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Subscribe to RSSAccording to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, President Barack Obama has large leads among women, Hispanics and independents and is viewed as being more in touch with the middle class, but Mitt Romney is seen as more likely to have "good ideas for how to improve the economy." NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
With the Republican presidential primary season essentially over and with the general election campaign now under way, President Barack Obama begins the race with a six-point lead over presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Obama’s advantage is fueled by his traditionally strong-standing among African Americans, Latinos and young voters, as well as with women and even political independents. What’s more, he’s viewed – by substantial margins – as more likeable, compassionate and better for the middle class than Romney.
Click here for a copy of the polling results (pdf)
But the poll also shows that the president’s biggest weakness – the economy – is also Romney’s strength. And with Republicans beginning to rally around the former Massachusetts governor and with the GOP especially enthusiastic about November’s election, the race has the potential to be close, the NBC/WSJ pollsters say.
Related: NBC/WSJ poll: Romney's image improves but remains a net-negative
President Barack Obama; Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
“You are projecting a very, very close campaign,” said Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart.
“It is going to look like 2004 or 2000,” Hart added, referring to George W. Bush’s extremely narrow victories in those two presidential contests. “There are plenty of things that suggest it has a long, long way to go.”
Amy Sancetta / AP
President Obama reaches out to shake hands with Lorain County Community College student Bronson Harwood after speaking at the college in Elyria, Ohio.
Obama running strong with his base and key swing groups
This week featured a flurry of national polls that showed varying results: A CNN poll had Obama up by nine; the Pew Research Center had the president up four; a New York Times/CBS poll had it even; and the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll currently has Romney up by five.
But in this NBC/WSJ poll, Obama leads Romney among registered voters, 49 percent to 43 percent – a margin that has been fairly consistent in the survey since the beginning of the year; the president led Romney in March, 50 percent to 44 percent.
Looking inside these numbers, the president holds an advantage with African Americans (90 percent to 4 percent), Latinos (69 percent to 22 percent) voters ages 18-34 (60 percent to 34 percent) and women (53 percent to 41 percent).
In addition, he edges Romney among key swing groups like independents (44 percent to 34 percent), Midwest voters (47 percent to 44 percent) and suburban women (48 percent to 45 percent).
Meanwhile, Romney is ahead among whites (52 percent to 40 percent), suburban voters (49 percent to 44 percent) and those expressing high interest in the election (49 percent to 46 percent).
In measuring key attributes and qualities, Obama also enjoys significant leads on being easygoing and likeable (54 percent to 18 percent); on caring about average people (52 percent to 22 percent); on dealing with issues of concern to women (49 percent to 21 percent); and on looking out for the middle class (48 percent to 27 percent).
He’s also ahead of Romney when it comes to being knowledgeable and experienced about the presidency (45 percent to 30 percent), being a good commander-in-chief (43 percent to 33 percent), being consistent and standing up for his beliefs (41 percent to 30 percent), and being honest and straightforward (37 percent to 30 percent).
Jae C. Hong / AP
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney meets with a group of Pittsburgh-area residents in Bethel Park, Pa.
Romney’s economic edge
But Romney’s advantage comes on what will probably be the No. 1 issue in the fall: the economy.
By a 40-34 percent margin, respondents believe Romney would be better when it comes to having good ideas for improving the economy. And Romney also edges Obama on changing "business as usual" in Washington.
Thirty-eight percent think the economy will improve within the next year, 19 percent say it will get worse and 42 percent believe it will stay the same.
Those numbers – which come after a disappointing March jobs report, which showed the unemployment rate declining to 8.2 percent but which also showed the economy adding a less-than-expected 120,000 jobs – are fairly consistent with the findings from January and March.
Obama’s economic improvement
Just 45 percent approve of the president’s handling of the economy, which is unchanged from March.
But that standing is an improvement from the summer and fall of 2011, when his economic handling was below 40 percent.
Obama’s overall job-approval rating stands at 49 percent – which, not surprisingly, matches his ballot-test percentage against Romney. (His percentage also is similar to the job-approval numbers of what the last two incumbents who won-re-election, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, had in the NBC/WSJ poll at this same point in the race.)
Two new polls show the 2012 general election matchup remains close. On the subject of the economy, Mitt Romney is beating President Barack Obama. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank discuss, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad talk about the polls and explain why Obama continues to push the narrative that Romney is out-of-touch with the American people.
