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Rasmussen has Romney up four; other polls show “enthusiasm gap” favoring Republicans

Aug 9, 2012

By Dave Andrusko

Pro-life Mitt Romney and Pro-abortion Barack Obama

The last item for Thursday’s edition of National Right to Life News Today, as it often is, is an update on the presidential race. Yesterday we talked about a Quinnipiac survey of  three “swing states” for CBS/New York Times. Romney is ahead in Colorado (50% to 45%) but trails Obama in Virginia (49% to 45%) and Wisconsin (51% to 45%).

There are two items worth mentioning today. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday “shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 47% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 43%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. The president enjoyed a bounce immediately following release of last week’s job report. However, the bounce has faded, and the race is back to where it was just before Friday’s report.”

The second item is the enthusiasm gap. As we talked about last month, Gallup reported a 12-point enthusiasm gap between Republicans and Democrats.

Also last month, the Republican polling firm Resurgent Republic found almost the exact same gap (62% of Republicans said they are “extremely enthusiastic,” compared with 49% of Democrats and 45% of independents).

Citing that same poll, Gary Bauer wrote today

Obama’s support among young voters has been cut in half. In 2008, Obama carried the youth vote by 34 points. Today he’s up by 18.

In 2008 Obama carried Catholic voters by nine points. Today they are evenly divided.

In 2008 Obama won 60% support from voters earning $50,000 or less. Today, just 53% support him.

There is a third point, about which I will only say a word. As we have written many times, the President’s re-election team obviously believes the way to win is to throw enough mud in enough directions that pro-life Mitt Romney’s image will be besmirched.

But one of its latest attack ads was so vicious and so patently untrue that even CNN’s Wolf Blitzer took the head of the organization responsible for it to task.

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Categories: Polling