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OH: Two polls show debate bounce for Romney

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By Jon Cassidy | Ohio Watchdog

ROMNEY: Two polls show his ratings have improved slightly since the debate.

COLUMBUS — Mitt Romney’s universally acclaimed performance in the first presidential debate has gotten him back in the race in Ohio.

Just a week ago, the GOP candidate was trailing by 8 to 10 points in almost all of the statewide polls.

But two polls conducted Thursday, the day after the debate, showed a dead heat. One put Romney a point ahead, one a point behind.

In a survey of 500 likely voters, Rasmussen Reports showed Democratic President Barack Obama leading 50 percent to 49 percent.

We Ask America surveyed 1,200 likely voters Thursday, and found Romney leading 47 percent to 46 percent. Josh Marshall, the editor of Talking Points Memo, says the firm is “a Republicanish pollster. But their numbers have been more reactive and bouncy than consistently Republican.”

Rasmussen had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points, and We Ask America had a margin of 3 percentage points.

We Ask America included Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson in its survey, and found just 1 percent support.

In a poll two weeks earlier, Gravis Marketing had found 10.6 percent support for Johnson, provoking some local discussion of whether Johnson would turn out to be a spoiler for Romney.

Both polls also showed Romney pulling into the lead in Virginia and Florida, other key swing states.

We Ask America had found Obama leading by 8 points in a July survey of Ohio.

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  • tommy

    These polls can change again and again and again why am i interested

  • http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.cassidy2 Jonathan Cassidy

    True. It’s all about turnout, anyway. I just do a little brief every now and then when there’s a big jump or drop with a clear cause.

  • http://www.dregstudios.com Brandt Hardin

    The dynamic duo of Romney and Ryan would drive the entire economy into a nose dive as long as it benefits the richest Americans. Income inequality is endangering the Middle Class and making paupers of us all who don’t have those millions upon millions of dollars. Read more about the role of Romney’s riches in this election and the power of his sacred undergarments at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/05/mitt-romneys-magic-mormon-underwear.html The working class of our country can’t AFFORD to allow this election to be bought and sold!

  • http://www.facebook.com/certifiednuts Jim Vance

    You apparently haven’t seen the latest polls. Obama has gotten a post debate, post Romney being caught in so many lies and misdirections bounce.

  • Dee

    God hope Romney gets in office before this country goes under.. Obama is nothing but a liar and there is blood on there hands. Amazes me how people will still for of Obama.

  • crybaby

    you’r a lier jim its all obamo fault .

  • DepthTested

    Take your meds, Jim. The delusions will stop.

  • Jazzee

    Please OHIO wake up….romney lies? seriously? obama lies every day to you about everything…please research him…take another look at obamacare and what new york is wanting to do ‘restrict doctor visits per year’ the whole law is a nightmare…obama will destroy this country
    a few lies: he didn’t end Iraq war Bush worked out the details, obama voted for TARP, obama voted against the money for Katrina because he didn’t want more military spending, obama is more worried about abortion being free than the soldiers in ‘his war’ which he NEVER SPEAKS ABOUT or cares…and then we have the 4murdered Americans in Libya and all those cute lies
    please…………there is so much more…fast and furious, the private emails they are all using to avoid history, etc. etc please WAKE UP
    check out what he wants to do with your I said YOUR 401k…go ahead not the UNION Pensions YOUR 401k…………………………….!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/zumadays Becky Marley

    I am looking forward to the next debate just to see Obama get mentally kicked around again!Obama has double talked so much and Mitt Romney made it very clear. He has also not used the nasty tactics that Obama has and that makes me happy that he will not stoop to Obama’s level.
    I pray that everyone takes their blinder’s off and remove their earplugs and see Obama for what he really is!

