WI-Rasmussen: Obama up by double-digits

[Tender Branson]

52% Barack Obama (D)
41% Mitt Romney (R)

51% Barack Obama (D)
39% Rick Santorum (R)

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/wisconsin/election_2012_wisconsin_president
 

[Tender Branson]

Rasmussen's state numbers are not matching up with their national numbers.

Nationally, Rasmussen has Romney 2 points ahead of Obama.

Yet in Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia, Florida, Nevada Obama has a moderate lead over Romney.

[marvelrobbins]

Of course not.The national numbers Is RAS's way of going on Fox and saying either how much trouble Obama Is In or Romney IS competive,and the state numbers allows RAS to stay It IS
still credable pollster.

[Reds4]

Completely agree with that... no way Romney is up 2 nationally and losing by a significant margin in Ohio, Virginia, Florida...

Rasmussen's state numbers are not matching up with their national numbers.

Nationally, Rasmussen has Romney 2 points ahead of Obama.

Yet in Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia, Florida, Nevada Obama has a moderate lead over Romney.

[pbrower2a]

It's the state numbers that count. The only way in which the Presidential election is close in the likely popular vote while the President is leading as he is now in such states as Florida, Ohio, and Virgina is that the President is down by 40% in some of the states that he is behind in. Is that possible? Such would be an exaggeration of the 2008 Presidential election, the most exaggerated election in statewide margins in decades.

I have noticed from FoX coverage of the 2012 election that the management is grasping at straws to smear the President... and in the event of imminent failure FoX will most likely shift its emphasis to Congressional races.

Remember -- the States elect the President; the People do not.

[Lief]

Historically (at least in 2010), Rasmussen's national numbers were much more accurate than their state numbers (though their state numbers were inaccurate because they were too Republican, the opposite of the current situation). 

[Secretary of Labor Earthling]

That may be true, but Rasmussen's state numbers are more in line with other pollsters and seem to be genuine, in contrast to the national numbers.

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Database entry: http://uselectionatlas.org/POLLS/PRESIDENT/2012/polls.php?action=indpoll&id=5520120327016