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White House race tight in 4 key states; Obama up in Virginia
Yitzhak Benhorin, Reuters
Published: 02.11.12, 00:09
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1. Obama/Romney need Govt.of National Ynity
Roland Seener ,   London England   (11.01.12)
2. I am voting Obama
Yossi ,   Los Angeles   (11.01.12)
3. Misleading
Steve ,   USA   (11.01.12)
There are many polls out there in election land. Some with left leaning intent, some with right and some averaging them out. This poll or polls that are being used in this article are wwwaaayyyy left! Early voting on average has gone to Romney. and the race in dead even Nationally.
4. Obama=Carter History will judge both as failed Presidents
Mike ,   Israel   (11.01.12)
5. 47% consistent!
charles   (11.01.12)
obama is constantly at 47%. was romeney correct? hmm?
6. # 3
Birdi ,   Israel   (11.01.12)
Good to know this. Thanks Steve.
7. If voters in israel voted Romney 6:1
BALONEY!   (11.01.12)
Hussein will surely lose big.
8. Obama helped Romney by going back to campaigning after sandy
zionist forever   (11.01.12)
Whilst polls don't necessarily reflect how people will actually vote on election day Obama has just thrown Romney a lifeline. After Sandy Obama want around the country hugging people who had lost everything, making speeches and just generally looking very presidential and showing leadership skills all Romney could do was try and get a little media coverage doing the same sort of thing and of course as he was the president Obama was the only one anybody was seriously interested in. If Obama had kept Sandy as his top priority rather than rushing to campaign again he could have taken all the limelight from Romney, made himself look good and Romney would be unable to criticise. Instead Obama has had his day of being the statesman and decided to get back to campaigning which is what Romney needs to be able to do but can't as long as Sandy is the thing Obama is talking about. Romney is going to have to find something special to beat Obama at this late stage. a good start might be to donate some of his campaign funds to a charity that helps the vicitms of Sandy. Newspaper headlines nationwide next day: ROMNEY DONATES MILLIONS TO SANDY VICTIMS. Obama of course would follow his example but Romney would have taken the lead in being charitable.
9. Likely voters are what count and not registered ones.
michael redbourn ,   Arad Israel   (11.01.12)
The two biggest and best polling companies use likely voters. Rasmussen has for years and Gallop changed their system a month ago. Rasmussen has Romney +2 Gallup has Romney +5 Obama made a huge mistake by simply attacking Romney and offering no game plan. Imagine you're a liberal and Obama keeps saying that Romney is a douche-bag or whatever but offers nothing new. You weren't going to vote for Romney anyway so what did he change? What changed is that you might not bother to vote for Obama. Republicans will vote on mass and many Dems will stay at home.
10. #2 - you're unemployed? Needing a hand-out?
michael redbourn ,   Arad Israel   (11.01.12)
11. Thanks American Jews.
Akiva   (11.01.12)
12. Romney will win by landslide
Brod ,   USA   (11.01.12)
Forget the Leftist Polls that are skewed toward Obama. Obama must have paid them millions of dollars to fool the American people. The fact is Romney will win by a landslide victory. Americans are sick of 4 years of massive unemployment and underemployment, rising gas price, 16 trillion dollars in national debts/deficits, millions of home foreclosures, rising Islamist-Jihadist terrorism in America and in the world, etc under Obama. More recently, Obama and his cohorts have the temerity to lie and cover up on the Islamist-Jihadist terrorist attack in Libya that murdered 4 Americans including the Ambassador, and destroyed the American Embassy.
13. REUTERS POLLS DON'T MEAN ANYTHING
Scott ,   Ramat Gan, Israel   (11.01.12)
14. Don't believe these polls!!!
Jake Stone ,   USA   (11.01.12)
These polls are heavily left-biased. Romney is ahead; he'll win by atleast 7% points. Won't be close!!!
15. There goes Obama again....
Vlad   (11.02.12)
All he can do is badmouth his opponent.
16. There should be no race now. It should be no contest
Harry Wright ,   UK   (11.02.12)
with Obama bowing out of the race in DISGRACE. Since the Benghazi attack, all he is saying is that the incident is under investigation. Well, it is being investigated and NOT by him and his administration. We are learning more about Benghazi from a TV station (Fox) than from the US president. No doubt, he is leading from behind again. Not only is he lying about Benghazi, he is lying to the American people through his teeth. And some Americans want a pathological liar of epic proportion as their president. Ugh!
17. The Electoral College system is completely senseless today.
Tahl   (11.02.12)
It is such a travesty to see these elections being decided by a few voters in two or three states. It is so unbelievably absurd that an electoral system developed over two centuries ago, premised on archaic considerations that have long since become irrelevant, is creating such a terrible skew in the world's most important elections today. According to this system, a candidate may become president even if he got fewer total votes than his opponent. Additionally, this system renders most of the votes as irrelevant, as most of the US states are "decided" (and thus all the minority votes in those states would be ignored, and all the majority votes would be somewhat redundant), while giving a handful of American voters in the "swinging states" much more power. Hard to believe that the democracy considered to be the greatest in the world, can be so anti-democratic, all in the name of some absurd conservatism. But I didn't tell you something you don't already know.
