{"id":5031,"date":"2012-09-12T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2012-09-12T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:18:19","slug":"where-the-polls-on-obama-vs-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=5031","title":{"rendered":"Where the polls on Obama vs. Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From ABC News: The American public may be divided on “Obamacare,” but when faced with choosing a candidate to care for them if illness struck, President Obama is their man. By a 13 point margin – 49-36 percent – registered voters polled by ABC News chose the president over Mitt Romney to nurse them back to health.<\/p>\n

When asked who they thought “would make a more loyal friend,” the results were about the same. By a 50-36 percent count, respondents said Obama was more likely to stick with them through trying times.<\/p>\n

As for suppertime, still more ugly numbers for Romney. Fifty-two percent of registered voters polled by ABC News said they’d rather have Obama visit their homes for dinner. Just 33 percent said they’d prefer Romney at the table.<\/p>\n

But it’s not a total wipeout for the Republican. On what ABC News poll chief Gary Langer calls the most instructive question – which candidate they’d rather have “as the captain of a ship in a storm” – Romney loses to Obama, but by just three points, 46-43 percent.<\/p>\n

“Obama’s advantages, in turn, include a persistent lead over Romney in empathy; registered voters by 50-40 percent think Obama better understands the economic problems people are having, and continue to rate him as more personally likeable, by a broad and steady 61-27 percent,” Langer eports. “When the two views are tested against each other, empathy independently predicts vote preferences to a far greater degree than does likability.”<\/p>\n

These latest numbers will only build confidence among Obama and his supporters, as the Democrats appear to be enjoying a significant post-convention bump in the polls. The most recent figures have the president with a growing lead nationally, 50-44 percent, according to an ABC News\/Washington Post survey. Romney had been up a single point, 47-46 percent, in a poll taken just two weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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