Tight Races in AL and MS, Romney Leads Obama Nationally
I must say it was nice being able to have the windows open in the house all day long yesterday. Late last night, Public Policy Polling gave us their final look at the races in Mississippi and Alabama.
PRESIDENT – ALABAMA – GOP PRIMARY (PPP)
Mitt Romney 31%
Newt Gingrich 30%
Rick Santorum 29%
Ron Paul 8%PRESIDENT – MISSISSIPPI – GOP PRIMARY (PPP)
Newt Gingrich 33%
Mitt Romney 31%
Rick Santorum 27%
Ron Paul 7%
Both polls were done March 10-11 among 600 likely voters in AL and 656 likely voters in MS. Meanwhile, ABC News and The Washington Post are showing a massive surge towards both Romney and Santorum in their match ups against Barack Obama and in fact, Romney now leads Obama in a head-to-head match up.
PRESIDENT – NATIONAL (ABC/WaPo)
Barack Obama (D-inc) 49%
Rick Santorum (R) 46%
This poll was done March 7-10 among 1003 adults, although the numbers above were done among registered voters.
Good Monday Morning!
Catch thr Mittmentum
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That was a terrible poll for Obama. Just wait till $5 gas prices come this summer.
Good morning friends, fun-lovers & truth seekers!
Gov. Romney looking good to go 2 for 2 tomorrow – thereby removing the hairshirt that good Southern folk won’t support a Mormon.
Aside from segregation-now, segregation-forever Geo Wallace and felon-pardonin’ Haley Barbour, AL and MS are some of our better states in our union.
Prepare the funeral dirges for Eye of Newt & Little Ricky!
I think the “I don’t want me no Mormon” effect will put Gingrich over the top in both states.
Rockefeller country, huh, Jay?
You & your smiley faces fool NOBODY, troll-boy.
Exactly, Bayer. We got a new lifeline with the gasoline prices, which are not coming down untl September or October. They will be going even higher in the month ahead. Too little too late.
Also, it will slow the weak recovery further.
“Rockefeller Republican,” my adz. Name some liberal Republicans? Extinct as the Dodo & the Passenger Pigeon.
To the extent that real Republicans even know who Nelson R was (& few do), they spit on the ground. An absolute 100% liberal DEM with an expedient “R” after his name… just like our HHR troll-boy Jay.
Piglosi and the Drats – 2001.
Gasoline – $1.71 a gallon
Bush’s fault!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pigloi and the Drats – 2006
Gasoline – $2.80 a gallon
Bush’s fault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Piglosi and the Drats – 2012
$3.90 a gallon
***The President is not responsible for the price of gasoline.
#4:
You just have to be joking me. Those two states are sewers. Especially, Mississippi. It has nothing going for it. It is the poorest state in the Country.
Tina
The best investors in the WORLD have NO IDEA what oil (& gas) prices are going to do.
What on earth makes you feel confident about where oil prices will be next fall? Kinda depends on Iran & Israel, don’t it?
Maine is decidedly poorer than Mississippi, if you include the cost of living, & not just income alone.
This fall or the one in 2013?
I do not know, but the fact is, if we are talking about $5 to $6 in summer (through Labor Day or through Septembe, doubtful that prices could drop that significantly to go below $3. This assumes that the projections from the experts are correct.
#8: Blah, blah, blah… A troll is some who obsesses on the same old song… someone like you. I have illuminated your ignorance on repeated occasions. As your vitriol shows, you are incapable of critical thought.
It’s just a screenname dude – chill!
BTW, my #9 is based on the median prices- and the statements from Madame Lift can be googled.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/03/12/washpost-buries-most-numbers-page-one-bad-obama-poll
WP in full Obama protection mode on the poll cited in this thread.
Also, Obumbler weak on foreign policy issues as Afghanistan continues to worsen. BTW, we should have gotten the hell out of that cess pool a long time ago.
A WashCompost and ABCrap poll has Obumbler under 50% and Sanotorum at 46%? The real numbers must be flipped at least once Dem crosstabs are adjusted to realistic expectations.
Romney up in same poll 49-47 among RV; make it 53-47 among LV in my opinion.
Romney surge in RAS is for reasl; energy policy or lack thereof, will take down Obama if the economy doesn’t.
No, I am not confident of wins for Romney in these states. But second place is very likely and with it more delegates once again.
The ABC /Washington Post Poll is a Dem +4 poll.It shows Obama’s approval/disapproval at 46%/ 50%,respectively.Last month the same polling combine showed the approval/ disapproval rating at the exact opposite in a D+11 poll.
I don’t really care how the south votes. They are irrelevant in my life. All those southerners say they stand for social justice, and then a retard governor pardons a bunch of hardened criminals.
But yeah, lets play some country music about love and jesus
#12:
The census Bereau compiles these figures. Their data includes poverty rate, (Ms. has the highest, at 21%) median income, (they have the lowest), education system, (theirs’ is among the worst) unemployment rates (typically among the highest), and health insurance coverage. (also among the lowest rates).
