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Showing posts with label Election 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election 2012. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

28 Days

With the election exactly four weeks away, I thought it appropriate to sit back and see where things stand currently.

Now that Mitt Romney is just barely to the right of Barack Obama, the president and his re-election team have a real problem. The Etch-E-Sketch idea is actually working because many people didn't tune into the election until the debates. To them, Romney is a very reasonable man who looks and acts like a president. He's not the guy who said he was a "severe conservative," wants to cut taxes for the rich, and thinks that society is made up of makers and takers (copyright Ayn Rand). They weren't paying attention then. He is, in fact, a moderate.

The president's re-election is now more difficult because of this new (times four) Mitt Romney (who I happen to think is who he has been all along. Politico agrees). So, Barack Obama and his team need to do two things in the next four weeks and they need to do them well otherwise they might lose.

The first thing they have to do is get people to vote. If everyone voted who supports the president, the only state that Romney wins that the president won in 2008 is Indiana. But voter enthusiasm is lower on the D side than the R side so that makes the race tighter. In short, they need to get out the vote. Spending the next four weeks getting people registered to vote would be time well spent. Spending time talking about Big Bird  would not be time well spent.

The second thing the president has to do is vigorously defend his record in the next two debates, at rallies, and in the media. His team needs to stop talking about the last debate and focus on the next two. Personally, I don't think the Biden-Ryan debate is going to matter much because people want to hear from the president again, not a surrogate. In fact, the whole surrogate thing has to stop. No one can make his case for him anymore...the president has to nut up and do it himself.

He has a lot of great things to talk about so it should be easy. Our country is heading in the right direction on the economy with the unemployment number falling and jobs being added every month. His foreign policies have been specific (unlike Governor Romney) and largely successful. He needs to brag about them while illustrating that Mitt Romney's are a combination of dangerous naivete and a bizarre time warp to 20th century realism. And he really needs to pin Romney down on the economy with the details because Mitt doesn't have any.

As for folks like Andrew Sullivan, they need to leave the drama queen bit behind and start being helpful. The continued hand wringing over a debate now one week ago is getting very old. I realize that the art of performance is very important to media types like Sully but his posts are becoming so shrill it's hard for me to read them anymore. Personally, I think it's because his personal reputation is on the line after his Newsweek story about the president being the Democrat's Ronald Reagan and now he's worried that he might look foolish. Well, he's looking foolish now saying that the election is over with a full month left until people vote.

There are many folks in the political media that simply need to take a fucking chill pill. The new Pew Poll that shows Romney up 4 points nationally makes perfect sense when you consider that many people that took that poll identified as Republican. Unlike that whiners on the Right who foamed at the mouth about "skewed polls," people on the left (and everyone really) need to realize that this is simply how sampling works in some of these polls so that's why the numbers are weighed that way.

And, honestly, the national tracking polls are meaningless at this point as the 6-8 swing state polls hold more obvious insight.

Overall, I've noticed a somewhat muted response from the far right on the new, new, new, new Mitt Romney which I find to be fascinating. Are they being quiet because they don't want to jinx him? Are they afraid that he really is going to turn out to be a moderate? Or do they think he's just fooling everyone and the severe conservative will pop up if he wins?

Not that I want this to happen but I think it would be very interesting if Romney won the election and pretty much did the same things that President Obama is doing. After all, that's more or less what he said he would do in the first debate. Is this what the Right really wants?