  • geddylee

    Saying Gary Johnson only has 1% of America’s support is like saying Ron Paul had nobody show up to his record setting rally’s for his campaign. Try again losers, we are not ‘falling for it’ this time. I have researched Gary Johnson and his record as Governor of Mexico – He is a man that can turn this country around. We had better do it NOW. Take the time to research and find the TRUTH. It is worth it if you have ANY loved ones you want to be safe in their own land. Let us get back to the values and fundamentals this once great nation was founded on. Integrity and truth never go ‘out of style.’ Gary Johnson 2012

  • http://www.facebook.com/kris.barnett.35 Kris Barnett

    I believe too, Dee, that there is blood on obama’s hands….so much we don’t know. Praying for our country morning, noon , and night.

  • MARIE HARPER

    YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT GO MR.ROMNEY

  • GREG

    HEY MITTY SHOW US R TAXES

  • GREG

    MITTY CANNOT TELL THE TRUTH

  • Ken

    Moron alert! He did show his taxes.

  • Ken

    @Jazee. Factchecks show Obama gave more inaccurate statements than Romney. Gosh! When does the Doctor tell the parents that this one at birth had brain damage!

  • Ken

    At least NFL owners are smarter than 47% of America. They are voting for Romney. Dalass Cowboys, Miami Dolphins….on and on…..Factcheck me at Newmax.com.

  • Ken

    Romney paid $1.94 million in taxes in 2011. How much did Obama pay?

  • Ken

    Gary Johnson should be ashamed at himself. If Obama gets re elected by 1% because of 1 swing state deciding the election, it will be all his fault that gas prices double again, Obama makes his secret deal with the Russians, and Israel get’s Nuked by Iran.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rick.sheldon.96 Rick Sheldon

    No Problem Dummy you never put all your cards on the table at once Mitt has his taxes tell obama to bring his school records, passport and real birth certificate…like I said no problem !!!!

  • tweet-tweet

    Mitt , has been there done that!

  • tweet-tweet

    Would be very nice to see President Obama’s school records, passport and birth certificate, Rick. .Dare we hope that we might be able to obtain this information by the next debate? I realize it has been a long time in coming!

  • tweet-tweet

    unbelievable-I love the new poll numbers!

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathleen.lambertstroberg Kathleen Lambert-Stroberg

    Are you serious? I bet you think nothing of it that George Worst Bush and Dick (He is one) Cheney are up to their eyeballs in the blood of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. At first I thought Republicons were stupid. Now I believe they are delusional and insane, living in some alternate reality that normal people know nothing about. How can you possible want to return to the chaos that Republicons have been creating for the past 35+ years.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathleen.lambertstroberg Kathleen Lambert-Stroberg

    Since Romney has about 250 million dollars and the President has nowhere near that, I suspect the President paid less in taxes, math wizard. Romney earned substantially more too. Ask to see his tax returns if you really want to know. Lots of people want to know.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathleen.lambertstroberg Kathleen Lambert-Stroberg

    Newsmax? Really? Is that like World Net Daily? Fox Noise? That is what is truly lame stream media.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathleen.lambertstroberg Kathleen Lambert-Stroberg

    You are delusional. Iran is years away from having a nuclear weapon. Go Gary.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathleen.lambertstroberg Kathleen Lambert-Stroberg

    Romney is a serial liar. Here are some pretty pictures to look at. This is what you want running the country.

    http://www.politifact.com/personalities/mitt-romney/statements/byruling/pants-fire/

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathleen.lambertstroberg Kathleen Lambert-Stroberg

    Don’t hold your breath. The President let him set himself up. Can you say ropa dope.

    http://www.politifact.com/personalities/mitt-romney/statements/byruling/pants-fire/

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathleen.lambertstroberg Kathleen Lambert-Stroberg
  • Tyler D.

