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Jason Reed / Reuters
President Barack Obama campaigns at McArthur High School in Hollywood, Fla. on Nov. 4, 2012.
With just two days until Election Day, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are running neck and neck nationally, according to the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before the election.
Obama gets support from 48 percent of likely voters, while Romney gets 47 percent.
Read the full poll here (.pdf)
A new NBC poll should give both presidential campaigns reason to hope. Obama comes in at 48 percent; Romney at 47 percent. Taking Sandy into account, 80 percent in the Northeast said they approved of the president's handling of Superstorm Sandy. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
In the NBC/WSJ poll released two weeks ago, the two candidates were deadlocked at 47 percent each.
“This poll is reflecting a very, very close campaign nationally,” says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart.
“It’s a dead heat,” Hart adds. “This election is going to be decided by turnout, turnout, turnout.”
While both Obama and Romney are running virtually even in this national poll, a majority of surveys from the battleground states – especially in the crucial battlegrounds of Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin – show the president with a slight advantage.
A new NBC poll indicates the presidential race is in a dead heat. Meanwhile, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may have given Obama a boost when he praised his leadership. NBC's Andrea Mitchell and David Gregory have more.
Good news for Obama: Two-thirds approve of hurricane handling
The NBC/WSJ poll – conducted Nov. 1-3 – contains good news for both Obama and Romney in the final days of the campaign.
For Obama, 41 percent of likely voters say that what they have read, heard, and seen over the past couple of weeks have given them a more favorable impression of president, compared to 40 percent who said it had given them a less favorable impression – which is up from his 38-to-43 percent score on this question two weeks ago.
Read our memo on our 'likely voter' methodology (.pdf)
Both presidential candidates have spent months fighting over nine battleground states, but as the race draws to a close the Romney campaign is trying to expand the battlefield to states that have been reliably blue in recent years. Is this opportunity or desperation? DNC Executive Director Patrick Gaspard discusses.
Part of that more favorable impression is due to his handling of Hurricane Sandy, of which 67 percent of likely voters approve.
By comparison, 45 percent of voters say they have say they have a less favorable impression of Romney from what they have read, heard and seen over the past couple of weeks, versus 40 percent who have a more favorable view.
Yet two weeks ago – fresh off his debate performances – Romney’s score here was tied, 44 percent more favorable, and 44 percent less favorable.
In the latest NBC News/ WSJ poll President Barack Obama has an eight point lead among women, however Mitt Romney has an seven point lead among men. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., joins NBC's Andrea Mitchell to talk about the gender gap.
Comparing 2012 to 2004
In addition, Obama’s numbers in this poll look almost identical to George W. Bush’s in the final NBC/WSJ before the 2004 presidential election, which Bush ended up winning 51 percent to 48 percent.
Obama’s approval rating among likely voters stands at 49 percent – exactly matching Bush’s 49 percent approval in the final 2004 NBC/WSJ poll.
Forty-two percent say the country is headed in the right direction, versus 41 percent who said the same thing in late Oct. 2004.
And the head-to-head score between Obama and Romney – 48 percent to 47 percent – is identical to what it was in the final NBC/WSJ poll before the 2004 election: Bush 48 percent, Democrat John Kerry 47 percent.
“The comparisons between 2004 and 2012 are haunting,” McInturff says.
Good news for Romney: Comfort level, the economy
The good news for Romney in this national poll is that 53 percent of likely voters are comfortable with the idea of him as president, which ties Obama’s percentage on this question (although 39 percent are “very comfortable” with Obama versus 26 percent who are “very comfortable” with Romney).
Also, Romney is ahead of Obama among independents, 47 percent to 40 percent.
And the former Massachusetts governor leads Obama by five points on which candidate is better prepared to create jobs and grow the economy, 47 percent to 42 percent.
However, a majority of voters in the survey – 52 percent – say the economy is recovering.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Nov. 1-3 of 1,475 likely voters (including 443 cell phone-only respondents), and it has a margin of error of plus-minus 2.55 percentage points.
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Barack...hiding his agenda for second term...
Contact your Senator's Office tomorrow to Confirm!
Contact your Senator's Office tomorrow to confirm for proof!
