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Obama, Romney Essentially Tied In Florida
May 10, 2012
President Barack Obama and his presumptive GOP opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, are in a statistical dead heat in the nation’s largest swing state about six months before voters Florida head to the polls, according to a new poll from Suffolk University and WSVN-Miami.
The survey shows Obama holding 46 percent of the vote to Romney’s 45 percent, with 7 percent undecided. But Romney’s selection of a running mate could swing the results — with 47 percent of voters backing a ticket with Romney and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, compared to 44 percent for Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
A ticket with Romney and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush would lead Obama-Biden by a 47-45 margin.
In January, the Suffolk/WSVN poll showed Romney with a 47 percent to 42 percent lead over Obama as the Republican primary was getting underway.
“Despite locking up the Republican nomination and a strong showing in the Florida Republican primary in January, Romney still has a lot of work to do to win over Florida voters,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, in a news release. “He would need to repair the fallout of negativity from the Republican primaries by being more likable and offering general-election voters a positive alternative to President Obama.”
The poll, which has a margin of error of 4 percent, included telephone interviews of 600 registered voters from May 6-8.
By The News Service of Florida
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“How do you elect being Christian, a man who has dedicated his life to Mormon – - – ”
No matter how the vote goes, most politicians aren’t Christians and most people who consider themselves Christians will privately admit that most of the others who consider themselves to be Christians really aren’t. And yet we keep electing politicians to office because they are the only ones running.
Vote for the best and pray for the rest.
Of course the duty of a Christian is to pray for those in office and obey all laws they can obey in good conscience, treat others the way they would like to be treated, love their neighbors (not just the neighbor’s wife) and spread the good news of Jesus as they understand it.
Do all that perfectly and then see how much spare time you have.
David the sinner
Mitt Romney does not yet have the Republican nomination locked up.
I hope Mitt chooses someone more crazy than he is for vice president. Then it’s an easier election…but if I were to guess he’d choose Marco Rubio to tey and stir the latin vote.
Americais is in a mess. We simply do not have a good choice to vote for for President. We need to pray for our leaders but most of all we need to pray for some leaders. The people we have running our country is not the quality of persons we need. The President is a big disappointment to all who voted for him (not Me) and if re-elected will further destroy this country and it’s moral values.
Vote for No One in office now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A mormon and a muslim, all we need now is that hindu guy out of louisiana.
How do you elect being Christian, a man who has dedicated his life to Mormon that is a sect that doesn’t believe in the Holy Trinity, that Jesus Christ is savior of the world, he believes that you can baptize people into Mormonism that are not believers in their sect and they join you on another planet when you die. If the man can’t figure out Christianity how is going to figure out a budget or moral values.
Sorry, Jesus Christ is my savior, He was not just a prophet, the Holy Trinity is real and alive and Joe Smith was crazy!!