    “If a birth certificate is required to become the Wal-mart greeter, it seems reasonable that one be required to become president of the United States.” -Truth #137 from “487 Indisputable Truths” by Jack L. Klinger http://www.487truths.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    Dee if you want Willard you want the liar then. Did you know he is told what to think DAILY by Adelson, Koch boys and Norquist? Just like Boehner. It’s ok, we will make sure he NEVER gets near the White House, I am volunteering to drive ANY Democrat to the polls that has no way to get there. I believe in EQUALITY for all. NOT for the rich old white dudes

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    BRAVO Kathleen, guess they “forgot” what GW and Cheney did and why they should be in prison. Let’s just discuss how wonderful Willard is when he hides his money out of country. DESTROYS companies, and for all the religious that are all over him…HAS NO IDEA OF WHO JESUS IS

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    Ken is that is 14%? the one that was inflated (at his admission) to make him look better and the one that he can re do after the election to get his money back? I pay a higher percentage than he does. BTW his money paid includes his giving his 10% to his church. That is not an option, it is required in his group. So that means he paid 4%? Yeah that’s really patriotic

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    Jazzee when he bring HIS FORTUNE back into this country and pays taxes on it. Well, then I will at least consider him an American

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    U bet their ass they are. HUGE companies are voting for him because he has them in HIS pocket. ONE more reason I won’t vote for Willard

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    Only brain damage is with the people that would vote for Willard, so he can destroy you and you say thank you sir for killing me

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    YEAH Kathleen

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    Ken you are stupid, don’t you even realize the President NO MATTER WHAT PARTY doesn’t control the price of oil? Damn man, quit picking your nose and do some investigating. Hell GW had oil prices higher than Obama ever did. I am so proud to say I am voting for Obama as an independent. Yeah that mean I use my brain. Maybe before you state incorrect info you could read a bit. It could help you

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    Yes sir we agree you are a moron

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    We did see President Obama’s birth certificate, We haven’t seen Willards. Remember his father was in Mexico. There are two choices with Willard, he’s Mexican or from another planet. Maybe Golob where he will go when he dies, with his virgins and many wives. LMAO. Talk about the ignorance of men. You are proof

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    Don’t you love the unemployment rate at 7.8? President Obama got a bump from that too. LOL Willard the rat is OUT

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    damn Crybaby you need a bit of education in your life.

  • http://www.facebook.com/carol.friedhoff.5 Carol Friedhoff

    PS you didn’t mention the bump President Obama got from the 7.8 unemployement status. Yeah even the Republibaggers that scream the books were toasted are being jumped by the people that have done the reporting for 70 years. IDIOTS believe in Willard

  • Amy

    I agree Becky he made Obama look like crap… and did not even have to get nasty.. i loved it.. People are not very smart and dont look at the record of his last four years. He has not done crap.. nothing for us but put us in a hole we will have a hard time gettting out of.. what about all the people needing jobs to support their families.. that is what i care about.. I save give Mit a try what can we loose we have lost so much already…

  • http://www.facebook.com/bill.markley1 Bill Markley

    Carol You are a nice example of the uninformed liberals that have no clue what they are talking about. Just make up whatever you think sounds good and hope other idiots will repeat it until it comes true. Please educate yourself. He gave $4MM of his $16MM pre-tax income to charity and then paid $1.94MM in taxes. And while it may be expected to donate 10% of you income to your church no one is requiring him to do so. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/romney-to-release-2011-tax-returns/

  • http://www.facebook.com/bill.markley1 Bill Markley

    From someone that links politifact

  • http://www.facebook.com/bill.markley1 Bill Markley

    says the uneducated five year old on the message board

  • HEDHNTR

    How did Obama go from a net worth of 1.3 Million in 2008 to 10.8 Million net worth in 2011?? That’s just Obama’s net worth …his wife’s net worth is a another matter. Wake up Obama & Romney are part of the same Coin..Just different sides of the coin.
    Romney and Obama are both extraordinarily talented and smart. That’s
    what it takes to pull off the world’s biggest hoax. In their public
    debates, they must shamelessly play along with the expectation that they
    are masterminds of history’s largest and most expansive government with
    thousands of departments, millions and millions of regulations,
    astonishingly complex networks of graft and corruption, and legacy
    content dating back more then a century, and, further, claim — with a
    straight face — that their personal “vision” can encompass and control
    the whole apparatus, and, by extension, the nation and the world. They
    must pull off this ostentatious and wildly implausible display of the
    pretense of knowledge with the look and feel of genuine conviction.
    Anyone who can do this has to be pathological, if he believes what he is
    saying, or duplicitous to an extent that vastly exceeds the human norm.
    It’s all mightily impressive, so much so that the entire show could and
    should be moved to Broadway as a profitable venture. In that way, it
    could become consumer-pleasing entertainment rather persist in what it
    actually is: the biggest threat to peace, prosperity, and freedom in the
    world today.

