A week after Mitt Romney’s strong debate performance, the polls reveal a changing landscape of tossup states. The Republican presidential nominee has gained on President Obama in battleground states, even placing a few firmly in his column, according to one influential pollster.
“In places like North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida, we’ve already painted those red,” David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday night. “We’re not polling any of those states again. We’re focusing on the remaining states.”
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Yesterday the U.S. State Department unequivocally tells the news media that there was NO INTELLIGENCE citing a Video as the cause of the Libyan embassy massacre. NO PROTESTS.---This is a massive COVERUP by Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. --Even though the State Dept. has its own intelligence department, the Administration is trying to blame this on "bad intelligence". --Right now State Dept officials are testifying to Congress under oath.---Don't expect the Globe's "Fact Check" to cover this. Boston Globe right now is LYING to the public by not covering this breaking story...THAT's why swing states are all going to Romney.
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Yes, the world-renowned Suffolk University polling center isn't bothering polling again in key swing states. Could that be because no one is paying them to do so? Seriously.... what a joke.
Why does the Globe give this so-called "institute" any ink? They are an obviously Republican, right-leaning institution. If the Heritage Foundation came out with a study or a poll, the Globe wouldn't bother with it because it is obviously partisan. Why waste our time -- and everyone elses -- with drivel from this one? Can we please focus on polling from non-partisan places?
By the way, REAL polling firms are calling Florida and Virginia toss-ups -- extremely close, within 2-3 percentage points. The Globe should be embarrassed they've printed this. Just because someone says something doesn't mean you have to report it. The Globe doesn't bother reporting on real news every day -- why waste our time with this?
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If middle class Americans, the elderly, veterans, and the working poor in those states believe Mutt will really create "12 million" jobs, close the deficit by giving more tax breaks to the wealthy (the old, self serving "trickle down" theory raises it's tired, worn out head), as well as get us back into Irag, and possibly Iran too (and not raise taxes to pay for it as his predecesor didn't do, thus leaving us with a huge credit card bill to pay), then so be it. There is no reckoning why people vote agianst their own self interest other than ignorance of the facts.
I would guess that Mitt can create 12 million jobs in less than two years without raising taxes. The markets are waiting to see a reduction in spending, NOT an increase in tax revenues. If Obama had wasted his $5 trillion on capital gains tax cuts instead of what he did waste it on, you would have essentially zero unemployment today. This isn't rocket science Democrats. This is basic economics Democrats, and you have failed miserably! You can't tax your way to prosperity. Obama has been threatening to do exactly that, and that is why you've had no new jobs in four years and why we are spinning our wheels going nowhere. You never put Democrats in charge of economics and the past four years should be all the evidence you need now if you weren't smart enough to understand it before....
The right-wing "The Suffolk University Political Research Center," favorite polling company of the conservative Pioneer Institute, knows something no other polling expert or company does. If this doesn't show their true colors I don't what does. I respect Pioneer. They are what they are and don't try to hide it. But this outfit like to disguise themselves as an objective, empirically-based research organization. They don't have the guts or integrity to be open about their bias. Their role is supply the stats that legitimize the right-wing agenda. They have now out done themselves and done themselves in. Let them reach whatever conclusion they want, but Suffolk University needs to release the data this conclusion is based on. University-sponsored research must be transparent.
Wah, wah, wah...read all the cry babies after me. The party's over people.
It's a little early for Suffolk to be calling the winners in at least Virginia and Florida, with four weeks to go until the election. Nate Silver, who aggregates all the polls, not just one, says that Obama has a 55.9% chance of winning Virginia (leaning Obama) and that Romney has a 54.5% chance of winning Florida (leaning Romney, but that only North Carolina is a lock, for Romney.
You were warned over a month ago that all the polls the Democrats were quoting were bogus. They were all pre-weighted for Democrats by 5-13 points. Now after Romney looked like a leader in the debate and Obama looked like an idiot in the debate, now even the phony polls can't hide the fact that Obama is losing. Obama has played the 'liar' card a month early. His campaign has nowhere to go but down from here, and Romney still has plenty of room to rise. You were lied to for over a month by those quoting phony polls. Some of us tried to warn you. When it is over, Obama will lose by almost as much as Jimmy Carter. And rightfully so. As dreadful and incompetent as Jimmy Carter was, Jimmy Carter was still ten times the president that the disaster Obama has been! And Jimmy was sent packing!