Monday, October 08, 2012

Polls For Monday, October 8th

General Election: Romney vs. ObamaPew ResearchObama 45, Romney 49Romney +4
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaPolitico/GWU/BattlegroundObama 49, Romney 48Obama +1
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaGallup Tracking*Obama 47, Romney 47Tie
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaGallup Tracking*Obama 50, Romney 45Obama +5
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen TrackingObama 48, Romney 48Tie
Pennsylvania: Romney vs. ObamaSusquehannaObama 47, Romney 45Obama +2
Colorado: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen ReportsObama 49, Romney 48Obama +1
Virginia: Romney vs. ObamaPPP (D)Obama 50, Romney 47Obama +3
Iowa: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen ReportsObama 49, Romney 47Obama +2
Massachusetts: Romney vs. ObamaWestern NE UniversityObama 63, Romney 33Obama +30
Wisconsin Senate - Thompson vs. BaldwinPPP (D)Baldwin 49, Thompson 46Baldwin +3
Florida Senate - Mack vs. NelsonWeAskAmericaNelson 44, Mack 44Tie
Florida Senate - Mack vs. NelsonRasmussen ReportsNelson 52, Mack 41Nelson +11
Virginia Senate - Allen vs. KainePPP (D)Kaine 51, Allen 44Kaine +7
Ohio Senate - Mandel vs. BrownWeAskAmericaBrown 46, Mandel 44Brown +2
Generic Congressional VotePolitico/GWU/BattlegroundRepublicans 45, Democrats 46Democrats +1
President Obama Job ApprovalPolitico/GWU/BattlegroundApprove 50, Disapprove 48Approve +2
President Obama Job ApprovalGallupApprove 51, Disapprove 44Approve +7
President Obama Job ApprovalRasmussen ReportsApprove 51, Disapprove 49Approve +2
Obama and Democrats' Health Care PlanRasmussen Reports*For/Favor 39, Against/Oppose 54Against/Oppose +15
Direction of CountryPolitico/GWU/BattlegroundRight Direction 39, Wrong Track 54Wrong Track +15
Obama: Favorable/UnfavorablePew ResearchFavorable 49, Unfavorable 48Favorable +1
Romney: Favorable/UnfavorablePew ResearchFavorable 50, Unfavorable 46Favorable +4
Obama: Favorable/UnfavorablePolitico/GWU/BattlegroundFavorable 52, Unfavorable 45Favorable +7
Romney: Favorable/UnfavorablePolitico/GWU/BattlegroundFavorable 47, Unfavorable 47Tie

A ton of new polls today and they make the election look even more muddy.

The two Gallup polls should be noted first as the one that is the tie is from the three days after the debate whole the one that shows the president 5 points ahead is a 7 day tracking poll.

I'm still stunned that both Rasmussen and Gallup have the president's approval rating above 50 percent. That makes no sense at considering the poor debate performance.

The battleground states look like they are still hanging in there for the president. Iowa, in particular, has been solid Obama for awhile now and with the latest being a Rasmussen poll, it's like more like +4 or +5 Obama because they don't figure in cel phone users.

The Pew Research Poll really shows the effects of the debate and the enthusiasm gap. The key to a decisive victory for the president is to get out the vote. He does that and he wins just be sheer demographics.

More Senate polls that show how it's nearly hopeless that the GOP is going to take back the Senate.

Saturday, October 06, 2012

Polls For Saturday Oct 6th

General Election: Romney vs. ObamaGallup TrackingObama 49, Romney 46Obama +3
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen TrackingObama 47, Romney 49Romney +2
Colorado: Romney vs. ObamaGravis MarketingObama 46, Romney 49Romney +3
President Obama Job ApprovalGallupApprove 50, Disapprove 45Approve +5
President Obama Job ApprovalRasmussen ReportsApprove 50, Disapprove 49Approve +1

So, these are the first real post debate polls and they make no sense to me. After the president's poor performance on Wednesday night, I expected Gallup to be dead even and Rasmussen to have Romney up by 4 (recall that Rasmussen does not poll cel phone users so their numbers and they sample more GOP so their numbers skew Republican).

Moreover, the approval rating for both Gallup and Rasmussen is still at 50 percent. I don't get it after how much he sucked at the debate.

Friday, October 05, 2012

Polls For Friday October 5th

Florida: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen ReportsRomney 49, Obama 47Romney +2
Florida: Romney vs. ObamaWeAskAmericaRomney 49, Obama 46Romney +3
Virginia: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen ReportsObama 48, Romney 49Romney +1
Virginia: Romney vs. ObamaWeAskAmericaObama 45, Romney 48Romney +3
Ohio: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen ReportsObama 50, Romney 49Obama +1
Ohio: Romney vs. ObamaWeAskAmericaObama 46, Romney 47Romney +1
Nevada: Romney vs. ObamaGravis MarketingObama 49, Romney 48Obama +1
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaGallup TrackingObama 50, Romney 45Obama +5
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen TrackingObama 49, Romney 47Obama +2
Virginia Senate - Allen vs. KaineRasmussen ReportsKaine 52, Allen 45Kaine +7
President Obama Job ApprovalGallupApprove 52, Disapprove 43Approve +9
President Obama Job ApprovalRasmussen ReportsApprove 50, Disapprove 48Approve +2
New Jersey 3rd District - Runyan vs. AdlerRichard Stockton Col.Runyan 49, Adler 39Runyan +10

Most Welcome News

The US Department of Labor announced today that the unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September, the lowest since President Obama took office. This is great news for the US economy.