  • http://www.facebook.com/joe.krukowski.1 Joe Krukowski

    obama has don nothing for us yet what will he bring the next 4 years the same thing nothing cant aney one see or are u stell blin he going to get us ferther indet wack up and GOD BLESS THE U.S.A

  • GrassyassMofos

    That’s of Mitt Witt’s money he reported. He didn’t pay on the other hidden accounts in the Caymen Isles. You republibots are soo stupid. You don’t even care the Romney is a convicted child molester.

  • GrassyassMofo

    Bill You are a nice example of the uninformed cons that have no clue what they are talking about. Just make up whatever you think sounds good and hope other idiots will repeat it until it comes true. Please educate yourself. He gave $4 of his $16 pre-tax income to whores and then paid $1.94 in taxes. And while it may be expected to donate 100% of you income to your church God is requiring him to do so. http://www.theonion.com/articles/speculation-about-romneys-taxes,28927/ And the rest is hidden in the Caymen Isles with the rest of his Drug Money from his Cocain Empire.

  • Edward

    Keep hoping. When Mittens loses are you moving to Mexico, Canada, Europe?

  • Ronald Reagan

    Yes, please go

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathy.m.bryce Kathy Moore Bryce

    He paid more of a % than Romney did. Romney also overpaid to get to the almost 14% which shows he is a fraud. He knows he can do an amended return.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathy.m.bryce Kathy Moore Bryce

    I agree on your 1st part but to be honest I don’t believe he has ever been convicted of anything. Leaders of the Mormon church yes but not Romney. He would not be allowed to run if that was so. Please we as Democrats don’t need to stoop to outlandish falsehoods. Romney’s record on outsourcing jobs, money in foreign banks, investments overseas, corporate raiding. Then he acts as if he is a Christian but he is a Mormon, read upon that religion. People talk about how Obama is trying to run things. What in the world do you call R&R wanting to overturn Roe vs Wade? Stop funding to planned parenthood. They do want to have Insurance pay for BC pills but they are fine with viagra. How stupid is that? They want to give more tax cuts to the rich as”it will create jobs.” If that was the case how did we get into this mess? They have had those tax cuts for years. They still continued to send jobs to China and other countries where they can get child labor. Now that should make him a criminal.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathy.m.bryce Kathy Moore Bryce