There is no doubt in my mind that "feist readhead" works for MSNBC. She post the moment they release a headline, with the mission to set the tone for the debates or comments. Never failed. It is disgusting for a "news" agency to try and manipulate and form people's opinion before an election.
But Farina. You have no mind. You are a brainwashed repuke dunce.
feisty isn't the only commenter on first read who is an obvious plant.
I think Feisty is a good candidate for a paid commenter, but it doesn't necessairly have to be NBC. The campaigns or superpacs are more likely to do that.
Feisty is a paid commenter. You would think that she would be hiding since her POTUS is neck and neck in a race that they all thought would be a runaway for him. WRONG AGAIN FEISTY! Will you be posting on November 7th after your Great and Powerful One loses this election?? I doubt it. You will be cleaning out your office and looking for another job.
so what is she is? Don't read her posts. Double check facts w/ independent sources. Try using your brain once in a while
Lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger is getting crushed in the early voting. Dems are coming out in droves. The enthusiasm to defeat the tax evading liar is unbeliveable.
Can't wait to send this Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger back to his birthplace in Tijuana on Wednesday.
1) You seem to have a problem with other people's faith and religion. All communists do.
2) If you want to send Romney to his "birthplace", Tijuana, please do the same for Obama, Kenya.
3) You are clearly very afraid of losing your hand outs and having to go back to work if Romney wins.
"How Mitt Romney Does Business"
"In Utah, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been caught in multimillion-dollar Ponzi schemes and other forms of fraud conducted by fellow church-goers.
Deaf people, the Vietnamese, military families and co-workers also have been targeted. " The Salt Lake Tribune (First Published Dec 31 2010 03:33 pm)
This is how many “Mormons Do Business" - pretty similar to how Scientologist's do business. Lie, cheat, - say whatever it takes to win (with a clear conscience). Hmmm - sounds familiar.
Farina. Isn't yo mammy calling you. Take off your turban and hurry home. Mohammed Mitt is going to lose.
Isn't yo mammy calling you boy. Yo roadkill possum is almost cooked up. Duncebrain, it is time to go back home to yo mammy's shack, sit out on the back porch on yo one legged rocker, put yo corn cob pipe in yo toothless mouth, stick a plug o Red Man up yo axx, strum yo washboard and make sure yo daddy's moonshine don't overcook.
If you hurry, you can still make tonight's Klan meetin' where yo toothless buddies and the rest of yo braindead repuke dunces will be discussin' the latest advances in anthrax spreadin.
Maybe tomorrow, you can take yo toothless braindead buddies and attack some abortion clinic.
Just posted above...
I don't know if that person knows that CRAP and RAT is very similar to the DemocRAP or DemocRAT party and the Obuster black panther gangs. Refering to a person as a blog monkey???...excuse me, JFK authorize a monkey to fly in space for our own good. And to clarify...monkeys are black too, not all whites...go take a safari.
So, I assume this person will vote in revenge as the Masters who walks on water. We are facing a guy who promote muslimism and destruction of our country as his wife and his reverend Wright so well spoke about and NOW, I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THE US ARE FILLED WITH FOOLS WHO BELIEVE IN THIS GUY.
WAKE UP AMERICA, VOTE ROMNEY.
By the way, do you know that the NBC anchor (Brian Williams) initials are BW...like Black and White...
Just need to get this out, and am sooooo angry this is not being covered!! TOMORROW ROMNEY FACES ETHICS CHARGES!!!!!! Any conserves care to discuss????
Yeah... People who live in glasses houses shouldn't throw stones!
uh, thats not really a discussion... and funny how someone runs his campaign on honesty and integrity, not really honarable. Kinda Ironic don't you think.
I read about them. The claim comes from union thugs, evidently because they can't buy him.
The so-called 'charges' are nonsense. I only need to look at the source to know that. It is the democrat way to try to get rid of the opposition by hook or by crook.
It worked so well for Obama to get him into the US Senate I guess they had to try again to try to keep him in the Presidency.
I wonder how you expect Obama to be able to be President from a prison cell? Because his actions in the Benghazi debacle are criminal.
By the way, how can you possibly consider Obama to be 'ethical'?
