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Obama takes lead in Gallup polling
For the first time since April, President Obama has opened up a sustained lead over Republican Mitt Romney in Gallups daily tracking poll of the presidential race.
Obama leads Romney 48%-44% in the poll, marking the sixth consecutive day in which the poll has showed him with a small, but statistically meaningful lead. The shift comes after almost two months in which the two candidates were essentially tied in the polls results.
The uptick for Obama started before the Supreme Courts ruling upholding most parts of Obamas healthcare ruling. The ruling, itself, does not appear to have had an impact on the shape of the race. Democratic strategists believe that the Obama campaigns repeated attacks on Romneys business record, particularly the involvement of his company, Bain Capital, in offshoring of jobs, has begun to connect with voters.
The results are particularly notable because many polling analysts believe that Gallups methods for analyzing its nightly surveys slightly under-represents the number of minority voters and, therefore, understates Obamas support by a couple of points.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-takes-lead-in-gallup-polling-20120703,0,5553243.story
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)If he has not consistently maintained a lead in Gallup polls, it is because he threw the mandate away.
He can have a lead in the Gallup polls anytime that he wants. All he has to do is make sufficient sounds to act like a liberal or progressive.
emulatorloo
(45,516 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)ended the endless wars and war profiteering, veteod the Bush-tax cuts for the super-rich, stopped the police from attacking peaceful protestors exercising their First Amendment rights, stopped the TSA-gropers, and stopped negotiating the pending wage-lowering, let's-send-more-jobs-to-foreign-countries "free-trade" agreement.
railsback
(1,881 posts)I'm voting for Romney now!
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Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)mizzuz pibb
(14 posts)Free the NATO 5!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Media: Thank torture, thank Bush. Obama? What did he have to do with it?