Crisis, what crisis? Gallup poll shows Mitt Romney CLOSING to just one point behind Barack Obama
PUBLISHED: 12:45 EST, 18 September 2012 | UPDATED: 13:24 EST, 18 September 2012
Mitt Romney's presidential bid has been gleefully portrayed as doomed after a series of supposed stumbles that have delighted Democrats.
Voters, however, apparently view things rather differently.
Romney has closed to just one point behind Barack Obama - a drop of six percentage points in a week for the President, according to the latest Gallup tracking poll released on Tuesday. Obama is now on 47 points and Romney 46.
Dead heat: The Gallup poll released today shows Romney has closed the gap on Obama in recent days to just one point
The survey was taken before the current furore over comments made by the Republican nominee in a fundraiser at Boca Raton, Florida in which he said that 47 per cent of Americans were dependent on the government and 'it's not my job to worry about these people'.
But the poll, and another by Rasmussen that puts Romney two points ahead, strongly indicate that Obama's Democratic convention 'bounce' has all but evaporated and the 2012 race is wide open.
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Last week, Romney's comments about the Obama administration having 'apologised' to those who attacked the U.S. missions in Cairo and Benghazi were panned by the press and Democrats as crass and ill-judged given that four American officials had just been killed in Libya.
Close race: Obama, seen here jogging at a campaign event on Monday, has seen his convention bounce in the polls evaporate
With unemployment still at over eight per cent, however, and the August jobs report showing that just 96,000 jobs were added while 368,000 stopped looking for work, the economy remains the number one issue and on that Romney holds some significant advantages.
Romney remains behind by 2.9 per cent in the RealClearPolitics (RCP) national average and trails in the swing states of Florida by 1.4 per cent, Virginia by 2.8 per cent and Ohio by 4.2 per cent in the RCP averages.
But Senior Romney strategists remain insistent that their man is well placed to be the victor in November - and have independent polling evidence to back up their assertion.
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Us posies are starring in a movie called : "you are my puppet". It features the media feeding us their narrative and we act like sheep marching closer and closer to a place called Greece.
- adumbrate , Grand Rapids, 18/9/2012 20:37
I will vote for anyone running against the disaster in the White House. He has destroyed this country and it may never recover, My vote is not for Romney, it is against Obama.
- ValRides1966 , Chicago, United States, 18/9/2012 20:31
This should surprise absolutely no one who's actually on this side of the pond (the American side) and who actually realises just how vastly unpopular Barack Obama is, in the United States. And mind you, most of these polls that show the race merely 'close' survey only REGISTERED voters. When LIKELY voters are polled (and any pollster will tell you there's a big difference between registered and likely voters), Romney blows Obama out of the water. Mitt Romney is the next President of the United States -- like it or not. We're DONE with this strange Obama experiment. It was nice and different at first, but not anymore. He's the worst we've ever had.
- MeMyselfandI , Fairbanks, United States, 18/9/2012 20:28
Obama is toast only he doesn't know it. People in US incredibly angry at the complete and total mess he has made and will not give him a second chance. Wait and see..... and this is coming from a embarrased person who voted for him in 2008.....shamefaced now, should have listened to my dad!!!!
- zuers , ca. dreaming, 18/9/2012 20:23
The US economy has been in the loo for several years now. The fix was rather simple...but apparently waaaaay too difficult for the "brilliant "Obozo" and his crew of un-merry imbeciles. Instead of focusing on jobs and the economy...which is absolutely essential to any society, they used their two years of absolute control of Washington by pushing an agenda that met with resistance within their own party....the opposition was not even a factor. Try to get that truth out of the fawning Media...disgusting. Bottom line folks; American vote their pocketbooks and right now their pockets are very empty.
- James DiLeo , New Haven-CT, United States, 18/9/2012 20:19
47% - I guess Romney does know a little something about the electorate.
- Billybob , The Desert, 18/9/2012 20:14
The Obama regime is going to have to have another talk with Gallup...next time they're bringing the brass knucks.
- Richard Cranium , Literalville, United States, 18/9/2012 20:08
When you have virtually all the big media against you, when 80% of reporters, by survey, vote Democrat, when the academic world teaches how bad business and businessmen are, and how wonderful socialism would be, when career government workers labor overtime to help skew statistics to favor the left, and when Hollywood is in lock step with Democrat politicians.....to be almost even with Obama is already a triumph. The liberal media can hate Romney all they want, but he is still going to win.
- Bruce , Chicago, United States, 18/9/2012 19:59
Excellent article, DM. The United States mainstream press seems determined to win a second term for Obama. But it's just not working. All they've succeeded in doing is destroying their own credibility.
- Juno , Virginia, United States, 18/9/2012 19:58
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I think Romney had that video released to get the spotlight back on the ecomony.
- markd4lyph , LangleyOKusa, 18/9/2012 20:46
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