In addition, a plurality – 36 percent – believes the president’s policies have helped U.S. economic conditions, while 33 percent say they’ve hurt the economy. Thirty percent say they haven’t made a difference.
That’s a big change from last year, when only about 20 percent said Obama’s policies had helped the economy.
And those percentages are matched pretty evenly against a Republican: 37 percent say a GOP candidate winning the presidency would help the economy, 28 percent say he would hurt it and 31 percent said it wouldn't make a difference.
“The president is in better shape than he was” in 2011, says Hart, the Democratic pollster.
Testing the economic messages
What also seems to be in better shape is Obama’s economic messaging.
More than three-quarters of respondents (including nearly 70 percent of independents and Republicans) say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who “will fight for balance and fairness and encourage the investments needed to grow our economy and strengthen the middle class,” which has become a standard line for Obama.
In addition, seven in 10 say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who “says America is better off when everyone gets a fair shot, does their fair share, and plays by the same rules” – another Obama line.
By comparison, 64 percent would be more likely to support a candidate who wants “to restore the values of economic freedom, opportunity, and small government,” which strongly resembles Romney’s economic messaging.
And 61 percent would be more likely to support a candidate who says “free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, help build a strong middle class, and more our lives better than all of the government’s programs put together,” which is something that Romney tends to say.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted April 13-17 of 1,000 respondents (250 reached by cell phone), and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.
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John 3"16 thou shalt not vote for another tea party member again so shalt you live in peace
I'm still going to give you a vote ....
Good one huh
obozo? there is an opening for bathroom attendant at sids taco palace...
don't worry the republicans already hired Mexicans they took the sign down
Now, if Romney was smart, he would tell everyone in America that he "hung around" with communists like William Ayers (Pentagon bomber), Bernadine Dohrn (Ayers' wife), and self-avowed communist Frank Marshall Davis for 20 plus years. Also, Romney should admit to America that he went to a church like G-D- America, G-D- America, G-D- America, Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "church" for twenty years. Apparently, the populace in America would prefer a communist-socialist like Barry Hussein Soetoro much more than a decent individual with a business background, and prefer an individual who has never done anything but be a "community organizer", and an ACORN advocate for most of their life. Gotta wonder where our Country is headed.
Obama Advisor Endorses Mitt Romney for President
Posted on April 16, 2012 by Conservative Byte
http://conservativebyte.com/2012/04/breaking-david-axelrod-endorses-mitt-romney-for-president/
Collapse Coming–Not Recovery
March 12, 2012, at 10:55 pm
by Greg Hunter in the category USAWatchdog.com | Print This Post | Email This Post
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Revised)
Dear CIGAs,
The way the latest unemployment numbers were reported by the mainstream media (MSM), you would think the Great Recession was over and the United States was solidly on the road to recovery. The Associated Press reported the numbers by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) with a story that said, “The United States added 227,000 jobs in February, the latest display of the breadth and strength of the economic recovery. The country has put together the most impressive three months of job growth since before the Great Recession. The unemployment rate stayed at 8.3 percent. It was the first time in six months it didn’t fall, and that was because a half-million Americans started looking for work.” (Click here for the complete AP story.) I don’t see how the MSM can say this one number is “the latest display of the breadth and strength of the economic recovery.”
Cyclical and structural unemployment are gripping the nation. Certain jobs are gone forever or, at the very least, for a very long time. Maybe that’s why millions of people have given up even looking for work. Forbes.com reported, just a few weeks ago, millions have stopped looking for work, and the government has stopped counting them. The report said, “In the latest, much celebrated, unemployment report, the labor force participation rate had plummeted to 63.7%, the most rapid decline in U.S. history. That means that under President Obama nearly 5 million Americans have fled the workforce in hopeless despair. The trick is that when those 5 million are not counted as in the work force, they are not counted as unemployed either. They may desperately need and want jobs. They may be in poverty, as many undoubtedly are, with America suffering today more people in poverty than in the entire half century the Census Bureau has been counting poverty. But they are not even counted in that 8.3% unemployment rate that Obama and his media cheerleaders were so tirelessly celebrating last week.” (Click here for the complete Forbes.com report.)
While we are on the subject of unemployment and poverty, the number of people on food stamps jumped to more than 46.5 million in December 2011! It is a new all-time record. How can the nation be in a true “recovery” with increasing numbers of Americans on the government dole?