In a sign of stronger growth, August and July payroll numbers were revised up—August payrolls rose
142,000 compared with the initially reported 96,000, and July was up 181,000 versus an earlier estimate of 141,000.

You know it must be good news for the president when even Matt Drudge has this on his front page. He certainly needs it after his poor performance on Wednesday night. This report (along with Mitt Romney's admission of being completely wrong about the 47 percent comment) is going to mitigate whatever damage there may be over the president's listless showing at the debate.

Of course, there might not be any fallout. The undecided voters don't really seem to care about the theater of the debate. The various interviews and surveys conducted since the debate show continued frustration with both candidates over the dearth of specifics. And both President Reagan and President George W. Bush had truly awful first debates and came back with better second and third ones.

This news on unemployment means that we can officially say that the president is a job creator and his policies have turned this country around from disaster towards a direction of a stronger economy.

OK...wait...Huh?

Less than 24 hours after his strong debate performance, he goes on Fox News and says this?

Well, clearly in a campaign, with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you're going to say something that doesn't come out right. In this case, I said something that's just completely wrong.

WTF?!!??

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that he said this and it shows some real integrity but didn't he get the memo that if you are going to be the leader of the Right in this country that you need to be unmoved by facts, undeterred by new information and see compromise as a weakness?

I think we may need to add on fourth "new" to Nikto's New New New Mitt Romney. This latest model has now chucked the conservative base and the Tea Party right out the fucking window. Apparently, the wealthy elite who believe in "Makers and Takers" as well.

I figured he'd wait at least a few days to enjoy his victory before fucking it up for himself but not even one miserable day?

Sheesh....

Thursday, October 04, 2012

Post Debate Poll

Here's that CBS poll that everyone has been talking about taken right after the debate.

In the moments following the candidates' performances on the University of Denver stage, 46 percent of voters gave the economy-centric debate to Romney, 22 percent said they believed the president was the winner, and 32 percent called it a tie. More good news for the GOP nominee: 56 percent of those polled said they viewed Romney in a better light after watching the debate. Eleven percent said their opinion of him dropped, and 32 percent cited no change in opinion.

54 percent of the people said they thought the president won or it was a tie? Obviously, Romney won so what's the deal here? Remember, these are uncommitted voters and it seems to me that they aren't swayed by the types of arguments that both the right and the left think they will be swayed by.

Polls For Thursday, October 4th

Here are today's polls, taken obviously before the debate last night. Take a look at Gallup's approval rating. The last time the president saw a number this high was August of 2009! This is even higher than Gallup's reading immediately following the death of Osama bin Laden (May of 2011). He still maintains a 4 point lead nationally in the general.

Well, he's going to need it come the weekend when we start seeing the post debate polls. Obviously, he's going to drop but by how much? Keep your eye on Ohio.

Race/Topic   (Click to Sort)PollResultsSpread
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaGallup TrackingObama 49, Romney 45Obama +4
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen TrackingObama 49, Romney 47Obama +2
Missouri: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen ReportsRomney 49, Obama 46Romney +3
Connecticut: Romney vs. ObamaQuinnipiacObama 54, Romney 42Obama +12
Hawaii: Romney vs. ObamaHonolulu Civil Beat/MRGObama 62, Romney 30Obama +32
Connecticut Senate - McMahon vs. MurphyQuinnipiacMurphy 47, McMahon 48McMahon +1
Washington Senate - Baumgartner vs. CantwellRasmussen ReportsCantwell 57, Baumgartner 37Cantwell +20
North Carolina Governor - McCrory vs. DaltonRasmussen ReportsMcCrory 54, Dalton 38McCrory +16
New Hampshire 1st District - Guinta vs. Shea-PorterWMUR/UNHShea-Porter 47, Guinta 38Shea-Porter +9
New Hampshire 2nd District - Bass vs. KusterWMUR/UNHKuster 42, Bass 41Kuster +1
President Obama Job ApprovalGallupApprove 54, Disapprove 42Approve +12
President Obama Job ApprovalRasmussen ReportsApprove 49, Disapprove 49Tie

More Post Mortem on the Debate

I find it very interesting that the "liberal" media has been so critical of the president since the conclusion of the debate. Why is that? Are they angry that he didn't do his part to make it like a WWE wrestling match?

