Obama loses ground to Romney in key measures of poll

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Washington Times:

Mitt Romney continues to hold a whisker-thin 1-percentage-point lead over President Obama in a head-to-head election match-up, but the former Massachusetts governor is eating into the president’s air of inevitability, according to the latest The Washington Times/JZ Analytics poll released Monday night.

The poll found Mr. Romney leading 43 percent to 42 percent — about the same margin as the poll in May, but Mr. Obama slipped on several key measures, including fewer voters who say they expect him to win, and fewer who say they are voting for him because he’s the best candidate.

Voters, who by a small margin say they agree with the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding health care, still seem in a mood to punish Mr. Obama for it — particularly among independents. The poll found 45 percent of self-identified independents said they are less likely to support the president now after the ruling, compared with 20 percent who said the ruling made them more likely to back him.

John Zogby, the pollster who conducted the survey, said Mr. Obama had been ticking upward in other polling last month, but the health care ruling appears to have arrested that momentum.

“What happened was he was leading on the basis of doing better among independents. But this time around, there’s a shift — still a lot of independents who are undecided, but Romney has the plurality now,” Mr. Zogby said. “The health care issue, at least at the moment, is tipping away from Obama among independents, and has caused other independents to kind of park themselves in the undecided parking lot.”

 

The nationwide survey of 800 likely voters was conducted Friday through Sunday, and the findings are in line with other major polls showing a tight race.

In the previous TWT-JZ Analytics Poll, taken in mid-May, Mr. Romney led by less than half a percentage point.

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"Self Identified" independents!!! One really has to wonder how many truly "undecided" LEGAL voters are still out there. After the last 3+ years of national disaster, can there really be anyone who actually "does not get it"???

 

This nation is divided. This nation has made up it's mind. Hopefully, there will be more wishing to eradicate the stain once and for all rather than let it continue to pollute the very office of president of the US.