According to economist John Williams of Shadowstats.com, the latest good news about job creation is distorted with what he calls “massive seasonal adjustments.” The latest Shadowstats.com report, last Friday, said, “With heavy warping of the seasonal-adjustment process from the effects of the extreme nature of the current downturn, the resulting employment gain and unemployment rate level remain of questionable quality and significance.” If unemployment were calculated the way BLS did it in 1994 or earlier, the true unemployment rate would top 22% according to Shadowstats.com. Williams also says, “The outlook for the broad economy remains bleak, despite relatively upbeat February payroll data. Bank lending remains impaired, while household income has taken a new hit, as indicated in recent reporting. Separately . . . annual and monthly growth in the broad money supply appears to be stalling, again. That likely is a further indication of mounting difficulties in the systemic-solvency crisis.” (Click here to go to the Shadowstats.com home page.)
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More people getting on food stamps is the Obama stimulas plan ....remember Pelosi said food stamps stimulate the economy.
Mitt (Mr. Michigan) and other Republicans wanted the auto-industry to crash and burn. Obama didn't. Imagine if we did what the Republicans wanted.
NBC poll they asked only 6 GSA corrupted idiots that why Obama has six point ahead
Americans brace for next foreclosure wave
By Nick Carey
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio | Wed Apr 4, 2012 7:09pm EDT
(Reuters) – Half a decade into the deepest U.S. housing crisis since the 1930s, many Americans are hoping the crisis is finally nearing its end. House sales are picking up across most of the country, the plunge in prices is slowing and attempts by lenders to claim back properties from struggling borrowers dropped by more than a third in 2011, hitting a four-year low.
But a painful part two of the slump looks set to unfold: Many more U.S. homeowners face the prospect of losing their homes this year as banks pick up the pace of foreclosures.
"We are right back where we were two years ago. I would put money on 2012 being a bigger year for foreclosures than 2010," said Mark Seifert, executive director of Empowering & Strengthening Ohio’s People (ESOP), a counseling group with 10 offices in Ohio.
"Last year was an anomaly, and not in a good way," he said.
In 2011, the "robo-signing" scandal, in which foreclosure documents were signed without properly reviewing individual cases, prompted banks to hold back on new foreclosures pending a settlement.
Five major banks eventually struck that settlement with 49 U.S. states in February. Signs are growing the pace of foreclosures is picking up again, something housing experts predict will again weigh on home prices before any sustained recovery can occur.
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your fair share
http://robbingamerica.blogspot.com/2012/02/your-fair-share-for-2013-obama-is.html
obozo fever do do do ...obozo fever dodo de do
oh watching barney the dinosaur i see
"LOL"
Vote for me a tax cheap for president I'm mitt Romney and i approve of this message
Allot of people can be cheap at times ....
BEN: Yea, but the president and leader of the free world is not supposed to be one of them.
Keeping your millions in offshore accounts and refusing to release your tax returns like your father did is not an example you want the president to set.
WEll that would qualify him to be treasury sec under Obama.
Ozzie
Then why did Obama pay his 'Fair Share'? He paid less then his secretary just like his buddy Buffett!!
Edit DID=DIDN'T
Marts were wrong about Friday’s jobs report
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/marts_were_wrong_about_friday_jobs_gX5YkyBWfRJEGZHVKNWjYO
lord obozo help us please, we might have to get a job, oh lord obozo save us from the evil micky mouse!!!
The Liberal spin machines is sweating bullets and will cite anything to provide an illusion that Obama will be re-elected.
Obama will win by a landslide.
lolabee -
I wondering when these fools are going to realize that the electoral college votes are heavily in Obama's favor. He has scenarios to get to 270 where he need not win FL or OH. That is incredible. All these idiots with the "Obozo" quotes are forgetting this part of the equation. Rasmussen has Romney just ahead in their polling (doubtful). However he is trailing Obama in all the key states. That equals an Obama win in my book. If Romney does not win FL and OH, how is he going to win? I'll tell you, he can't. He can also forget about PA, MI, CA, NY, MA, VA. Obama can lose both FL and OH and still look forward to Inauguration Day in 2013.