Clueless Lyin Willardo should not even be running for president. But for a lyin moron, talk is cheap. This clueless moron has no idea how to fix anything. This criminal repuke bankupts companies and loses jobs. What a joke. The nuts that follow him actually believe that he is going to create 12 million new jobs and these dopes believe him. He does not have to tell them how, that does not matter.
Clueless Lyin Willardo is known as the slapped ass Mexican Mormon Moron for good reason. This complete dunce made himself look even more ignorant than he already is by stating in a campaign clip that if he ever overpaid his taxes, he does not deserve to be your president. Well this repuke dunce overpaid his 2011 taxes by $3,000 to make it look like he was paying a higher tax rate-which he can recover after the election. He has up to 3 years to refile an amended return. Only a pathetic, psychotic, braindead radical right wing cracked teanut dope will vote for him.
Democrats: The party of religious intolerance, racism and bigotry! Shameful!
Nevada. Glad to see a represenative from a state Obama is going to win. That makes you another repuke dope that lost.
Wasn't it great to see Candy Crowley catch the Mexican Mormon Moron in a nother lie. He looked like the slapped ass that he really is.
"Dead Heat" ....don't believe the polls. Get out and vote.
If you are a black woman voter, you need to kick out obama. Black unemployment rose in October to 14.3 percent from 13.4 percent in September, the U.S. Department of Labor said on Friday. More stunning were the statistics for the jobless rate among
African-American teens: 40.5 percent, rising from 36.7 percent in
September. Read this:
If you are a woman voter, Romney is your choice. Watch this video:
How can any braindead, pathetic radical right wing cracked teanut dunce vote for this guy.
The repukes also want to ban invitro fertilization. Yet 3 of Willardo's children had this done to produce children. Now, he wants to outlaw it to get the votes of the evangelical crazies. He will lie and do anything to win. Then the evangelicals will probably get screwed if he is elected. His campaign manager called him an Etch a Sketch player. When he is elected you can't hold him to anything he promised.
His true allegiance is to the criminal corporate masters who are bankrolling his campaign so they get regulations eased to enable them to rob and steal from us once again as was done under Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang led by President Cheney.
-$295.5 Billion Trade imbalance in 2011 with China. Fair Free Trade, where all imports to the US American market must meet at least all the same minimum production / providing standards of: quality, safety, health, environment, and wage requirements that our domestic producers / providers must meet. What we need is a national policy of Fair Free Trade that will “return” Sustainable Jobs to US Americans!” We in the USA set many: quality, safety, health, environment and wage standards for various reasons. We can not set all these regulations and requirements and not expect that thousands of US American factories, millions of US American jobs, billions of US American dollars, and now the interest and obligation on trillions of US American debt would not be exported in the name of Free Trade. We do not need fewer domestic regulations and/or requirements, nor more tariffs and quotas. We only need Fair Free Trade, a level playing field for the US American worker/producer to compete on for the USA market. What is most needed is the return of “Made In The USA” long term manufacturing jobs. Our economy will not stabilize until maker jobs are returned to US Americans. Fair Free Trade! (Not Balanced Trade - Exporting a billion dollars of raw materials and importing a billion dollars of “Made In China” consumer goods does not return jobs to US Americans.) Fair Free Trade, where all imports to the US American market must meet at least ALL minimum production / providing standards of: quality, safety, health, environment, and wages of the importing country, would bring factories, and sustainable jobs back to the USA. It would put money in the hands of our working domestic consumers, and directly into the hands of working foreign consumers that could then buy more “Made In The USA” products. Go to: www. manifestry. info > Trade
Only in this country could the lyin Mexican Mormon Moron have such high poll numbers, although still losing. Only the braindead repuke dopes here can't see the light.
HONG KONG — If the rest of the world got to vote, President Obama apparently would be re-elected in a landslide.
A new survey of global opinions for the BBC World Service shows 20 of 21 countries favoring Mr. Obama. France, Australia, Canada, Nigeria and Britain went most heavily for Obama.
The only country surveyed with a Mitt Romney yard sign on its lawn was Pakistan, which favored the Republican challenger by 14 percent to 11 percent. (Three-fourths of Pakistani respondents had no preference.)