18. Candidates are tied with potential for a Romney landslide
Sue ,   Los Angeles   (11.02.12)
In an average of recent polls on RealClearPolitics.com, Obama & Romney are tied. However, it is the electoral map (from the 50 states) that determines the outcome. To win, a candidate needs 270 electoral votes. Currently, Obama has 201 and Romney has 191. 146 votes from 11 states are toss-ups. Of these states, Romney is leading in 3: Florida, Virginia and North Carolina, which gives him 248 votes. He is close to winning in the remaining 8 states. If he can add Ohio and Colorado, he will be over the needed 270.
19. 2 you need soup kitchen?
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20. Russian style misinformation by leftists
Tarbouche ,   Aswan   (11.02.12)
with a scary agenda that has no legs in the real world.and a pedigree of failure As with failed communism, Maoism ,& on leftist agenda wrecks of regressive desperate steps Romney will take the White house, as there are enough Americans with feet on the ground who want the American dream back, not Post America Muslim world
21. Obama is campaigning against himself
Devorah   (11.02.12)
He is campaigning against the way he trashed the U.S. in order to further trash the U.S. Obamalogic on steroids.
22. Obama looks cheap in that leather jacket
Bash ,   The Trash   (11.02.12)
23. I truly fear another 4 years of Obama.
givalt!   (11.02.12)
How can ANYONE vote for this man? He has been the worst president since Carter.
24. Most polls say Romney is ahead.
come on Rom!   (11.02.12)
But, some leftist news papers say Obama is when there is no evidence that he is. I would not put it past Obama to do something to win even though he has lost.
25. The grand illusion
Istvan ,   BUDAPEST HUNGARY   (11.02.12)
that Romney will win is baseless. Also a lot of peoples hoped in 1933 that AH will lose elections, but in vain. The majority of voters were germans then, and now non white US citizens are decisive forces. Maybe a tranquil co-existence will be possible for Israel with this cappuchino boy.
26. Romney goin' down with his ynet talkbacker lobby
eldar ,   Haifa   (11.02.12)
Luckily, most of the population is not represented by the anti-Obama Ynet talkback crowd. Obama is a solid president, respectful, pro-middle and lower class (and not particularly biased against the rich). Romney is a silver-spoon millionaire huckster who is trying to treat America like a business take-over. His job was to buy businesses, sell of their assets, fire their employees, reward their chairman, and tuck a fortune for himself in the Cayman Islands. Now he wants to do the same for a country. And the quaking American Israelis have to resort to racist insult to try and defame a good man. Only reflects badly on the Jewish community in Israel, says nothing about the candidate they slander. See ya' next week, when hopefully America will once again prove itself smarter than American ex-pats in Israel.
27. Stunning denial of reality
Philos ,   Herzeliya   (11.02.12)
The polls are wrong, the jobs report is a forgery and we're going to sit here with our hands over our years yelling, "la la la la la - Bengahzi - la la la la la!" That just about sums up the Talkbacks here. I'm looking forward to reading about crab people conspiracies of why Obama was reelected. Who knows? Maybe they'll blame the Jews..... In fact, I hope the Republican base (who are frothy mouthed Jew and all other "minority" haters) will blame the Jews. That'll allow the sane majority to rub it in the faces of all the Jews who voted for these moral miscreants. On a positive note, I hope the sane conservatives will eject all the crazies out of their movement and we can go back to normal politics in a democracy (i.e., compromise, compromise, some more compromise and a heap load of tolerance)
28. ha ha
Jimmy ,   world   (11.02.12)
10 thats rich coming from a country living on handouts!!
29. Virginia is a big military State and would turn against
Rivkah   (11.02.12)
BHO if the news media told Virginians what BHO has done to US Navy Admiral Charles M. Gaouette who was relieved from his command of CSG-3 and General Carter Ham who was relieved of command of AFRICOM because they objected to a stand down order from BHO not to help the US Ambassador in Benghazi who was under attack and murdered. The US military believes BHO is guilty of malfeasance of office in the Benghazi murders of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. BHO is fearful of a military coup and is removing flag officers from their commands in his paranoia. WHEN oh WHEN is BHO going to be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and malfeasance of office? Any Virginian who votes for BHO is a traitor to the US Constitution and the Republic in my opinion. Ditto any person in the USA who votes for BHO.
30. slanted polls
Jack ,   Jerusalem   (11.02.12)
Ynet has been publishing pro Obama polls for weeks predicting an Obama win. I hope this site is willing to issue an apology when Romney takes it.
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