Barry Blowbama will be a one term President!!! I am not a Mit fan but Blowbama has destroyed this great nation and as a Communist his policies have failed!!!!! Bye Bye Barry!!!!
lord obozo? you can room with your last loyal follower in their moms basement in december
Obama Trashed on NBC News
http://conservativebyte.com/2011/12/obama-trashed-on-nbc-news/
Barry's 6 point advantage is because of extremely stupid people believe his @!$%#!!! This that want a free handout will vote for this clown!
Yea, I'm looking for a handout, you schmuck, you gotta problem with that???
Obama Administration Courts the Muslim Brotherhood
http://conservativebyte.com/2012/04/obama-administration-courts-the-muslim-brotherhood/
FACTS LIBERALS HATE...
A: In 2011, Obama's Budget gets voted down 97-0 in Senate. Obama says NOTHING about this.
B: In 2011, House PASSES a budget, Senate doesn't. Obama scolds Republicans in House, says NOTHING about Senate doing NOTHING for 2nd consecutive year.
C: In 2011, Obama attacks Republicans in Congress for opposing his request to raise debt ceiling, SAME one he opposed previously. Hypocritical, but so were Republicans and other Dems.
D: In 2012, Obama gives Senate budget. Senate REFUSES to VOTE on it. Obama says NOTHING, not ONE word about this failure.
E: In 2012, House PASSES a budget, Senate again, for THIRD straight year doesn't. OBAMA, again attacks Republicans in House about their budget.
obozo? you better start learning how to flip burgers, and quick
I really think you are a food stamp Republican
Nah, He's a "Constitutional" atty, he proved that a few weeks ago, that he understands the Judicial role.
Oh, wait...He didn't...He either IGNORED, LIED ABOUT or forgot about historical precedence that gives Judges the power to review...attempting to LIE that it was "judicial" activism when it wasn't, but why bother with the truth?
TOLD ya, ELVIS BIT, ELVIS BIT...LOL...LOL...LOL
Can't defend, can't respond, so he calls me name.
Go back to your XBOX BOY,
poor obozo and mrs obozo had to turn in their law licence....
hahahaha
the gap will widen as true americans realize that Obamas socialist agenda is identical to Adolph Hitler and his third riech and that Obama is trying to turn this great country of ours into a fourth Riech which is against our constitution and our founding four fathers.
its unfortunate that we have unamerican support for this socialist regime David axelrod,Sharon Mcdowell,Ed Shultz,Tom Hanks etc.
Lets not forget the 4th Reich media is already establishing itself=MSNBC
5 TRILLION socialist debt,government intrusion into our constitutional liberties, bigger socialist government,excessive regulation killing job growth and business expansion, highest taxes in the world keeping businesses from seting up shop and others fleeing the country to more tax freindly countries further taking more jobs out of whats left of what is called America- killing plans to make us energy independant,not setting a budget and socialist Reid saying we dont need a budget which violates the constitution of this country. of course Obama dont care because he wants a fourth Riech.
when more true Amercans do thier homework and research on what,s going on with our country they will know that Obama is not an option HE MUST GO
JOHN: Another world class schmuck who can't distinguish between Socialists and Nazis. Commies like me are Left Wing. Nazis are Right Wing which is why the most savage fighting of WWII took place between Germans and Russians. Time to get an education bozo.
Ozzie BOY, educate YOURSELF YOU IDIOT.
NO, Nazi's are NOT "Right" wing you MORON...
LOL...LOL...LOL...
they run a tight race
Ozzie BOY, here ya go, dumb dumb...