I have seen the list of these states, when adjusted for cost of living. Maine’s is about $1,000 per year lower. That is not much. And, when all other factors are considered, there is just no comparison, in the two states.
Tim – You forgot to mention Obesity rates. Regionally, I believe the south is one of the worst
today ras has Romney up 3 over Obama, Paul up 1, Santo down three and Gingrich down 6.
Yet they just won’t give the nomination to Romney!! I despair. Stupid party. Go Mitt!! And happy 65th birthday today Mitt.
Yes,as is typical of Ras’ volatility,he has Obama’s approval spiking up today from 44% to 47%.
I don’t believe these PPP numbers out of Mississippi/Alabama.
#25 I didn’t realize Mitt was 65. I thought he was 58 or 59…yikes
27 – How so jan? I think they overstate Mitt’s numbers. The demographics of these states just dont fit well for him. TN at least had Memphis and Nashville, where he shouldve done well with suburbanites. MS doesnt really have the affluent suburban white voters that put him over the top in other states. Hard for me to see Mitt getting over the 28% he got in TN. I see this setting up the headline for Wednesday: “Despite polls showing Romney ahead, he blows an opporunity to put the other candidates away for good as Gingrich wins AL, MS”.
Looks about the same age has Obama Barret but is much older.
That’s is what PPP is aiming for EML.
Yeah, Obama is too busy stressing over everything he’s done wrong. He’s going completely gray
Mississippi is actually a beautiful state.
We’re at the point where conservative voters can see the writing on the wall. Many are voting for Mitt because he is conservative enough for them and they want the process over with so we can start beating on Obama.
OBAMA IMPEACHMENT BILL NOW IN CONGRESS
Declares president’s use of military without approval ‘high crime, misdemeanor’
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/obama-impeachment-bill-now-in-congress/?cat_orig=us
Too good to be true?
Crazy Walter Jones introducing that.
Report: Gingrich reaching out to Perry to form a ticket? (Desperation?)
Gingrich insiders hope forming a predetermined ticket with Perry will unite the evangelical, Tea Party and very conservative voters that make up the core of the GOP.
As discussions got underway, a spokesman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry released a statement saying, “Gov. Perry thinks Newt Gingrich is the strongest conservative to debate and defeat President Obama and truly overhaul Washington. The speculation is humbling but premature.”
Floating Perry as a runningmate two days before Alabama and Mississippi could energize conservatives or turn them off.
http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/03/12/report-gingrich-reaching-out-to-perry-to-form-a-ticket/
The Republicans can ruin a good thing by talking impeachment.
#9 Amazing comparisons of gasoline prices in the 21st century, Tina, and how they are processed by the dems and MSM.
While ‘impeachment’ may be music to some people’s ears, it is really a distraction at this point, similar to the birther’s pursuit of their issue.
No one is talking impeachment but crazy Walter Jones.
We can impeach Obama ourselves in just 8 months…a shorter time than what impeachment proceedings would take.
#35 – Impeachment doesn’t work for illegally taking military action. It only works when you get oral from an intern
ARG
MS
Gingrich 32%
Paul 8%
Romney 34%
Santorum 22%
AL
Gingrich 34%
Paul 6%
Romney 31%
Santorum 24%
Good numbers I suppose
So that makes two different polls showing Mitt doing quite well in these Southern states. Although they have the top line results opposite. ppp, Mitt leading in ALA but second in MS versus Mitt second in ALA but winning in MS. Of course ARG has not been very accurate in its primary polling.
We can impeach Obama ourselves in just 8 months… —> Good one, DW!
Strategically, it might be better if Romney came in 2nd in AL and MS, with Newt taking the top spot. This would definitely keep him in the race, continuing to split the vote between him and Santorum. Plus, it would probably turn the heat more on their battle between each other, leaving Romney more room to ease through the primary process more unscathed.
I see good poll results for Romney keeps the trolls away.
Tim fuqq you
Yes MS is poor but it is not a sewer
There are many decent kind warm folks there
Fuqq you
We need to put that impeachment talk to rest.
Wapoo/ABC poll is that one poll that finally brings Obama’s approval back to the negative territory according to RCP. Finally pushes down that absurd +10 from GWU/Battleground taken a month ago.
I know a lot of good folks who have moved to Mississippi for retirement.
Brandon #5
It’ll be interesting to see if the IDWMNM Effect keeps Mitt from victory tomorrow
Dave – can youplease add “impeachment” to the filter? It is absurb and will do nothing except make the GOP look worse and Obama look better.
I lost my home to Katrina had to move to MS for six month
Talk about being welcomed with open arms I’ll never forget it nor the MS people
Yes MS is poor but it is not a sewer
There are many decent kind warm folks there – MFG
I’m sure that is true. However, whenever I point out that there are good people trapped in poor neighborhoods in Philadelphia, that doesn’t seem to resonate.
Tim V
Measurements such as “education system” & “health insurance” MAY arguably go to “quality of life,” but they do NOT go to “poorest state”!
“Poorest state” is the state with the worst combination of low income + high cost of living: by those measurements, ME is clearly poorer than MS.
Where you’d prefer to live is a different topic.