Elsewhere in Asia, Chinese respondents preferred Mr. Obama, 28 percent to 9 percent, as did South Koreans (58 to 9); Japanese (33 to 9); Indians (36 to 12); and Malaysians (28 to 13).
Harold-where are you when we need you. The repuke zombies are running wild.
It was too bad that Harold Camping did not succeed in taking away the base of the repuke dunce party.
Harold Camping, the evangelical king, got 500,000 of these pathetic radical right wing braindead evangelical Children of the Corn zombies to give up all of their worldly possessions to go meet and stay with the man in the sky. They are so easily brainwashed. Camping, considered the evangelical king by many because of his 50 year history of bible study, promised to take away these right wing bible nuts on the last Rapture Day on Oct 21, 2011. All of his calculations were based on "biblical facts" When it did not work, he then realized that the bible in most part is "pulp fiction".
Yet these braindead fools continue to believe that there are men and boys with wings on flying around blowing horns.
The only thing to do to cure these zombies is to send them all back to the Garden of Eden on Noah's Ark to start over again, unless of course, they fall off the end of the flat earth.
These braindead idiots would still be believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, if their parents did not tell them otherwise. It is unfortunate that they don't believe their leaders, when they tell them how worthless repuke lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, draft dodger, job outsourcer and Etch A Sketch Champion is.
Many of them still believe that the earth is flat and that dinosaurs never existed. It is all a liberal conspiracy.
Nevada. A typical repuke dunce. I would not take any money to out the lyin Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger. It is pleasure to do it.
Can't handle the facts, so ignore them.
NBC is bias towards the liberal, do nothing, president... it's a fact. If my post even gets through I'll be shocked.
You want to know the real story behind Barack Hussein Obama an article from the Moral Liberal no less....
Romney just can't be trusted!
Amazing how the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger wants to invade Syria.
This is how the radical right wing cracked teanut dopes will help our country. They can attack Syria.
The right wing radical cracked teanuts like John McCain, Sister Sarah and lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, draft dodger, job outsourcer and Etch A Sketch champion want us to unilateraly attack Syria. These repukes dopes never learn.
Here is how Sister Sarah, the great American Zero, can help us invade Syria and get these guys. She can be part of the invasion force.
We have to attack the radical Islamists before it is too late, without putting our soldiers in harms way.
The best way is to send the right wing radical cracked teanuts over there to fight. First let Sister Sara attack from the front in her helicopter gunship where she is experienced in shooting wolves from the air with her blazing AK47, turns them into instant wolfburgers. Then get the other dunce, the flying witch from Delaware, Christine O Donnell. to attack their flanks using her rocket powered, heavily armed broomstick. Then the macho nut Rick Sanitarium can get his boss, the Pope's boys, the rapist, pedophile catholic priests to attack from the rear. John (town cryer) Bonehead and Mitch McDumbell can direct operations. Groper Nutquist could be the sniper, as all he has to do is lift the lid from his trash can and fire away.
Harold Camping, the evangelical king, can assist by getting the 500,000 or so braindead evangelical Children of the Corn, that he brainwashed to give up all of their worldly possessions to go meet and stay with the man in the sky. These zombies would not care if they died because they would finally get to meet and stay with the man in the sky. Camping can supply them with bibles to throw at the Islamists with some of the millions he bilked these fools out of.
If they still need more help, we can recruit the right wing centrists: the abortion clinic bombers, federal building bombers, abortion doctor killers and the radical right wing southern anthrax spreaders. With this army of right wing nuts and Jesus Freaks, we save our real army for another day.
Ron (Puke) Paul can preach liberty to the Islamics and Muslims who he loves. Maybe lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader can get some of his buddies that he grew up with in Tijuana to volunteer to help also.
Any prisoners that are taken can be sent to Nut Gingerheads 2 trillion dollar moon colony on an unihabitable planet. There is no atmosphere there, so no oxygen and only traces of water. It is hotter than boiling water there during the day and it goes down to 160 degrees below zero at night. In fact, it so nice there, that we should also send the 4 repuke clowns that are want to be president there also. Ron (Puke) Paul can preach liberty to the men in the moon, lyin Willardo can establish an off planet moon bank to hide his money, Nut Gingerhead can destroy the moon peoples housing market, and the Pope's boy, Sanitarium can try to find work for his base, the rapist, pedophile catholic priests and braindead evangelical Children of the Corn.