Moreover, there seems to be a disconnect between the undecided voters and the media's continued ripping of the president. As I flipped around last night checking out each network's coverage of those undecided focus groups, the individual voters interviewed seemed unfazed by the media's take. Their central concern seemed to be that neither candidate was giving them enough information to make a decision. It will be interesting to see how this shows up in the polls.

Here's a graphic that shows how little persuadable voters are interested in the debates.




















In addition, none of them reacted well to any hint of negativity which makes the president's strategy last night now seem very wise. Of course, I'm still trying to figure out why he didn't want to be there last night. What was going on? Obviously, the first thought is a negative one: he's aloof, non caring, and an elitist snob. But what if it was something else? Did he have a fight with his wife? Something going on with his daughters? Some other sort of bad news? He's only human after all. We may never know.

A female friend of mine commented on my FB status today on the debate with the following.

I always wonder how the president runs the country and then has to find time to prepare for a debate. Obama looked so tired last night. Not his best debate for sure.

Women love the president and may ultimately be his saving grace from this poor showing with their sympathy.

Another good thing that came out of last night was the "newly discovered" Obama speech from 2007 is now ancient history. The Right can now spend the next few days pouncing on the president for his bad debate performance.

I also disagree with nearly everyone in the media when they say that Mitt's only awkward moment was the Big Bird comment. It wasn't awkward at all and was actually funny. Mentions of Big Bird have gone up 800,000% on Facebook today which shows you just how interested in the substance of the issues the general populace is these days.

Some other notes from around the inter-webs...

Governor Romney didn’t win the election last night, he just stopped losing it. That may not last; the road to the election is still very long and we are more likely than not to see momentum shift back and forth some more. (Walter Russell Mead)

If you watched it without sound – or, even better, if you didn’t speak English, so you could hear the sound but couldn’t understand the words – I have to believe Romney won by a mile. But if you didn’t watch the debate, and read the transcript, what you’d see is the following. When Romney attacked, Obama generally had a policy response – some more persuasive than others, but the response was generally policy-related. When Obama attacked, Romney would generally deny that he took the position that was being attacked. Romney’s palpable zest for the debate made him look like a guy ready to take charge, and the President’s demeanor suggested some willingness to let him do so. But his refusal to stand his ground on anything – and the marked contrast with the President in that regard – made him sound like a snake-oil salesman. (Noah Millman

I’m not particularly concerned with who won the debate, although if I were forced to declare a winner, I’d say Romney did. What I am concerned with was the poor quality of the debate. There was plenty of talk about the working poor and the unemployed, but they were used mostly as props. The crucial issue for the next four years is how to make economic growth work for everyone, how to get people back to work, and how to find and deploy the resources necessary to make our systems function well. I heard a lot more discussion of Dodd-Frank and Simpson-Bowles on Wednesday night than I did on those topics.(Daniel Gross)


Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Post Debate Thoughts

Mitt Romney did a good job tonight in the debate against the president and, man oh man, did he need it. If he had made one or two serious errors, it would have been all over.

Instead, he rose to the occasion and became the Mitt Romney that I had thought had vanished and been replaced by an android built by the right wing blogsphere. We saw this in his latest ad in which he is talking directly to the camera about the middle class. Mitt Romney, The Moderate, is back.

He spent the entire night talking about how he would help the middle class, keep Medicare and Social Security, and focus on education. Of course, he had to do all these things after the 47 percent remark. If you want to win the presidency, you have to win the middle and he was very congenial as opposed to being the red meat attack dog that we have seen for the last two years. In many ways, he essentially lopped off the far right from the campaign and...dare I say it?...shook the Etch-E-Sketch. I have to wonder...what is the base going to think about this?

