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Poll: Real Clear Politics – General Elections Averages 4-17-12
Gallup daily tracking poll: Mitt Romney leads President Obama 47%-45%
Gallup has begun it’s presidential general election daily tracking poll for 2012.
At this point, at the start of the general election (now that Santorum has suspended his campaign Mitt Romney is the sure-to-be GOP candidate) Mitt Romney leads President Obama 47%-45%. Both candidates show 90% support from their respective parties.
From Gallup: “History shows that the candidates’ positioning in the spring of an election year is not necessarily good at forecasting the election outcomes. For example, in an April 20-22, 1992, Gallup poll, incumbent President George H.W. Bush was ahead with 41% of the vote, compared with 26% for Bill Clinton and 25% for Ross Perot. And in an April 11-14, 1980, poll, incumbent President Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan by 42% to 34%, with John Anderson receiving 18% support. Both Bush and Carter, of course, ultimately lost their re-election bids.”
UPDATE: President Barack Obama holds a nine-point lead over Romney in a new CNN/ORC International poll, thanks in part to the perception that the president is more likeable and more in touch with the problems facing women and middle class Americans.
According to the poll, 52% of registered voters say if the presidential election were held today, they would vote for the president, with 43% saying they would cast a ballot for Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is making his second bid for the White House.
Obama Administration will not be signing federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order
The Obama administration announced today that President Obama will not be signing an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity according to the Human Rights Campaign’s Joe Solmonese.
Metro Weekly reports: “Earlier today, we were told that the Administration is not ready to move forward with a federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order at this time,” Solmonese said. “We are extremely disappointed with this decision and will continue to advocate for an executive order from the president. The unfortunate truth is that hard-working Americans can be fired simply for being gay or transgender. Given the number of employees that would be covered by this executive order, it represents a critical step forward.”
The White House has endorsed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act — a bill to prohibit sexual orientation or gender identity-based workplace discrimination for most private employers.
Poll: President Obama leads Romney nationally 51%-44%
Obama campaign announces opposition to anti-gay Minnesota amendment
The Obama campaign has announced its opposition to the marriage amendment that will be on the November ballot in Minnesota that would restrict marriage only to opposite-sex couples there, echoing a theme from its earlier opposition to such an amendment in North Carolina that will appear on the May primary ballot.
According to a statement released today by Obama for America Minnesota Communications Director Kristin Sosanie, she said, “While the President does not weigh in on every single ballot measure in every state, the record is clear that the President has long opposed divisive and discriminatory efforts to deny rights and benefits to same sex couples.”
In the statement provided to Metro Weekly, she continued, “That’s what the Minnesota ballot initiative would do — it would single out and discriminate against committed gay and lesbian couples — and that’s why the President does not support it.”
The proposed Minnesota marriage amendment reads: “Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Minnesota.” Unlike the proposed North Carolina amendment, it does not address recognition of other relationships like civil unions or domestic partnerships. Same-sex couples cannot marry currently, however, in either state.
Mitt Romney hits President Obama for Harvard degee – except Romney has twice as many Harvard degrees
Speaking at his Pennsylvania campaign headquarters this morning, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama as out of touch for spending too much time at Harvard, where the president went to law school. “We have a president, who I think is is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps,” Romney said.
Unfortunately for Romney, his attack is undermined by the fact that the GOP presidential hopeful has twice as many degrees from Harvard as Obama. Romney earned a combined JD/MBA from the elite Cambridge, Massachusetts university. That means Romney spent an extra year at Harvard, getting the combined degree in four years, compared to Obama’s three for the JD alone.
Campaign Ad: Mitt Romney versus Reality
Facts can be inconvenient things, can’t they?
I recently had a long talk with someone explaining how politics is a game to so many of these folks like Mitt Romney who just make up things and say things to stir up their core constituents.
But eventually, we have to face facts Mitt. You can’t say President Obama did something when he didn’t. OR say he didn’t do something when he did.
This all catches up to you eventually Mitt.
Gallup poll: President Obama leads Romney in swing states 48%-39%
President Barack Obama has expanded his lead over Mitt Romney to nine points among independents in swing states, according to a recent Gallup poll.
The president now leads the former Massachusetts governor 48 percent to 39 percent. Among the same group in February, Obama lead Romney 49 percent to 43 percent.
“The movement toward Obama is essentially due to independents’ changing preferences, because Democrats’ and Republicans’ preferences have been highly stable,” Gallup said in a release accompanying the survey results.
The poll was taken between March 20th and 26th of voters in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Overall, the president leads Romney in those states 51 percent to 42 percent.
Independents and those swing states are the place to look kids. Don’t worry about California, New York, Texas or Tennessee – we know how those will go. Watch the swing states and the independents in those states.
Just saying….
US Auto Industry – that Romney would have let go bankrupt – sees strong March sales
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| Chrysler sales jumped 34% |
So – remember those American car companies that Mitt Romney says should have gone into bankruptcy? Those American car companies and all those American jobs? How about this:
The Big Three U.S. automakers all reported strong March sales, as buyers flocked to dealerships in numbers not seen in years to buy everything from fuel-efficient small cars to large pickups.
Chrysler reported its best month in four years, selling 163,381 cars and trucks in the month, up 34% from a year earlier, and its best results since March 2008. Sales were roughly in line with analyst forecasts for the company.
Chrysler, which four years ago had no models that got 30 miles per gallon or more on the highway, now has six models that top that fuel-efficiency benchmark. Those six models accounted for 29% of its March sales. And that’s before what is expected to be its hottest-selling fuel-efficient model, the Dodge Dart, reaches dealers in June.
President Obama backed the American worker. And he was right. We kept good jobs in the US and it’s helping the economy. Plus a lot of the cars purchased were more fuel-efficient models. Better for the environment.
See how this is all starting to add up as a good thing?
BUT – Mitt Romney says we are headed in the wrong direction. Remember that Detroit.
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Gallup poll: President Obama leading Romney 49%-45%
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