Iowa poll: Obama has 4-percentage-point lead
A new poll of the battleground state of Iowa released on Saturday night by The Des Moines Register shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney by four percentage points among likely voters, 49 percent to 45 percent.
The poll is the latest in a series to show the president with an edge over the challenger in many of the crucial swing states less than six weeks before the election.
In a bit of bad news-good news for Romney, the poll found that many Iowa voters already have made up their minds, with only two percent identifying themselves as undecided. However, 10 percent said they could still be persuaded to vote for another candidate, offering a glimmer of hope for the Republican nominee.
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Romney has campaigned in Iowa six times since clinching the Republican nomination, but hasn't visited since Sept. 7, when he held a rally in the Northwest part of the state, a conservative stronghold. Obama made eight visits to the state ahead of early voting, which started last week.
Both campaigns are making a point to send surrogates in their place, blanketing the state with running mates and wives. Both Ann Romney and Michelle Obama have campaigned in Iowa in the past ten days. And Vice President Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will makes stops in the state in the upcoming week.
The latest Des Moines Register poll was conducted Sept. 23-26 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points among likely voters.
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He DOES, however, endorse income redistribution. In other words, creating jobs that actually pay a living wage.
After Obama wins this one, hopefully, the days of minority (white male) rule are over.
Oh. And btw, I'm WHITE MALE.
Think about it. In 2010 republicans campaigned for congress on creating jobs. But what did they do after gaining control of the house? They began the war on women, they cause America's credit rating to be downgraded, they refused to extend unemployment benefits, they refused to allow a vote on President Obama's job act.
They have created unnecessary voter I.D. laws at the state level to suppress the vote of likely Democratic voters. I could go on and on with numeous examples of how republicans have used they public office to benefit corporations, big oil, big pharma and the super rick over struggling Americans.
Bottom line republicans have shown they are incapable and unworthy of holding public office. Now it's up to voters to vote against them like they have voted against us.
The liberal media is now controlled by Arab petro-dollars. What's the relationship between Qatar Foundation and CNN? Moody's analysis cannot be accurate. Many non-partisans (who form the majority) and many non-committed voters are not prepared to tell what's in their minds. So it is too premature to forecast election results. Media predicted a thumping voctory for the iconic, handsome and vastly popular Dewey. But to the shock of all Truman won.
Face facts. The most accurate polls in the last election were only off by a small margin. Right now all of them give Obama the edge, given that they all put him ahead in the swing states.
And that guy Nathan Silver gives Obama a 83% likelihood chance of winning and he was amazingly accurate in all the Congressional races he picked.
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And Bigfoot. And we never landed on the Moon!
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Maybe because dubya just marked time in Afghanistan so he could go headhunting in Iraq instead?
You don't have as many casualties but you don't go anywhere either if you simply mark time.....
And what has Odumba done for you besides throw our money into the garbage and lower our morals. Give an answer please. HAHA you can't.
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Let's start with him winding down two unnecessary wars rather than starting two as dubya did.
And then we can move to stabilizing an economy that was in total freefall when he took the chair.
We can add returning diplomacy to the U.S. foreign policy.
The list goes on and on........
Too bad the first loser actually got elected.
Is not throwing money into the garbage at least morally preferable to lining the pockets of the 1%...who have already stolen so much?
And as for morals...you would actually choose a ne'er-do-well, draft-dodging cokehead like George W. Bush as a roll model?
A curious, but rather scary choice!
He shouldn't despair...
They can always eat that $70,000 dancing horse!
Not a single word about what Romney stands for (no surprise there since he, himself, doesn't know), just Obama-bashing.
And perhaps the funniest part about it is that they ALL have a big photo of Obama on them. So if you don't bother to read them (or the fine print about who sent them), you might well think they were for Obama.
Iowans, like the rest of Americans, are totally sick and tired of election crap (since it's been going on here for over a year) and particularly the RNC's kind of negative campaign, since they don't really have their own.
Ann Romney just announced that she's concerned about Mitt's "mental health" if he becomes President. So now it's not just Mitt sticking his foot in his mouth, it's his wife, too. And does anybody *really* think the foot-in-mouth problem is over?
Between the Romney's sabotaging his own campaign, the RNC not having the slightest idea of how to run a campaign, and the debates, Obama is going to carry the state of Iowa.