    Asides from all the other nonsense you posted what in the world does money for Katrina have to do with military spending? There was a bill that included ending the Iraq war. Here are some facts about his voting on all that. I see you watch a lot of fox/faux news, Fox’s Eric Bolling suggested that President Obama was hypocritical in his criticism of the government’s response to Katrina by claiming Obama voted against waiving a bill that restricted emergency funding while accusing former President Bush of refusing to waive those same funds. But Obama, who strongly supported the measure, voted for a previous version of the bill which would have provided the same relief funds, but also included a timetable for withdrawal from the Iraq war.
    While hyping the Daily Caller’s 2007 video that purportedly showed “racially-charged rhetoric” from then-Senator Obama, The Five co-host Eric Bolling claimed that Obama voted against waiving the Stafford Act, which mandates local governments match a portion of federal relief funds, while attacking the government for not waiving the Act:. But Bolling’s attack is way off base. Then-Senator Obama did vote to waive the Stafford Act for Katrina relief. In fact, he was one of the Senate’s major proponents for waiving the Stafford Act.
    In 2007, two similar supplemental spending bills contained funding for Katrina relief that was not subject to Stafford Act restriction. At the time Obama opposed one version of the bill because it did not contain a timeline for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. In a May 24, 2007, statement explaining his vote against the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, Obama said: “With my vote today, I am saying to the President that enough is enough. We must negotiate a better plan that funds our troops, signals to the Iraqis that it is time for them to act and that begins to bring our brave servicemen and women home safely and responsibly.”
    While Obama voted against the 2007 supplemental spending bill Eric Bolling is referring to, he voted for the other version of the supplemental bill that included both a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq and a waiver for the Stafford Act that would provide relief to New Orleans. In fact, Obama was a strong, consistent proponent of waiving the Stafford Act for Katrina recovery. According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune (accessed via Nexis), Obama had called for unrestricted relief funding in January of 2007:
    Lieberman and Landrieu were joined by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a presidential hopeful who made the most of the opportunity offered by a swarming international media to say he was “embarrassed” by the White House’s handling of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.[...]At the hearing Monday, Obama seemed unsatisfied with many of the answers Powell gave. Asked why the federal government had not waived the requirement of a 10 percent matching payment from local governments for cleanup and public buildings, as it had for Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York, Powell said it didn’t need to because the state could pay the match using federal money.
    Less than an hour later Fox’s Special Report aired a segment based on Bolling’s manufactured conspiracy. Host Bret Baier explained that the Stafford Act “was waived by Congress in late May, 2007″ just weeks before Obama’s speech at Hampton University. Baier continued, “then-Senator Obama actually voted against the bill that included the prevision for New Orleans because it was part of the bill that increased Iraq War funding.” Baier also did not note that Obama had voted for an earlier supplemental bill that included the Stafford Act waiver for New Orleans relief:. Were you able to understand any of that without the help of fox news twisting the facts to suit their own agenda. Fox/Faux news is far right liars.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathy.m.bryce Kathy Moore Bryce

    well of course they are. They are rich so your point would be?

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathy.m.bryce Kathy Moore Bryce

    He has now showed a total of 2 years MORON! This last 1 he overpaid to get the tax % he has stated he pays,14%. He has 3 years to file an amended return, which you can be sure he will be doing. He also said anyone who overpays their taxes isn’t fit to be president. LOL well at least he got something right. Romney at one point stated ”
    that anyone that overpaid their taxes isn’t qualified to be President.”

  • MM from Georgia

    Rich old white dudes ? She sounds like a male-hater, and a lover of socialism. Democrats in Congress are richer than Republicans. Obama is the candidate of white elitists. I figured someone would reflexively bring up the Koch brothers and Grover Norquist, all hated by the left. Isn’t $4 gas wonderful ? Don’t forget – Biden, a 40-year tax feeder, the 82- interruption man, voted against the Alaskan Pipeline in the 1970s, one of only five senators to do so. Be careful how you vote – you’ll never find a Demo who supports term limits or tax rate cuts and you could be stuck with a bombastic Bork-bashing blowhard like Biden. I’ll put Judge Robert Bork’s IQ up against that of vice plagiarist Joe anytime. The left loves the Death Tax, also. You can never pay enough in taxes. Taxes plus charity : Mitt kicks in around 42 percent of his income. By all accounts Mitt is a nice and generous fellow. Mormons I’ve known have all been straight ahead folks. Any religion has beliefs not all will agree with. I don’t agree with their no caffeine stance. I’m hooked on coffee. Where I live Mitt is way out in front.

  • http://www.facebook.com/edith.little.9 Edith Little

    this is libel and you should be held accoutable for your statement. if I knew how to report this to the posting I would

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000134428066 Lawrence Chapman

    so you are racist

  • JanetfromwesternNE

    Oh, wow! News flash! Romney is ahead in Georgia? Who would have thunk it? DUH!

  • JanetfromwesternNE

    Goodness…you express yourself in such an eloquent and literate manner. Actually the words in capitals were the only ones recognizable as English!