Obama takes lead in Gallup polling

[Liberal_in_LA]

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 Gallup’s 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 poll’s results.

The uptick for Obama started before the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding most parts of Obama’s 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 campaign’s repeated attacks on Romney’s 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 Gallup’s methods for analyzing its nightly surveys slightly under-represents the number of minority voters and, therefore, understates Obama’s 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]

1. Takes the lead in Gallup polling? We gave him an overwhelming victory and mandate in 2008.

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]

2. Obama won with 6 percentage points over McCain

[Motown_Johnny]

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[AnotherMcIntosh]

6. Plus he gave unemployment a top priority, prosecuted war criminals, prosecuted banksters,

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]

7. I'm convinced!

I'm voting for Romney now!

[demosincebirth]

10. What?? How did that get past me?

[Honeycombe8]

8. I'm glad, but...dismayed that so many people are standing by Romney. ??? nt

[mizzuz pibb]

9. Whooptie-frigging-do!

Free the NATO 5!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Kills bin Laden - people cheering outside of White House

Media: Thank torture, thank Bush. Obama? What did he have to do with it?