The president seemed off his game tonight and I have to wonder why. Was he tired? Is there some sort of foreign policy crisis brewing that we don't know about? In many ways, this debate performance reminded me of President Bush's first debate against John Kerry (with Romney reminding me of Kerry as well) in 2004. He just didn't do a good job. The main thing I didn't like is he kept looking down, smiling and taking notes. He should've looked more often at Romney.

What's ironic about this is that the president's continued call for Romney to explain his specifics on things like what loopholes he would get rid of went unanswered. I was shocked that Jim Lehrer didn't to after this as well. Honestly, everyone seemed very nice and friendly....even down to the families getting together at the conclusions and chatting for a minute. I have to admit, it was kind of a nice break from all the ugliness.

I guess the group that I'm most PO'd at right now is the left wing pundits in the media. They are fit to be tied that the president didn't attack, attack, ATTACK!!! They have been whining all night about how he didn't mention the 47 percent and rub his nose in it. I don't think that would've worked at all and made him look less presidential. All of the undecided voters watching the debate on CNN reacted VERY negatively to any negative attacks.

In some ways, this is how the president is in a real bind. He can't be the attack dog that he needed to be to put Romney away for good but if he tries to rise above it all, he looks like he doesn't care which is essentially what happened tonight. I mean, we are talking about theater, after all:)

Of course, you could almost smell this in the air, right? The bullied and beaten up candidate..by his own hand and a rabid voting bloc...now...rising to the occasion and rising again...like the phoenix! The media just love this shit, right? We all knew that they would do this to keep people excited about the election. Well, in a few days, we'll see what the impact on the polls will be and we'll have a more accurate picture of the effect of this debate. If the CNN post debate interview with undecided Colorado voters is any indication, nothing will change. 8 flipped over to Obama and 8 flipped over to Romney!

In the final analysis, I don't think he's been bloodied enough in this election and he needed this kick in the teeth to avoid being complacent and resting on his lead in the swing states. It's certainly going to be an interesting rest of the week!

Or not.

Polls For Wednesday Oct 3rd

General Election: Romney vs. ObamaNational JournalObama 47, Romney 47Tie
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaGallup TrackingObama 49, Romney 45Obama +4
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen TrackingObama 49, Romney 47Obama +2
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaNPRObama 51, Romney 44Obama +7
Florida: Romney vs. ObamaNBC/WSJ/MaristObama 47, Romney 46Obama +1
Virginia: Romney vs. ObamaNBC/WSJ/MaristObama 48, Romney 46Obama +2
Ohio: Romney vs. ObamaNBC/WSJ/MaristObama 51, Romney 43Obama +8
North Carolina: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen ReportsRomney 51, Obama 47Romney +4
Texas: Romney vs. ObamaTexas LyceumRomney 58, Obama 39Romney +19
Virginia Senate - Allen vs. KaineNBC/WSJ/MaristKaine 49, Allen 44Kaine +5
Ohio Senate - Mandel vs. BrownNBC/WSJ/MaristBrown 50, Mandel 41Brown +9
Florida Senate - Mack vs. NelsonNBC/WSJ/MaristNelson 52, Mack 41Nelson +11
Missouri Senate - Akin vs. McCaskillRasmussen ReportsMcCaskill 51, Akin 45McCaskill +6
Texas Senate - Cruz vs. SadlerTexas LyceumCruz 50, Sadler 24Cruz +26
Generic Congressional VoteNPRRepublicans 45, Democrats 48Democrats +3
President Obama Job ApprovalGallupApprove 50, Disapprove 44Approve +6
President Obama Job ApprovalNPRApprove 50, Disapprove 46Approve +4
President Obama Job ApprovalRasmussen ReportsApprove 49, Disapprove 50Disapprove +1
Direction of CountryNPRRight Direction 39, Wrong Track 55Wrong Track +16

Couple things to note here on the day of the first debate. Ohio looks like it's gone for Romney. We have yet another poll in which the president is up in the high single digits. How can Romney get to 270 without it? He'd have to take all of the remaining swing states (one of which is now Missouri thanks to Todd Akin) and bring Wisconsin back to his side as well. It just doesn't seem very likely.

The NBC poll, btw, did not oversample Democrats.

