New Reuters/Ipsos poll: Obama's lead over Romney grows

[cali]

Obama expands lead on Romney: poll

WASHINGTON | Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:16pm EDT

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama expanded his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 6 percentage points in the White House race this month as voters became slightly more optimistic about the economy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.

Four months before the November 6 election, Obama leads Romney among registered voters 49 percent to 43 percent. Last month, Obama held a slim 1-point lead over the former Massachusetts governor.

Obama's improved standing was fueled by a rise in optimism about the future, with the number of Americans who think the country is on the wrong track dipping 5 percentage points to 58 percent.

Obama's approval ratings ticked up 1 point to 48 percent and the number of Americans who disapprove of Obama's job performance dropped 3 percentage points to 47 percent.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/10/us-usa-campaign-poll-idUSBRE8691DP20120710

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. kick

[warrior1]

2. kick and rec

[spanone]

3. the new washington post poll has the race tied. bullllllshit.

President Obama, Mitt Romney deadlocked in race, poll finds

A pair of tepid jobs reports, landmark Supreme Court decisions on health-care and immigration laws, and an unprecedented barrage of negative ads have shaped the opening months of the fall presidential campaign. The impact on the horse race: virtually none.

According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remain in a deadlocked contest, tied at 47 percent among registered voters and basically where they stood in late May.

The new numbers reflect a stubborn constancy: Only twice in 13 surveys over more than a year has either candidate held a lead exceeding the poll’s margin of sampling error. Now, the campaign appears destined to remain extremely close in the final four months before Election Day.

The fundamentals seem firmly planted: About two-thirds of Americans consider the country seriously off course, a majority have not approved of Obama’s overall job performance in more than a year, and the president remains in negative territory on dealing with the economy, health care and immigration. Also unmoved since fall are Americans’ attitudes toward spending, with as many saying they would prefer an increase in federal spending to try to spur economic growth as wanting to prioritize deficit reduction.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obama-mitt-romney-deadlocked-in-race-poll-finds/2012/07/09/gJQAaJwdZW_story.html

[Dalai_1]

4. K&R n/t

[Rosanna Lopez]

5. Reuters/Ipsos

The Reuters/Ipsos poll is good because it helps off-set the other polls today which show a Tie or a small lead for Romney.

However, I believe Reuters/Ipsos has demonstrated a bit of an in-house bias towards Obama this year, so it tends to be one of his good polls just like Rasmussen and Gallup have been pretty good to Romney so far.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. Thanks!

[SlimJimmy]

10. I never look at registered voter polls. To get a much better picture, look at the

likely voter polls. They are much more reflective of the actual numbers. So with that in mind, it looks like President Obama holds a slight lead in two polls, and Romney holds a slight lead in two other polls. I say it's going to be very very close in November. Let's not get sucked in by these registered voter polls that show the President outside of the MOE.

Democracy Corps (D) 6/23 - 6/27 1000 LV 3.1 49 46 Obama +3

Wash Times/JZ Analytics 7/6 - 7/8 800 LV 3.5 42 43 Romney +1

Rasmussen Tracking 7/8 - 7/10 1500 LV 3.0 45 46 Romney +1

Newsweek/Daily Beast 6/28 - 6/28 600 LV 4.0 47 44 Obama +3

[scheming daemons]

11. Thanks for your concern.

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. I feel good about the prospects of the President winning reelection. I think he probably will

but in the end - we don't know. We can only do our best to help make it happen.

[99th_Monkey]

8. The more money Rmoney $pend$ spewing lie$

the more desperate and pathetic he looks.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. They just can't give Obama 50% or over!

What a joke!

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. These national popularity polls are interesting, but...

...largely meaningless, no? I want to see the polls for Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Virginia, etc.

This isn't a popular vote, it's an electoral college vote.

[billky]

13. voter repression

I don't understand why everybody thinks certain people are having their voting rights taken away. If people really think that, they have been screaming about it forever. Get out in the neighborhoods and make sure people have what they actually need to vote. Talking about it day after day is not going to do anything. If this works to take away votes from Obama; I'm sorry, but there has been time to fix whatever they're trying to mess up.