A new Bloomberg National Poll released today gives President Obama a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney. According to the results, Obama's riding off The Republican nominee's weakness more than his own strengths.
Among likely voters, the survey shows Obama beating Romney, 53 percent to 40 percent, even though the public gave the president low marks when it comes to his handling the economy and the deficit.
Notably, 55 percent say Romney is out of touch (his references to "sport" so aren't helping), while 36 percent find Obama out of touch. Along with being more trusted to deal with world leaders, respondents to the poll also chose Obama as the person they would rather to sit next to on a plane.
— By Jessica Ferrer
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The more hot air romney blows, the more stances he dodges, the more he touts tax cuts for the rich, the worse he will do. Mindless small brained republicans will vote for him but anyone with an iq of more than 85 realizes you are not voting for romney you are voting for the republican agenda.
If cutting taxes on the rich cured society's problems then wed be whistling dixie out our, pardon me, vaginas.....
Just say No, to the War on Weed.... LEAP - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Obama/Biden 2012
Hello my name is Mitt Romney.Vote for me, I'll give you details after I'm elected.
(Go Obama) we need your leadership to get us out of the mess W left this country.
As we all know it took W 8 yrs to get us in this mess. And without any help from the republicans you have had a lot of success in turning things around in a little over 3 yrs.
Obama will win the next election. I have predicted every presidential election except on since Kennedy won. I predicted that Kennedy would win because Mayor Daily would deliver Illinois for Kennedy. I lived in Chicago Heights, Illinois at that time. If you look at only one variable, sincerity, it favors Obama. Obama come accross as sincere and Romney as deceitful. Therefor, sincerity makes all deeds beautiful and honorable. That is the main reason why Obama won in 2008 and he will win again in 2012 regardless what happens, except for some total catastrophy, but even then it may favor Obama. I don't gamble, but if I did I would bet on Obama. Several years ago my Aunt 92 in Coraopolis, Pa predicted that the Penguins would win the Stanly Cup. I predicted the Hurricanes. In the final the Penguins defeated the Hurricanes. I was wrong. I am wrong sometime, but most of the times I am right especially the Presidential Elction. Still we need to make sure all Democrats vote because sometime the fault if with the Democrats not voting. In NC where I now live the Evangelicals make sure they vote Republicans even if a dog were to run for president.
don't know where they get these poll numbers from... but in any case, why isn't MSNBC, Odonell talking about the most important issue today. the FAST AND FURIOUS scandal and coverup. This is HUGE!!! Obama just invoked presidential privilege on this. why?
what does he have to hide???
what happened to transparency???
Go watch Rachel on that one, Uncle Java-something... She's dissected the whole story, labeled all the parts and generally laid waste to the conspiracy and melodrama that FAUX Noise is trying to infect people with...
Here you go...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/
Click on those two videos at the left... And make sure you check out who Michael Vanderboeg is; he's featured on FAUX as an "On-line Journalist."
And if you hurry, you might be able to cash in before the market for tinfoil hats crashes...
You are having a heart attack over something a crazy blogger wrote that Fox news reported as some sort of fact that has no foundation in fact. This started over some crazy blogger. Obama has not signaled that any type of gun control ever was on his agenda. A blogger with no connections to anything of fact that Fox news brings on and calls an independent journalist. A blogger with no history or education in journalism, no inside track to government workings. lol. Watching Fox News and believing anything they put out is no different than believing the National Enquirer. I was abducted by an alien stuff.
Today's other polls
Gallup: Obama 45% - Romney 47%
Rasmussen: Obama 45% - Romney 47%
I guess you can always cherry pick the ONLY poll that shows Obama with a big lead but that really shouts that you are nothing more than a propagandist. Even the Huffington Post concludes this poll is more likely the one out of twenty that is statistically inaccurate. When the Huffington Post has more journalistic integrity than you, you know you are way left.
Gallup used to have a good reputation, but not any more.
Most young people have a cell phone but no land line, and they don't answer their phone when they don't know who is calling. Gallup does not count them accurately.