Rasmussen has the president up 2 points while Gallup has him up 4 overall. Remember that Rasmussen does not poll cel phone users so the president's lead is likely wider than 2 points as many young people have cel phones but no land line.

At this point, the Senate is all but gone for the GOP. Quite a difference from just a few months ago when I predicted that the Democrats would be lucky to get a tie at 50-50. If the election were held today, I'd say the Democrats would net a +1 or a +2.

The same, however, can't be said for the House. The overly optimistic predictions that the Democrats will take back the House are silly. At this point, I'd say they'll net +15, putting the spread at 227 GOP-208 Democrat.

Deep Inside The Bubble

To give you an idea of how incredibly fictional the world is that the Right has created, take a look at this.

It is illegal for private citizens to own guns for selfdefense in eight states, and the number is growing with increasing Democratic control of state legislatures and governorships.

The excerpt above is from a letter sent "back in time" from 2012 to 2008 letting all the folks know exactly what would happen in the president's first term. Here are some other predictions..

then in May 2010, Al-Qaida operatives from Syria and Iran poured into Iraq and completely overwhelmed the Iraqi security forces. A Taliban-like oppression has taken over in Iraq, and hundreds of thousands of “American sympathizers” have been labeled as traitors, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The number put to death may soon reach the millions.

Since 2009, terrorist bombs have exploded in two large and two small U.S. cities, killing hundreds, and the entire country is fearful, for no place seems safe. President Obama in each case has vowed “to pursue and arrest and prosecute those responsible,” but no arrests have been made.

President Obama directed U.S. intelligence services to cease all wiretapping of alleged terrorist phone calls unless they first obtained a warrant for each case. Terrorists captured overseas, instead of being tried in military tribunals, are given full trials in the U.S. court system, and they have to be allowed access to a number of government secrets to prepare their defense.

What a strange world they live in...it's almost as if they are unmoved by facts, undeterred by new information, and have a hostile fear of progress..hmm...

I wonder how many of these predictions will simply be carried over to 2016. Oh wait, didn't they make a film about that? That would be the one where the companion book says the following...

Ann's sexual adventuring may seem a little surprising in view of the fact that she was a large woman who kept getting larger.

And they wonder why they are losing this election...


Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Polls For Tuesday October 2nd

General Election: Romney vs. ObamaQuinnipiacObama 49, Romney 45Obama +4
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaGallup TrackingObama 50, Romney 44Obama +6
General Election: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen TrackingObama 48, Romney 47Obama +1
Virginia: Romney vs. ObamaRoanoke CollegeObama 48, Romney 40Obama +8
Nevada: Romney vs. ObamaWeAskAmericaObama 53, Romney 42Obama +11
Missouri: Romney vs. ObamaWeAskAmericaRomney 48, Obama 45Romney +3
New Mexico: Romney vs. ObamaRasmussen ReportsObama 51, Romney 40Obama +11
Maryland: Romney vs. ObamaBaltimore SunObama 57, Romney 34Obama +23
Virginia Senate - Allen vs. KaineRoanoke CollegeKaine 47, Allen 37Kaine +10
Nevada Senate - Heller vs. BerkleyWeAskAmericaHeller 45, Berkley 45Tie
Missouri Senate - Akin vs. McCaskillWeAskAmericaMcCaskill 46, Akin 45McCaskill +1
Ohio Senate - Mandel vs. BrownPPP (D)Brown 49, Mandel 41Brown +8
Rhode Island Senate - Hinckley vs. WhitehouseWPRI/FlemingWhitehouse 56, Hinckley 30Whitehouse +26
Utah 4th District - Love vs. MathesonDeseret News/KSLLove 49, Matheson 43Love +6
Rhode Island 1st District - Doherty vs. CicillineWPRI/FlemingCicilline 44, Doherty 38Cicilline +6
President Obama Job ApprovalGallupApprove 48, Disapprove 45Approve +3
President Obama Job ApprovalRasmussen ReportsApprove 48, Disapprove 51Disapprove +3
President Obama Job ApprovalQuinnipiacApprove 48, Disapprove 49Disapprove +1
Obama: Favorable/UnfavorableQuinnipiacFavorable 50, Unfavorable 47Favorable +3
Romney: Favorable/UnfavorableQuinnipiacFavorable 45, Unfavorable 48Unfavorable +3