Althouse: "Mr. Romney has pulled abreast of the president for the first time all year in the [Wall Street] Journal poll..."

October 21, 2012

"Mr. Romney has pulled abreast of the president for the first time all year in the [Wall Street] Journal poll..."

"... erasing a three-point lead among likely voters that Mr. Obama had in late September and a five-point lead earlier that month."

38 comments:

Strelnikov said...: Just like a Mormon to pull a breast to a knife fight.; 10/21/12, 10:25 AM
Paddy O said...: That's what happens when you have binders full of women.; 10/21/12, 10:27 AM
Strelnikov said...: Oh, snap!; 10/21/12, 10:29 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: It wouldn't surprise me to learn that you can see the blue veins in Romney's abreasts.; 10/21/12, 10:30 AM
Tim said...: Sagging indicator.

Preference cascade underway.

Numbers perking up for Romney.; 10/21/12, 10:31 AM
KCFleming said...: Let's have a look at those abreasts.; 10/21/12, 10:34 AM
wyo sis said...: Oh, what a bunch of unserious tea baggers you all are! ;); 10/21/12, 10:36 AM
Anonymous said...: This is totally false. I just spoke to one MSNBC assistant and a WH staffer. The word is that Nate Silver has told us at the WH that we are safe. That is, he is going to manipulate the polls so that GOP is up-beat but in reality we are pulling the Sting operation (as Redford in the movie with Newman).

You all are so un-informed that you cannot see what is in front of you. The election is OVER.

The press has decided on the election. The voters will do what they are told.

Why you refuse to accept this is beyond logic?; 10/21/12, 10:50 AM
clint said...: Ah, but *whose* breast did he pull? A breast of the President? Did he give Obama a titty-twister? (Did I miss the WWF "debate" this weekend?) Or is the Wall Street Journal ascribing ownership of the First Lady's breasts to the President? (Insert outraged 13th amendment remark and finish with "Raaaaacist!"); 10/21/12, 10:51 AM
edutcher said...: Looks like the Demos' boob job sprung a leak.

And, remember, this is also the MSLSD poll.; 10/21/12, 10:51 AM
Gahrie said...: Romney wins
Republicans take Senate
Republicans increase control of the House
Aiken wins; 10/21/12, 10:58 AM
Anonymous said...: Predictions (as I already voted yesterday).

- Obama wins, as expected as it is our destiny to not allow a minority to be defeated in his re-election.
- Senate GOP lose 4 more seats. Reid is the new King.
- House GOP lose 25+ seats. Pelosi is BACK.

The new Sec. of State is JFK.
The new Sec. of Tres. is Mayor Bloomberg
The new UN Ambassador is Bill Clinton.
The next SCOTUS nominee is Hillary Clinton.; 10/21/12, 11:08 AM
Rich Vail said...: Watch for a hysterical leftist reaction as more polls begin showing Romney ahead in the next two weeks. Already, on twitter, there are threats of blacks blowing up the White House or riots if Obama loses...

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/154804/; 10/21/12, 11:09 AM
Paul said...: I honestly feel most people (and I mean most) really are depressed with Obama's performance and the only reason they hesitate voting for Mitt is his 'Mormonism'.

Now I'm Catholic, and I do didn't care for him in the primaries, but after seeing him, his family, and more of what they are like I am quite comfortable with him and most certainly will vote for him.

And that is why you see the huge shift in voter polls. Many people now are more comfortable voting for him and the polls show it.

He will win. I hope by a landside there will be no question of who is president (unlike Al Gore and his fiasco law suit years ago.); 10/21/12, 11:09 AM
Roger J. said...: As the days dwindle down, pollsters have to establish their cred. On November 7 the marketers and political parties that hire these guys will something akin to "show me the money." I think you have the polls that, as nearly as I can oversample certain groups, start to realize they are about to lose big time on the 7th (not among the voters as the polls will be forgotten--but among their consitutents that hire them.); 10/21/12, 11:13 AM
Anonymous said...: The Code Pink womyn who dressed up as giant twats at the convention this summer made a terrible tactical mistake. They should have worn giant boob costumes instead.

Admittedly, dressing as either a boob or a twat would have been an accurate depiction of the wearer.

However, dressing up as twats gave Romney/Ryan openings they took advantage of.; 10/21/12, 11:13 AM
ALH said...: Romney pulled a breast! Scandal! Cue Gloria Aldred!; 10/21/12, 11:14 AM
Roger J. said...: "However, dressing up as twats gave Romney/Ryan openings they took advantage of." lol--no double entrendre there :) Well played, exile....; 10/21/12, 11:15 AM
Tim said...: Sandra Fluke better get busy while she can.

She's gonna run out of free birth control soon.

Then she'll have to pay for her own sex, or go without.; 10/21/12, 11:16 AM
Anonymous said...: Stop by the Oval to-night at 6 PM near the WH. Meet me and every-one in the COmmittee to Re-Elect (CORE) dedicated to the re-election of the greatest and the best POTUS in our world history.; 10/21/12, 11:25 AM
alan markus said...: Sandra Fluke better get busy while she can.

Consider it done!!

Fluke takes center stage in Reno (Sandra Fluke, the woman at the center of a media firestorm earlier this year after Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut,” spoke Saturday in front of about 10 people at the Sak ‘N Save in north Reno.); 10/21/12, 11:30 AM
Anonymous said...: Watch out pollsters, Justice's law suits are coming to make you "honest".

