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Monday, October 8, 2012

2012 Romney Gets His Bump

Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:35 AM

All the aggression and lying he unleashed during the debate did something...

Mitt Romney remains in a considerably stronger polling position than he was before last Wednesday’s debate in Denver. But the polls released on Sunday did not tell quite as optimistic a story for him as those in the debate’s immediate aftermath.

The four national tracking polls as published on Sunday were largely unchanged from their Saturday releases. Mr. Romney maintained a 2-point lead in the Rasmussen Reports tracking poll, but President Obama’s lead held at 2 points in an online poll published by Ipsos and at 3 points in the Gallup tracking poll. In the RAND Corporation’s online tracking poll, which lists its results to the decimal place, Mr. Obama’s lead declined incrementally, to 3.9 percentage points from 4.4 on Saturday.

However, the bump will mostly likely be flattened by Friday's solid job report. No amount of huffing and puffing can blow those numbers numbers down.

Companies added an average 121,000 workers a month in the third quarter, up from 88,000 in the second quarter, according to Labor Department figures released on Oct. 5. Total payrolls, including government, increased an average 146,000 a month, compared with 67,000 in the prior period.
“We’re not seeing a further loss of momentum, and that’s a very important positive,” said Bruce Kasman, chief economist for JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York.

Seeing that the economic picture is not grim, Romney has decided to kick up a lot of some foreign affairs dust.

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But all of this is a dead end. Americans clearly do not want more war.

Here is another thing: Romney has consistently been at or just below 47 in national polls.

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Good Morning Charles,
I believe I mentioned my sentiments regarding the debate performance/job report last week in a posting of yours. I'll leave it at that.

What did intrigue me was this piece of news on an Einstein letter for sale at a cool $3 million:

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld…

Somehow I thought about you when I read it. His candor and reasoning is quite fascinating. However, he also is somewhat contradictory. I really like this last sentence:

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"

Posted by lark on October 8, 2012 at 9:10 AM

So, what are Mysterio's policies today? Are his tax cuts for the wealthy back on his menu? Is he for a national health care plan today? Or is that his scheduled change for tomorrow? People want to know! So that they can get ready for him to change his mind again.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on October 8, 2012 at 9:12 AM

Apparently those polls that were so biased before the debate suddenly are not biased at all!

Posted by bigyaz on October 8, 2012 at 9:25 AM

Love that last paragraph.

Posted by Patricia Kayden on October 8, 2012 at 11:29 AM

Great piece in the Guardian about the effect of US sanctions and the US public's ignorance thereof. Might be morally superior to send drones.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…

Posted by biffp on October 8, 2012 at 2:54 PM