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On Sep 25, 2:22 pm, Sensuous Swami wrote:
> "NO ROMNEY FEARS
>
> IT'S FOUR MORE YEARS"
>
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> Whew!
>
> It's all over but the inauguration!
>
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> "Washington Post polls: Obama lead in Ohio, edge in Fla. hamper Romney
> path to victory"
>
> By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen
> Tuesday, September 25, 2012
>
> PRESIDENT Obama has grabbed a significant lead over Mitt Romney in
> Ohio and holds a slender edge in Florida, according to two new polls
> by The Washington Post, indicating that there are fresh hurdles in the
> way of the Republican challenger’s best route to victory in the
> Electoral College.
>
> Among likely voters, Obama is ahead of Romney in Ohio 52 percent to 44
> percent. In Florida, the president leads 51 percent to 47 percent, a
> numerical but not statistically significant edge. Among all registered
> Florida voters, Obama is ahead by nine percentage points.
>
> The new numbers come one week after a Washington Post poll in Virginia
> showed Obama with a clear lead there. More than half of all money
> spent in the campaign has focused on these three states, and many
> analysts say Romney has to win two of the three to capture the White
> House.
>
> The past few weeks have been difficult for the Romney’s campaign, and
> the GOP nominee’s advisers vowed to hit the reset button this week.
> But with the first debate scheduled Oct. 3, Romney is under new
> pressure to get his campaign refocused.
>
> The new polls add to the evidence that Obama has benefited most from
> the two parties’ conventions, a series of sharp, long-distance
> exchanges and a barrage of television ads. Nationally, polls continue
> to show a close race but with new-found momentum for Obama in the
> battleground states that are likely to decide the election.
>
> There are few plausible ways for Romney to win the election were he to
> lose both Florida and Ohio, and even losing one of them would make a
> path to victory exceedingly narrow. No Republican has won the White
> House without winning Ohio, and Florida, with its 29 electoral college
> delegates, may be even more vital to Romney’s hopes.
>
> Both campaigns had thought of Florida as potentially more hospitable
> to Romney than to the president. But Obama’s competitive standing
> there — benefiting, as he also did in the Virginia poll, from a huge
> lead among female voters — spotlights Romney’s recent struggles.
>
> For its part, Ohio has been the scene of hard-fought campaigns the
> past three elections and is widely seen as a barometer of economic
> stress. Obama’s lead in Ohio is built in part on generally positive
> assessments of his job performance and on head-to-head comparisons
> with Romney on a series of issues. Slightly more than half of all Ohio
> voters — 53 percent — give Obama positive marks for in dealing with
> the economy, with more — 56 percent approving of his overall
> performance.
>
> Fully 36 percent of all Ohio voters say they have been contacted by
> the Obama campaign; 29 percent say they have been contacted by the
> Romney side.
>
> Matched against Romney, 50 percent of all voters say they trust the
> president more to deal with the economy; 43 percent say so of his
> Republican challenger. By a much wider margin, 57 to 34 percent,
> registered voters in Ohio say Obama rather than Romney better
> understands the economic problems that people are facing. Obama also
> holds a big lead over Romney on who is trusted to advance the
> interests of the middle class.
>
> There is far less difference, however, in the confidence voters
> express about whether the economy would improve more rapidly under a
> second Obama administration or a Romney White House.
>
> The federal bailout of the automobile industry has been the focus of
> considerable debate between the candidates when they have touched down
> in Ohio. The poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Ohio voters say the
> loans that went to General Motors and Chrysler were mostly good for
> the state’s economy.
>
> Still, most voters in Ohio say the economy is in bad shape. Yet even
> those people do not entirely blame Obama, with just under half of them
> saying the bad economy is his fault — about the same as the number who
> point the finger at the state’s Republican governor, John Kasich.
>
> Just 38 percent of Ohio voters rate the state’s economy as “excellent”
> or “good.” Among those who do see things positively, most — 68 percent
> — give Obama at least some credit for it. Nearly as many — 59 percent
> — credit Kasich.
>
> In Ohio, Obama holds double-digit leads over Romney as the one earning
> more voter trust on five other issues, including Medicare, Medicaid,
> taxes, social issues and international affairs. He is numerically
> ahead on two others. Romney’s best issue is the federal budget
> deficit, where the two run about evenly among all voters and he has an
> apparent edge among those most likely to vote.
>
> As was the case in the Virginia poll, Obama benefits in both Florida
> and Ohio from sizable, double-digit advantages among female voters. In
> Ohio, male likely voters split about evenly between Obama and Romney.
> In Florida, 53 percent of men back Romney, and 45 percent support
> Obama.
>
> In both states, Romney has the edge among white voters, while Obama
> wins 91 percent of non-white likely voters in Ohio and 74 percent in
> Florida.
>
> Obama’s approval ratings in Florida, like those in Ohio, put him above
> the critical 50 percent threshold. Overall, 55 percent of Florida
> voters give him positive marks as president and 52 percent say they
> approve of his handling of the economy.
>
> One potential opportunity for Romney in the Sunshine State is that he
> runs about evenly with the president when it comes to who is trusted
> to handle the economy. But, by a whopping 60 to 35 percent margin,
> Florida voters say they trust Obama rather than Romney to advance the
> interests of the middle class. By 14 percentage points, they side with
> the president as the one with greater empathy toward people’s economic
> problems.
>
> The government’s health-care program for the elderly was the focus of
> sharp debate in the weeks after Romney selected Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.)
> as his vice presidential running mate. Today in Florida, the president
> runs 15 percentage points ahead of his challenger on whom voters would
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