USAToday/Gallup: Romney breaks 50 against Obama, Santorum trails by 1

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At this rate the entire first page of threads here will consist of 'outliers, outliers, outliers!'.

Well, you explain why this should be the case, genius.

It is an outlier, since no other polls show anything like this happening. That's the definition.

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If gas does go up to seven or eight bucks a gallon it might be possible to get some sort of actual change in the way life is lived in this country that will make things better in this world, but then again even after what's considered 'normal' has more than doubled it hasn't happened yet.

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The formation of Massachusettstan?

I'd be all for that...

One thing that Texas and New England have in common is that both people inside them and people outside them can get pretty gung-ho about the idea of them not being part of the United States any more.

Though that wasn't what I was thinking of. My assumption was that we could actually maybe focus on finding some way to meet our energy needs that did not emit putrid smoke or at least emitted it in less immense quantities, not that it would lead to some sort of Mad Max-style balkanization. Call me a dreamer.

I'd certainly rather not prejudice your ability to get to El Paso or Beaumont, but I'd like for there to be a way for you to get to El Paso or Beaumont that doesn't poison the area between you and El Paso or Beaumont. I think we all want this unless we have perverse incentives not too, we just all have different ideas about how to attain it.

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Synthetic gas generated by nuclear plants would be a fabulous idea, and it's certainly possible to make gas-powered automobiles much, much more efficient--indeed, good work in this is already being done. Synthetic gas would also have the advantage of being exactly as American-made as we needed or wanted it to be. Of course, I'd support inter-city rail lines as well, because I live in a pretty rural area (there are rural areas in Massachusetts!) and I know how annoying that can be. I'm lucky the buses in my particular little area are decent.

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How can Obama suddenly trail Romney after the economy started improving?

Less focus on Romney maybe?

Once he surges back then I expect Obama to start leading again, and Santorum's too out of the mainstream on social issues to be elected.

Yeah. Romney's 'Generic R' right now.