The Gallup organization is run by older people that don't know how the world has changed.
Gallup does count people over 50 correctly.
Yup, crackhead, I'll give you that! Of course, you realize that the over 50 crowd are the vast majority of the nations voters? We are talking the Baby Boom generation and the Greatest Generation here, who go to the polls, Not the generation X'ers, and with Obama girl now sitting this one out (or maybe even going over to become the Mitt Romney girl), why would the YouTube and Facebook crowd ever get out to vote this time around when their former ideal candidate of HOPE and CHANGE has shown himself to be first and formost a Chicago style politician with feet of clay?
every one knows its close obama has been a complete failure
How has Obama failed? Outside of the debt incurred in his first few months in office when he was enacting the work done by the Bush administration and the wars, he has added less Debt than any president going all the way back to Reagan, skipping Clinton who actually created a surplus, but at the same time sold our manufacturing off to China. He has helped pass the affordable care act, making sure children can have health care and that insurance companies can't just deny you coverage after paying your premiums because they want to keep that money. He has passed an act to help women get equal pay for equal work. He just made an executive order protecting children from being stolen from their families and deported, giving them a path to citizenship. He has supported equal rights for all, and done all this while a bunch of right wing mamby pamby babies did everything in their power to block him and take away your rights. He also tried to shut down Guanatanamo Bay prison but was met with so much resistance on the state levels and from the right that it became impossible to do so. There was no place to put them while they were investigated. List what you think he did wrong? lol
Even the W.H. does not believe this poll!
It's just one poll and others have a different read so I wouldn't get too excited just yet.
The congress of the state and federal government are the most powerful unions in the world. They vote their own wages, they vote their own pensions, they vote their own benefits, and they vote their own health insurance, ALL are the best, all are the most expensive, all are public employees, and all are at the government and taxpayer expense. Reducing their perks would go a long way at reducing the deficit and balancing the budget.
Bloomberg's pollsters must be smoking the weed product he wants to have legalized. They are really hallucinating here.
This poll is so out of whack with the recent ABC-Washington Post, Quinipiac, NBC-Wall Street Journal, and other reputable polls that have the difference down to 0 to 3%, and when the question is strictly on who is better to deal with the problems of the economy, Romney is leading rather smartly.
MSNBC has lost all journalistic integrity.
"Added less debt than any other president thru Reagan"? What are you smoking?$5 Trillion in just over 3 years? Oh, they like to lie with the statistic that his GROWTH rate of the debt year to year of his presidency is a steady number, but with the first year going over $1.6 trillion in debt with all the stimulus spending and patronage, especially to the unions and new federal workers hired from the ranks of Democrat Party supporters looking to get on the Obama administration gravy train, he has continued to spend at that rate each year, even without the new TARP transfers of $80 billion to the auto sector unions benefits, and the $800+ billion that went out to the direct transfer to the states for their maintaining there pre-2009 cash riche budgets from the housing boom (before the bust) swelled public employee roles, increased Medicaid dispursements to the states for one year increases in services that they would then have to maintain in future years by themselves, and the inefficient public works program spendings that were a waste of money and devolved into more aimless, inefficient deficit patronage spending only.
You do understand that without a budget in place during his 3 years now in office (going on 3&1/2) Obama and the Democrat controlled Senate controlled the spending levels each year, and each year, 2010, 2011, and now headed to September 30th, 2012 we are spending at the same rate as the runaway Bush passed Budget for fiscal year 2009, an Obama administration budget busting rate of deficit spending unequaled since World War II. By Labor Day, the Congressional Budget Office (non partisan) estimates we will be approaching going over the new National Debt limit (just set last year), as the deficit spending continues at the rate of $3.7 billion A DAY, or 40c on every dollar spent now. Obama's much ballyhooded millionaire tax (or the Buffet rule) would only raise an estimated $4.7 billion A YEAR, according to the CBO.
Get the picture now, sistahseen?
You can say that again!
MSNBC has lost all journalistic integrity. Please just report the news, don't make up the news.