There’s a lot to be said for not having to spend a disproportionate percentage of your disposable income on home HEATING OIL, though, in my view.
MS has some beautiful areas. Their ecomonic woes are explained largly by their agragarian society, strinking population, education woes, and highest percentage single parent homes – 46% total & 79% AA community.
Any poll where sampling is truly representative; i.e. D and R even or D no more than +2 will show Obama losing handily.The simple reason is that the republican voters are consolidating behind whoever their pick is and Romney will get 90% of their vote. And the simple fact is Obama has lost the indies and will not get them back in enough numbers to beat Romney.However, to keep democratic morale up and our morale down, the MSM will conduct polls grossly oversampling dems until October, when they will all get truthful to guard their reputation.
Andrew Klavan: The Zombie dilemma — should we unit?
mnw – what you save on heating oil you spend on air conditioning (if that is necessary to your happiness).
#59–
Not me! I am a proud Santorum voter, and if he is not the nominee, I will vote for Barack Obama in the fall, just as every pundit in the MSM has claimed I will!
Note to SSQ:
Yolanda is being sarcastic in #62
I dunno
I’d take MS over ME any day cost of living is low taxes relatively low many truly beautiful areas too rural for me but that would be a positive for a lot of other people
Plus not having snow up to your azz four months out of the year…
It is wonderfully amusing to me to see that the worst president in our history could be defeated… because of a prosaic issue such as high gas prices!
Not because zero’s leading us to “Greece status” & national bankruptcy… not because of Obamacare & the road to socialism.
No. Only because the sheeple feel pump pain.
Sort of like War of the Worlds, where microbes do what the military can’t.
People are morons mnw
I’ll take it, though.
Kamikaze Kid bloviating again:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hNwY_-gtOt35m5xWdjp1fkmxTK6A
A win be a win
I really genuinely think Santorum is a psychopath I think he lost it a long time ago and is displaying it now more every day…
zero’s rhetoric concerning “Republican bumperstrip slogans about gas prices,” & his sneering “we can’t drill our way out”…
people DON’T LIKE THAT, outside the beltway.
I wish that Mr. Roboto (Romney) would lead off every speech with the Keystone pipeline.
Obama may just go over the cliff with this, being such a far left ideologue
I wish prices had spiked like this in September or October though…
“spiked in Sept or Oct”
Well… I listened to the news today, & if the situation between Israel & Iran is improving, or the Mideast generally, I sure as hell couldn’t detect it.
Israel & Hamas seem to be talking with each other throgh the medium of missile strikes & assassinations.
It’s the perception of political risk that’s driving high oil prices, not the scarcity of oil
Ther is no scarcity of oil. Middle East uncertainty and cheap dollar is driving up the cost.
Remember when dems blocked drilling in ANWAR in 2005 and said that it wouldn’t affect gas prices for 7 years…guess how long it’s been?
Lets hope Mitt can win in AL and MISS and wrap this up by the other two quitting. Mitt can then start hammering on the administration.
Romney looks to upset rivals in AL and MS primaries.
Romney continues to pull out the stops in Alabama. Last Friday Randy Owens, of Alabama Band fame, appeared with him in Tarrant, AL. Today he will be with Jeff Foxworthy. In the meantime, Ann Romney has been sent out to three AL events today in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Huntsville. Romney seems to be focusing more on AL than MS, as it has a bigger population, 4.8 million to MS’s of 3 million, rendering it with a larger cache of delegates — 50 vs 40.
With all of Romney’s efforts, though, Santorum is said to be working these southern states the hardest, spending lots more time in MS, while his wife, Karen works AL. Today Santorum will end up in AL.
What a dash for delegates!
Hello,
Isn’t tomorrow also Hawai’i (and American Samoa?)
Romney won the U.S. Virgin Islands yesterday apparently.
#76, Exactly….they always say, that would take 5 – 10 years to get oil…we need it now…
Reminds me of a liberal college town in Virginia. Back in 2002 they almost ran of water and didn’t know how they were going to handle the return of students. They didn’t want to drill any wells at the time…because that would take weeks for them to come online. Luckily, they got an unusual rainfall in October. Guess, they probably still don’t have the wells 10 years later.
#68 MFG
It appears that what Santorum doesn’t have in delegates, he has to make up for in excessive words and exaggerated predictions!
Santorum is just a deluded politician. I can tell that he doesn’t really believe much of what he is saying in regards to the political aspect of the race. Newt is the one who needs pyschiastric treatement.
#79 Corey
Yes, tomorrow HI and Samoa come up to bat along with AL and MS. Romney should do well in the two former, IMO.
Let’s make a case against primary school education.
K-5 education takes 7-13 years to result in a high school diploma…so let’s not open any more elementary schools…just high schools.
#3, Yes, the polls is WAPO is a bad poll for Obama. The only good number for him was the fact that the majority thinks he will get re-elected. That will change once his approval starts dropping again
#82 Santorum and Gingrich could both use some counseling assistance in order to re-balance their temperaments.
nt
http://news.yahoo.com/justice-dept-opposes-texas-voter-id-law-144238429.html