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus) was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany, and derivatives of it in other countries.[1][2][3][4] It is a unique variety of fascism that incorporates biological racism and antisemitism.[5] Nazism was founded out of elements of the far-right racist völkisch German nationalist movement and the violent anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture that fought against the uprisings of communist revolutionaries in post-World War I Germany.[6] The ideology was developed first by Anton Drexler and then Adolf Hitler as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.[7] Initially Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, though such aspects were later downplayed in the 1930s to gain the support from industrial owners for the Nazis; focus was shifted to anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes.[8] Nazism promoted political violence, militarism, and war, it conceived of politics as being a "battle", and the Nazis utilized their paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA) for violent attacks upon those they opposed, particularly communists, Jews, and social democrats.[9] Hitler and the Nazis openly promoted German territorial expansionism into Eastern Europe to be Lebensraum ("living space") for German settlers and assimilation of Germanic peoples into Germans that would result in the creation of a "Greater Germanic Realm of the German Nation".[10]
Nazism advocated the supremacy of the claimed Aryan master race over all other races.[11] Nazis viewed the progress of humanity as depending on the Aryans and believed that it could maintain its dominance only if it retained its purity and instinct for self-preservation.[12] They claimed that Jews were the greatest threat to the Aryan race.[13] They considered Jews a parasitic race that attached itself to various ideologies and movements to secure its self-preservation, such as capitalism, the Enlightenment, industrialisation, liberalism, Marxism, democracy, and trade unionism.[13] To maintain the purity and strength of the Aryan race, the Nazis sought to exterminate Jews, Romani, and the physically and mentally disabled.[14] Other groups deemed "degenerate" and "asocial" who were not targeted for extermination, but received exclusionary treatment by the Nazi state, included: homosexuals, blacks, Jehovah's Witnesses and political opponents.[14]
Nazism promoted an economic system that supported a stratified economy with classes based on merit and talent while rejecting universal egalitarianism, retaining private property, freedom of contract, and promoted the creation of national solidarity that would transcend class distinction.[15][16] Hitler claimed that unconditional equality of opportunity for all able racially-sound Aryan German males in Germany was the essence of the socialism of German National Socialism.[17] This was known as völkisch equality that officially ascribed collective racial equality of opportunity, equality before the law, and full legal rights to able people of Aryan blood but deliberately excluded people outside of this definition who were regarded as inferior and rejected the conception of universal human equality.[18] The Nazis criminalized strikes by employees and lockouts by employers for being contrary to national unity and the state took over the approval process of setting wage and salary levels.[19]
The Nazis were presented by Hitler and other proponents and viewed by some scholars as being neither left-wing nor right-wing but politically syncretic.[20][21][22][23] However major elements of Nazism have been deemed as clearly far-right, such as its goals of the right of claimed superior people to dominate while purging society of claimed inferior elements.[24]
Ozzie .. You are dead wrong. The Nazis and other fascists were leftists from day one. And you forget that Stalin and Hitler had a pact before Hitler reneged on it. Read a book before you flap your jaws. You might start with "Liberal Fascism".
JERRY: Sorry buddy, I must have hurt your feelings. I KNOW what NAZI is an acronyme for. But that doesn't mean that they were really socialists you dummy.
In case you didn't know, Hitler from time to time lied and mislead the German nation. ]'
Now go and have your warm milk and cookies you major league dumba$$
Obama’s secret plan to seize Americans’ land
http://conservativebyte.com/2012/04/obamas-secret-plan-to-seize-americans-land/
A lot of people talk smack about Obama but I would like to know how Romney is any better than Obama tell me one thing? and don't give me that bulls***t about how anybody is better than Obama, because that is not enough of a reason for me to vote for him, I am not going to vote for someone out of convenience, if you really think Romney cares about our Constitution, our needs, the people, and if you really think Romney is going to wipe out all our debt overnight like its nothing than you are living in a fantasyland , all Republictards care about is themselves, it has been proven over and over again, and yet we keep voting them in, thinking that there going to change, and now people have finally had enough ,people are finally waking up even some conservatives are getting tired of the same old crap,I am not a big fan of Obama, he has made mistakes, but I rather choose him, because he is the only one with enough common sense at the moment I rather choose the lesser of two evils than to risk voting for someone who could just drag us further into the sinkhole.
Romney is not obama and that is good enough for me.
Romney has an ability to create jobs...he has done it before...Obama not so much.
Honest jo- sorry still not enough of a reason for me , I 'm not going to vote for someone just because I don't like someone else its not a popularity contest.
The beach bum66- Where is the proof ? and even if he did that is still not enough of a reason , its one thing to run a state its another thing to run a country.
BEACH BUM: When he was governor of Massachusetts the state ranked 43rd in job creation. Impressive, eh?
Unemployment Increases in Young
People Under Obama: A New Lost Generation of Youth?
http://aconservativeteacher.blogspot.com/2011/12/unemployment-increases-in-young-people.html
OBAMA'S WAR ON WOMEN
http://www.ktrh.com/pages/michaelberry.html?article=10016656
Women's Unemployment Statistics Under Obama
JO; Just keep stroking it buddy. Eventually you'll actually believe it.
BS Mitty is the one whos against women, Yes his wife never work a day in her life, Yes I say it again that biaatchh got 10 maids at home what the hell does she do????
then vote for romney and your women will no longer need to work!!