“President Barack Obama leads Republican nominee Mitt Romney 49 percent to 45 percent in the battleground state of Iowa, a new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll has found,” the newspaper reported on Sunday
“Iowa is familiar turf for both candidates. They each campaigned heavily here four years ago during the caucuses. This year, each candidate has visited the state half-a-dozen times or more, has sent his vice presidential running mate for repeated visits and dispatched his wife to rally support. And from April through August, the candidates and groups that support them bombarded Iowa with nearly $30 million in television ads.
“The result: Almost all likely voters in Iowa have made their choices. Four percent support someone other than the two major party candidates. Just 2 percent remain undecided, the poll shows.
“But 10 percent say they could still be persuaded to vote for another candidate, the poll found, and that represents an opening for Romney. Another opportunity: persuading more Iowans he can fix the economy, viewed by likely voters in the poll as a priority issue.”
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I kinda feel cheated as I don’t like everything tat Obama has done, but when I look at Romney I wish this guy was more of a “normal” individual…..
When your party selects Sarah Palin over you (as was done in the last election) I have to wonder what’s going on with this party?
I seriously have to wonder about voting for Romney based upon this, as I may not like Obama on specific issues, but I like Romney even less and my vote is going to be a satisfaction based vote.
I wish that Hilary was running, as she has proven to be extremely sharp, and with Bill being with her for guidance, I think that she would be a very capable leader!
Hmmpf. She would be capable because she has Bill for guidance? How do you know it wasn’t Bill who succeeded because he had Hilary for guidance?
Very good point Sharon, all I was trying to say is that Bill seems to still have a very good handle on the ins & out’s in Washington, and I was not discounting Hilary in any manner,
I think that she would be a very good candidate (and if Bill could keep his pants on) they would make a great team that has a history of getting things done!
In Iowa, the Romney and Obama ads run nonstop in between the NFL games,
Jeff: I am not sure that the ads achieve much. What demographic watches television? What demographic obtains its news/entertainment/etc via internet? What demographic are the undecided voters, (indeed if any voter is undecided what rock have they been hiding under for the last few months)?
Welcome to being a swing state in a quasi democratic form of government that is up for sale to the highest bidder. I have posted this before and think it is one of the most precise summaries of what our political system has regressed into.
“Nothing in our Constitution addresses political parties or partisanship. However, over the past 30 years, political parties have presented partisanship as the only operating paradigm. Our government has become less representative because that’s what BOTH parties want..”
Here is the import part we are seeing especially after the democracy killing Citizens United decision.
“They fight for campaign dollars instead of votes, then use those dollars to manipulate opinion in an effort to frighten voters to take their side. This was not what the founders envisioned for our grand republic.”