Marist Poll: Obama, Romney locked in tight race in Va.
A new Marist Poll out Thursday has Democrat Barack Obama with a four-point lead over Republican Mitt Romney among Virginia voters.
Obama was at 48 percent in the poll, with Romney at 44 percent. The margin for the president is below the 50-percent threshold, indicating that the Old Dominion is still in play in the 2012 campaign.
“Already targeted by both the Obama and Romney campaigns, Virginia could become the ultimate battleground state,” says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “Obama carried the state by six percentage points in 2008. It is likely to go down to the wire this time.” Read more
Politcs Notebook: On the campaign trail
Poll: Obama leads Romney in PA by eight Public Policy Polling’s latest survey of Pennsylvania voters has President Barack Obama leading Republican rival Mitt Romney by eight points.
The 50 percent-to-42 percent lead is basically identical to the 49 percent-42 percent lead that Obama had over Romney in a March PPP poll.
Key to the Obama advantage is his relative popularity – with 48% approving and 49% disapproving of the job he’s doing as president, while Romney has 37% of voters rating him positively to 51% with a negative opinion. Read more
Politics Notebook: On the campaign trail
Kaine statement on U.S. Senate budget votes In response to the votes the U.S. Senate took on five proposed budgets yesterday, Tim Kaine released the following statement:
“The Senate voted down five bad budgets yesterday. They proved once again that they can block action, even on the most important and critical matters of the day. Read more
Goode: Romney ‘father of homosexual marriages’
Former Fifth District Congressman Virgil Goode blasted presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as “the father of homosexual marriages” in a statement released to the news media on the eve of Romney’s visit to Liberty University this weekend.
Goode, now running for president on the Constitution Party ticket, referred to Romney’s move as Massachusetts governor to issue same-sex marriage licenses in the wake of a state-court ruling. Read more
Poll: Obama up big in Virginia
A new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia voters has Democrat Barack Obama with an eight-point lead over likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
The Obama lead over Romney was at 51 percent-to-43 percent in the PPP survey. Public Policy Polling has had Obama leading Virginia by similar margins for much of the past year. Read more
Poll: Romney gaining with GOP nomination sewn up
Mitt Romney has gained four points on Barack Obama in the latest Public Policy Polling survey of voters, indicating movement among Republicans now that the former Massachusetts governor has all but sewn up the GOP presidential nomination.
Romney now trails Obama by a 49 percent-46 percent margin after trailing 49 percent-42 percent a month ago. His gains have come primarily among Republican voters, who now see him favorably by a 67 percent-22 percent margin. A month ago, Romney had only a +2 net favorability rating among GOP voters. Read more
