Poll: Obama widens Michigan lead over Romney to 10 points after convention

[TroyD]

President Barack Obama, fresh off a Democratic National Convention in which the turnaround of Michigan’s signature auto industry played a central role, heads into the final 2 months of the campaign with the state’s voters solidly behind him.

A poll done by EPIC-MRA of Lansing for the Free Press, WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) and other media partners showed Obama with a commanding 10-point lead over Michigan-born-and-raised Mitt Romney, whose chances in the state may have been seriously hurt by last week’s Democratic convention in Charlotte.

Democrats made the 2009 rescue of General Motors and Chrysler — and the jobs it saved nationwide — a central theme of the convention, with autoworkers, UAW President Bob King and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm among the speakers.

“When the whole theme for the Democrats is Osama bin Laden is dead and GM is alive … that’s got to help in Michigan and Ohio and a couple other states as well,” said EPIC-MRA pollster Bernie Porn.

In EPIC-MRA’s last statewide poll, an automated survey taken Aug. 28 before Ann Romney spoke at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, laying out a case for her husband Mitt to be elected, Obama held a slim 49%-46% lead over Romney. In the new poll, conducted from Saturday through Tuesday, Obama led Romney 47% -37%.

http://www.freep.com/article/20120912/NEWS15/120912090/obama-widens-lead-over-romney-to-10-points-michigan

[Democrats4All]

1. smart politics

it was very smart to play for the industrial midwest vote and use it as a centerpiece for the convention the dems are going to put 3 times the tv ad time in WI after the rep ad buy

[TroyD]

2. I guess Romney's birther joke didn't help him too much in Michigan

[Blue Yorker]

3. What is the date

The poll was conducted?

[TroyD]

4. "conducted from Saturday through Tuesday"

So I guess that means Septmber 8-11.