If the right wing cracked teanuts want to beat Obama they need new candidates. Cain/Sandusky in 2012. These two are their best family values candidates. .Who cares what they did in the past, they are against abortion, that is all that counts to these nuts.
I don't think anyone would actually pay for his trash.
It will cost each Presidential candidate over one billion dollars to tell us why he's the better choice. There is a chart that tracks how many lies each has told us. It doesn't really matter who gets more popular or electoral college votes. The loser can be identified before the voting begins - it's the public.
I find it disturbing the almost half the country believes the flip flopping ideas of Mitt Romney. I also find the Republicans annoying that they need change after 4 years when the rest of us had to wait thru 8 years of Bush. It also disturbs me that middle class people buy into the far right rhetoric that Obama & the democrats are the ones who wouldn't work across party lines & that they are responsible for the downfall of America. What a crock. Wake up people - Mitt Romney only cares about Mitt Romney & being the Republican party's go to guy for this election. I hope & pray on Tuesday that anyone who has half a brain gets out & votes & votes for the man who has done more for regular American's in a few years than Mitt's done in his whole adult life!
It really is sad, isn't it. so many repuke dunces believe that the clueless Mexican Mormon Moron is somehow going to help them. He only works for his criminal corporate masters and the Jesus freaks that control him.
Repuke Party. The aholes of America. They have no backbone. If a war ever broke out in the middle east and lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger was in charge, he would tie his dog to the roof of his car and speed down to his birthplace in Tijuana. He would hide in one of his 8 grandmammies (pappy's side only) outhouses.
Jim, you are really not helping.
Jim Radburn is just a re-reg of "Life2" who was banned months ago. The moderators will figure it out sooner or later.
Read the real story:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting an inexperienced man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of Idiots such as those who made him their president."
Ironically, we felt exactly the same about Bush.
OK jock, then I guess we agree: Let's vote Obama and Bush out of the White House!
Lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, draft dodger, job outsourcer and Etch A Sketch Champion may have vision of going back home to Mexico.
All braindead pathetic right wing radical cracked teanuts should listen to your leaders.
Rick the Dick Santarium has brainwashed his followers, the evangelicals and the gay rapist, pedophile catholic priests that lyin' Willardo is a member of an evil cult and is the anti-christ. He also told them that lyin Willardo is the worst person in history to ever run for the presidency, can't be trusted and will destroy our country. Groper Nutquist, the boss of the right wing cracked teanuts and Nut Gingerhead, the criminal lobbyist, totally agreed with the last three assessments.
So most of the evangelical sheep will probably stay home on election day or some may even vote for Obama. They are totally scared to death of lyin Willardo, the Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter, job outsourcer, draft dodger and Etch A Sketch champion.
If this repuke draft dodger ever became president, and war broke out in the middle east, he will be putting his dog on the top of his car and fleeing to his birthplace in Tijuana and hide in one of his 8 grandmammy's (pappy's side only) outhouses.
I voted last week. Obama 2012,
Read it and weep, repuke dopes.
All Obama needs is Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio. He is crushing the lyin Mexican Mormon Moron tax evading draft dodger in the early voting in all three states. The trend is his not his friend.
Jim -
Your welfare checks will end the day after tomorrow. You need to go back to work.
close, but not quite ---- he only needs ohio out of those 3 states you mentioned.
Romney and republicans see the polls.They call upon their favorite felon Gov Rick Scott to help rig the election in Florida again.These republicans that engauge in voter supression need to be rounded up and jailed.
There is no doubt in my mind that "feist readhead" works for MSNBC. She post the moment they release a headline, with the mission to set the tone for the debates or comments. So is JIM RADBURN. It is disgusting for a "news" agency to try and manipulate and form people's opinion with paid bloggers before an election.
I seriously doubt it is NBC (MSNBC doesn't exist). It would more likely be the campaigns or PACS doing it. NBC would have no incentive.