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Poll: Romney in the lead of White House race

Posted By: Siobhan Morris · 10/8/2012 5:31:00 PM

A new poll on the heels of the 1st US presidential debate has Republican Mitt Romney in the lead.

The survey from Pew Research Center has Romney at 49% support, Barrack Obama at 45%.  The poll was done in the 3 days after the debate Romney is widely considered to have won.

Pew's last poll done in mid-September had the President at 51% support with Romney trailing at 43%.

In a speech on Monday, Romney attacked Obama's foreign policy, saying the President had made things worse in the Middle East.

Romney's running mate Paul Ryan also said Monday their administration would green-light the Keystone XL Pipeline project that would carry oil from Alberta to Texas on their 1st day in office.

Ryan will square off with Vice President Joe Biden in a debate on Thursday.

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  1. independent posted on 10/08/2012 09:14 PM
    Long way to go yet. Americans love nothing more than a comeback story and that could easily happen after this first debate debacle for Obama.
  2. LuminolBlue posted on 10/08/2012 10:12 PM
    I don't trust polls to be perfectly honest. One says Romney is in the lead, another says Obama is. Polls are nothing but a generalization of public opinion, but a true poll would take the opinions of a very large sample. Of course, that--econimically speaking--wouldn't be practical so the general public is shown figures that don't really amount to much. Plus, let's not forget: Each poll has a margin of error, too, so if that's the case, how accurate is any poll? Not very, in my humble opinion.
  3. Only Common Sense posted on 10/09/2012 04:50 AM
    The John Birch Society, the American Liberty League, and the American Enterprise Institute - the first 3 founding groups of the Pew Research Centre - gee, do you think there might be a conservative bias to this poll? ... just sayin'.
    1. proton posted on 10/10/2012 10:40 AM
      @Only Common Sense you missed Public Policy and Gallup. Hardly the conservative bias you claim. Having said that polls can be notoriously inaccurate
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