There is a lot of news about the election out there. For Republicans, it seems to span from bad to worse, that is if you don’t look closer. Here’s a closer look and a question: Who should feel good now, and who should not?
Several polls have Barack Obama ahead by anywhere from 2 points to 10 points. That would tend to make Democrats feel good. But there is a problem with the polls. To various degrees, they over-poll Democrats (some saying 52.2 % of all voters will be Democrats), under-poll Republicans (some using just 24% Republicans) and almost totally ignore Independents (some using 9.1% Independents).
Gallup has reported that Republicans are 16 points more enthusiastic to vote than Democrats, 64/48. Who should feel good?
Over Labor Day weekend, when he was sure few people would see it, Rasmussen announced his findings of registered voters, saying there are 37.6% Republicans , 33.3% Democrats and 30% Independents. In 2010, Republicans had a 1.3 point registration edge, and we won 63 seats in Congress. So who should feel good?
Third Way, a liberal group, has announced its analysis of voter rolls across the country and found Democrat registration uniformly down with steep drops in Ohio (490,000), Florida (4.5%), Iowa (9. 5%), and New Hampshire (19.5%)! Who should feel good?
Barack Obama is not winning any group he lost, doing better with any group he did win, or improving with any group he lost (he lost veterans by 11% and trails now by 24%) . Who should feel good?
There are two polls showing Obama winning Catholics. There are two showing Romney winning Catholics. To believe Obama is winning Catholics, we must accept that 4 years ago when Obama not only was not threatening Catholic religious freedoms, but Catholic Bishops were supporting him, Obama won Catholics by 6 points; but now that he is threatening Catholic beliefs and Catholic Bishops oppose him, Obama is really doing better with Catholics? (Give me a break!) One poll showed Obama getting just 27% support from Catholics, and another showed Mitt Romney at 51% with Catholics. No Democrat has ever lost Catholics and won anyway. Who should feel good?
Never in history have black ministers told their congregation NOT to vote; yet today, some are. A few are even advising people to vote for Romney. Who should feel good?
Turning on Obama, Univision is running stories on how Fast and Furious killed Hispanics. This type of attack against a Democrat, especially this late, means that Univision, a main source of information for Hispanics, is actively trying to hurt Obama. This never happens. Who should feel good?
If we had an honest media, they would ask both men why Republicans are so much more enthused to vote than Democrats. Romney would smile as he answered, and Obama would stammer. Who should feel good?
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DON”T believe the polls….and GET OUT AND VOTE !!!!
Let the battle begin. Intelligent voters against morons. Truth vs. Lies. Honesty vs. Deception. Romney will win and becomes the 45th President of the United States of America.
Hey, Coach, I love the way you always seem to put a rosy positive spin to issues such as these. My pessimistic nature will cause me to fear the wannabe dictator’s ability to destroy our once great nation until he is removed from the presidency. I hope and pray you are right and that these phony pollsters and the phony in the tank for Obama “journalists” end up so discredited after this is all over that they never recover.
I’ve said this before but it is worth repeating. A poll will say whatever the poll taker wants it to say. Only three conditions are necessary.
1. Word the question in a way to obtain the desired response. Has anyone noticed none of the polls mentioned in this article reported the question used in the poll?
2. Know who to ask. Poll takers know demographics better than the US Census Bureau. This article showed the polls were biased towards Democrats.
3. Word the results in a favorable manner. That makes sense.
The following poll actually occured. In the early 1990s senior citizens ONLY were asked the question “Do you believe Congress should balance the federal budget by suspending cost-of-living raises for social security recipients for the next ten years?” Who wouldn’t say “NO” to that stupid question? However, the results of the poll were reported as “Vast majority of Americans oppose balanced budget!” No mention of who was polled or how the budget was to be balanced.
The only two reliable polls at this time are Zogby and Rasmussen. First, they poll thousands of people, not just a few hundred like the others. They report the EXACT question used in the poll, the EXACT demographics of those polled, and report some of the responses word for word. Zogby and Rasmussen produce honest, reliable information. That might explain why we do not see many polls by them.
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America or obama this November! You can’t choose both!
Great article, it covered off the Catholic’s, the Black’s and the Hispanic’s, however it left out a large voting block, specifically the Jew’s, so i would add, “The way that Obama treated Prime Minister Netanyahu from Israel, and the way that Obama treats Jews in general,who should feel good”.
Obama has absolutely no chance, in you know where, to win this election other than by possibly stealing it as he has before, in 2008, similar to the way that clown Al Franken, won the Senate seat in Minnesota. I fear that if he soon begins to realize that he might not win, he will declare Martial Law and cancel the presidential election. Why else would he having given himself that power, if he had no intention of holding on to that power if and when he needed to do so?