It's strange that the religious people who are supposed to value the separation of church and state care so much about Romney's Mormonism. He is faithful to his wife, never kill the unborn or let them die in the trash after they survived botched abortions, never take "stimulating" handouts from the govt., give to charity his wealth and time. He is a quintessential story book hard working, caring, self sufficient American. What the heck are those people saying that they can't vote for him because he's a Mormon?; 10/21/12, 11:34 AM
Cedarford said...: That's nice news, but what matters is the Swing States.
While national polls are more accurate than swing state polls, and can pull the swings states with them as trends go....
Obama still has a lead in some states Romney has to win.
And the black "Bosses" and union activists have pushed their people and "women moved by their ladyparts" to vote early, (before they can change their minds).
And in Ohio for example, Obama leads early voting 2 to 1.

Oddsmakers still favor Obama to win. 60-40 odds or 65-35 odds. But aren't taking anymore 65-35 odds since last week while still posting them. And a couple of London bookies have stopped taking legal bets - worried about their exposure. (Though many are playing Romney and counting on liberal Euros to bet hard on the Black Messiah); 10/21/12, 12:03 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Wow, you guys are easily distracted by breasts!; 10/21/12, 12:42 PM
Roger J. said...: Althouse: duhhh; did I every tell you about the worst breasts I ever saw? They were WONDERFUL; 10/21/12, 12:58 PM
Cedarford said...: Dunno, Roger...
I've seen some pretty ugly boobs in my life, and not just on the pages of National Geographic.; 10/21/12, 1:02 PM
Roger J. said...: C4--I am starting to worry about you. :)

BTW C4--I know this is off topic for which I may be chastised, but I would genuinely appreciate your views on US policy with respect to Syria--that topic seems to be flying under the radar. It looks like to me, by our inaction and vascillating, we may have allowed the Russians to gain a foothold in places not amendable to our national interest--Your thoughts, sir?; 10/21/12, 1:05 PM
Cedarford said...: Roger J - The Russians have had that base for decades - late 60s or early 70s.
The Russians need it. When the Soviet Union went down hard, we wondered if they would keep it. But the thinking was they had to have a southern Base outside the Black Sea and need for the Turks to bless their passage through the STraights of Bosphorus....critical trade routes when the Northern Ports are iced up need to be protected. That is, (Africa, ME, Asia) with huge trade each way.

As was, the new Russians abandoned all Naval Bases outside the former USSR BUT the vital Syrian one.
If they lost the Syrian Base, they would be on the line tomorrow to Egypt, Libya, Malta waving food, oil, money or whatever - to get a replacement Mediterranean base for refuel and replenishment of Russian, Ukraine, etc. commercial and naval vessels.

The US is mostly fine with that. Yes, it can allow the Russians to project power, make some mischief, but also forces them to be another infidel in the region now trying to keep a lid on things.; 10/21/12, 1:29 PM
Renee said...: But you will lose Sen Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Yes, Warren will win. Really sad.; 10/21/12, 1:34 PM
Roger J. said...: C4--thank you, and you are correct that from Czarist times forward the russians need some warm water ports. My concern is that we are not drawing much of a line in the sand with the russians--syria is the tip of the iceberg as you point out. If the russians want to make nice with the middle eastern powers we need to have some strategy to mitigate it. Perhaps thats what Obama mean when he told Medevev to tell Vladimar he, Obama, would have more flexibility after the election.; 10/21/12, 1:47 PM
McTriumph said...: CASCADE....10...9...8...7...6...5...4...; 10/21/12, 2:49 PM
wyo sis said...: We already know Massachusetts voters can't sustain enough self-control to keep a conservative in office even if they manage to shake off their socialisism once in a great while and elect a Republican to save their sorry hides. Massachusetts deserves EW if they're dumb enough to vote her in.; 10/21/12, 3:39 PM
Anonymous said...: Interesting. I'm not voting for either because my reservations about both are too strong and I think when people are bullied out of voting third party it encourages mediocrity and a bad poll read, but it's still a subconscious relief from dealing with the Obama hypnosis last election.; 10/21/12, 4:56 PM
Renee said...: wyo sis, the state GOP keeps putting up there 'moderate' republicans. We actually have a few good pro-life Democratics hidden in that group.; 10/21/12, 4:59 PM
Synova said...: Every darn time I scroll past this I read... Romney pulled a breast of the president... and I think what a riot that headline would be if the president was a woman.; 10/21/12, 9:11 PM
Synova said...: Ha!

Looks like everyone else read it that way too. I'm so ashamed of you all! LOL.; 10/21/12, 9:13 PM
Paul said...: - Obama wins, as expected as it is our destiny to not allow a minority to be defeated in his re-election.
- Senate GOP lose 4 more seats. Reid is the new King.
- House GOP lose 25+ seats. Pelosi is BACK.

U.S. Economy collapses under 20 trillion dollar debt and Obamacare mandates.
Iran goes nuke (as well as Egypt) and nukes Israel
Libya becomes a al qaeda quasi-state
North Korea nukes South Korea
World War III starts

-Romney wins
-Republicans take Senate
-Republicans increase control of the House
Iran pleads for mercy
North Korea goes belly up
We balance the budget and get rid of Obamacare
Western Europe slowly recovers from their recession.

It' one or the other folks.; 10/21/12, 9:30 PM
Rusty said...: Ann Althouse said...
Wow, you guys are easily distracted by breasts!

Yes. Yes we are.; 10/22/12, 7:12 AM