Rasmussen Connecticut Poll: Obama 51%, Romney 43%

[MorningInAmerica]

http://argojournal.blogspot.com/2012/08/poll-watch-rasmussen-r-connecticut-2012_23.html

Romney - 43%
Obama - 51%

Really? This close?

[Miles]

Entered.

Well, PPP had the race similarly close, though Rasmussen's Senate poll was an outlier, so Obama is probably up more.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

How cute. Rasmussen thinks Connecticut is going to be within less than 15 points.

[Person Man]

So Ohio is almost as Dem as Connecticut and Wisconsin is more Republican than Virginia or Colorado? 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

How cute. Rasmussen thinks Connecticut is going to be within less than 15 points.

So did PPP last month.  Connecticut is still safe for Obama, but the margin will be closer to 10 points than 15 points.

[Eraserhead]

So Ohio is almost as Dem as Connecticut and Wisconsin is more Republican than Virginia or Colorado? 

And this is why sometimes you need to trust your gut (and actual electoral history) over snap polls from partisans...

[Bandit3 the Worker]

And in other news, Todd Akin.

[Eraserhead]

How cute. Rasmussen thinks Connecticut is going to be within less than 15 points.

So did PPP last month.  Connecticut is still safe for Obama, but the margin will be closer to 10 points than 15 points.

At the end of the day, I doubt that very much. Even Gore won it by 17.5%.

[Tender Branson]

Maybe the really unpopular (™ latest polls) Democratic Governor has to do with it ...

[cavalcade]

As I have thought for some time, and possibly posted, Connecticut is one state where the Dem base's anger at private equity, hedge funds, Goldman Sachs, etc. could well hurt them.  And Romney, while a poor candidate for Ohio, is a good candidate for Connecticut for the same reasons.

[User157088589849]

Credible poll for me. Think the voters of shay and rell have come back to the republican party. Obama wins 56-43.55-44

[Svensson]

And in other news, Todd Akin.

What.

[Vosem]

How cute. Rasmussen thinks Connecticut is going to be within less than 15 points.

All polling shows Obama winning by less than 10 percentage points. Somewhere between 5-10 is probably what will happen.

Again, Connecticut is governed by very unpopular Democrats like Chris Donovan and Dan Malloy, and it's one of the states for which Romney is a good candidate. (Bain attacks will play very poorly in Connecticut.) This isn't enough to outweigh the Democratic advantage, but it'll be closer than usual.

And in other news, Todd Akin.

Your theory that Akin will sink the GOP is funny enough but has absolutely no connection to reality. It's effect on any election other than the Missouri Senate race is zero.

[MorningInAmerica]

How cute. Rasmussen thinks Connecticut is going to be within less than 15 points.

All polling shows Obama winning by less than 10 percentage points. Somewhere between 5-10 is probably what will happen.

Again, Connecticut is governed by very unpopular Democrats like Chris Donovan and Dan Malloy, and it's one of the states for which Romney is a good candidate. (Bain attacks will play very poorly in Connecticut.) This isn't enough to outweigh the Democratic advantage, but it'll be closer than usual.

And in other news, Todd Akin.

Your theory that Akin will sink the GOP is funny enough but has absolutely no connection to reality. It's effect on any election other than the Missouri Senate race is zero.

Akin is going to hurt in the short term (as today's tracking polls possibly indicate). But it will fade as an issue. Especially if he gets out, as this article indicates he may be considering (for about the third time): http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/23/akin-assessing-candidacy-with-conservatives-in-florida/