-point lead over Mitt Romney, down 5 since September, but outside the margin.
Two new polls show tightening prez race in Pa.
Thomas Fitzgerald, Inquirer Politics Writer
President Obama's lead over Republican Mitt Romney has narrowed in Pennsylvania, according to a pair of new independent public-opinion surveys released Monday.
Obama leads 49 percent to 45 percent among likely voters, the Muhlenberg College/Morning Call poll finds, after those leaning toward one candidate or the other are factored into the equation. That is down from 51 percent to 40 percent in Muhlenberg's mid-September survey. Obama's lead was 49 percent to 42 percent in late September.
The Muhlenberg/Morning Call poll is based on telephone interviews with 438 likely Pennsylvania voters, conducted from are based on interviews with 438 likely voters in Pennsylvania, conducted from Oct. 10 through Sunday, and the results are subjec to a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
Meanwhile, the latest survey of the state from Public Policy Polling Monday finds that Obama's lead has shrunk by 5 percentage points over the last month but still has the president with a 51 percent to 44 percent advantage. (In the firm's September poll, Obama led 52 percent to 40 percent.)
PPP, a Democratic-leaning polling firm from North Carolina, conducted an automated-response survey by telephone of 500 likely Pennsyvlania voters from Friday through Sunday. Results are subject to an error margin of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Polls, schmolls.— CCRichards- PPD still has Obama up by 7. This paper has him up by 8. Get real. George Bush II doesn't stand a chance.
- This partisanship love affair is curious. The passion with which people defend their party's leader often turns to the embrace of demagoguery. Objectively, Obama has not been a good president and Romney, other than the debate, has not shown much. So it is hard to see a legitimate basis for such ardent support for one candidate in the face of such hate toward the other. The only change in the past 20 years is the hate is now expressed from the left, as well as the right.
— TR3 - There's nothing objective about what you said. Obama has not failed. This country IS better off than it was four years ago under Bush, and Romney offers nothing new, just more of the same.
- You notice it as well. "They" come here pretending to be objective independents with just a slight (but solid) edge for the Republican.
The decision is clear:
The wild, wild west of a John Wayne movie from an imaginary world of the 19th Century.
The forward direction of Franklin Roosevelt, loved by Rural America until July 2, 1964.
— Cuddles - Cuddles: Your selfrighteous post establishes my point about demagogurey. I am a registered Democrat who is disappointed by both parties. I don't share in your idoltry and see the gray between the two parties. — TR3
- Don't you find it ironic that you ignored the theme of the post and responded with a partisan love affair statement. Your post is nonresponsive and just party loyalty. You spew vitriol instead of looking at the big picture about how our two party system is flawed. You can go on and love Obama all you want and Republicans can love Romney, but to the rest of us, you are Home Depots vs Loews — TR3
- ps the second post is to Kilgore — TR3
@ ccRichards - I agree. However it IS interesting how after both debates, folks supporting the Obama/Biden ticket seem to be backtracking.
Obama is a fraud and Biden is just a juvenile bully (kind of like the fraternaty brother no one liked).— Professor1982- kind of like a bully who would pin a kid down and cut his hair off because he thought he was gay? no, that's right. that's mitt romney.
- Or like making a 50 thousand dollar bet like a petulant child when you're losing a debate? No, wait. That's Romney again too.
- I think Ohio goes D & it will comee down to Virginia.— Yankee Air Pirate 12
- ohio goes D and it comes down to Wisconsin holding firm and you are at 271. 275 with New Hampshire. read it and weep on the huff post.
- This comment has been deleted.— kingofpoker
- LoL...and yet you fail to acknowledge it was Romney's plan that Obama followed.
Moreover, that Obama's polices are killing the Middle Class:
1) Dodd Frank/Consumer Protection Bureau - no one can get mortgages or refinance
2) Volker Rule/BASEL rule - Raise requirements for banks taking much needed money off the street
3) Obamacare - Besides taking over $700B from seniors and medicare/caid, the Obamacare Tax represents the single largest increase in taxation since FDR
4) On and on and on....
BTW, lest we all forget it was Bill Clinton that repealed all of FDR's financial regulations in 1999. He could have easily vetoed it; however the campaign money he received from bankers was far to enticing.— Professor1982
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