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发帖数: 2980 | 1 Pennsylvania没有提前投票，对共和党比较有利。好戏连台！
President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney entered the final days of the
presidential race tied in a state that the campaigns only recently began
contesting, a Tribune-Review poll shows.
The poll showed the race for Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes locked up at
47 percent in its final week. Romney was scheduled to campaign in the
Philadelphia area on Sunday, and former President Bill Clinton planned to
stump for Obama on Monday. The campaigns have begun to saturate the airwaves
with millions of dollars in presidential advertising.
“They’re both in here because of exactly what you’re seeing” in this
poll, said Jim Lee, president of Susquehanna Polling & Research, which
surveyed 800 likely voters Oct. 29-31. Most of the interviews occurred after
Hurricane Sandy inundated Eastern and Central Pennsylvania. The poll’s
error margin is 3.46 percentage points.
Nearly 60 percent of people say the country is on the wrong track, and
economic concerns continue to dominate. Almost half of likely voters say
economic issues are the primary driver of their choice for president.
“I’m concerned about all the young people graduating from college, whether
they’re finding jobs,” said Pauline Hoxie, 84, a Republican from Jersey
Shore in Lycoming County. Her grandson graduated with a degree in graphic
design but works a manual labor job because he can’t find openings in his
field, she said.
Democrats shrugged off the Romney campaign’s late play for Pennsylvania,
sending emails to supporters and journalists showing past Republican
presidential candidates doing the same thing. Pennsylvania hasn’t given its
electoral votes to the Republican candidate since 1988.
The state’s urban, suburban and rural voters usually give winners narrower
victories than Obama’s 10-point win in 2008. John Kerry won by 2.5
percentage points in 2004; Al Gore won by 4.2 in 2000.
The state is a tempting target for candidates in close races. It has two
more electoral votes than the 18 up for grabs in Ohio, the focus of more
campaign activity in the past few weeks than any other state.
“Some people call it fool’s gold. Republicans come close but it just doesn
’t happen at the end of the day,” Lee said.
It could be different for the GOP this year, Lee said.
Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate surpassed the national average in
September after remaining below average throughout the recession. In Ohio,
where both campaigns have spent far more time and money, the unemployment
rate was 7 percent in September, more than a percentage point lower than
Pennsylvania’s 8.2 percent.
“There is no president who only deals with what happens during his four
years,” said Lorraine Gregor, 61, a Democrat from McKees Rocks. “I don’t
care who the president would’ve been when Barack Obama took office; we
would be talking about the same thing today.”
The national unemployment rate was 7.9 percent in October, when employers
added 171,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“I just don’t feel that President Obama is doing the job at all. What has
he accomplished?” said Roger Briggs, 67, of Monongahela. He questioned why
accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and Fort Hood gunman Nidal
Malik Hassan haven’t been tried. “They’re too lenient on these Muslims,
these radical Muslims. He’s bending over backwards.”
Obama enjoyed wide leads in state polling during most of the race. That
narrowed when Romney’s image improved as a result of the October
presidential debates. Susquehanna found 48 percent of voters view Romney
favorably, the first time he tied Obama on that measure. A Trib poll in
September found Obama with a 47 percent favorability rating, compared with
Romney’s 41 percent.
“We’ve continued to show the president failing to hit the 50-percent mark.
Pennsylvanians have pretty much split their perceptions of him. Those
perceptions are hardened; they don’t change,” Lee said.
What changed, he said, is Romney’s image among undecided voters: “Romney
has given undecided a reason to vote for him.”
Romney’s image suffered among some voters because of comments he made at a
fundraiser that 47 percent of people see themselves as victims entitled to
government handouts.
Romney has since called the remarks “completely wrong.”
“I don’t believe Romney is concerned with the working class. I just don’t
like how we’re looked at these days,” said Gregory Lutz, 64, a Democrat
from Mildred in Sullivan County. Attacks that highlighted Romney’s foreign
bank accounts sowed more doubt, he said.
Because he’s taken advantage of offshore tax benefits, “I don’t trust
what he says about keeping jobs in the U.S.”
Pennsylvania’s sudden emergence as a state up for grabs shouldn’t surprise
anyone, Lee said. Even when state polls showed a wide gap in Obama’s favor
, the president rarely registered more than 50 percent, he said.
“I think it’s always been here for the taking,” Lee said. The question,
he said, is whether Romney’s recent play for the state is “a day late and
a dollar short.”
Mike Wereschagin is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached
at 412-320-7900 or m**********[email protected].
Read more: http://triblive.com/politics/politicalheadlines/2878015-74/romney-percent-poll-state-obama-pennsylvania-president-lee-presidential-voters#ixzz2BFqIGpZO
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发帖数: 12623 | 2 that means RR team is winning PA | p****a
发帖数: 631 | 3 真是PA 变toss up了？
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【在 l**********1 的大作中提到】
: Pennsylvania没有提前投票，对共和党比较有利。好戏连台！
: President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney entered the final days of the
: presidential race tied in a state that the campaigns only recently began
: contesting, a Tribune-Review poll shows.
: The poll showed the race for Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes locked up at
: 47 percent in its final week. Romney was scheduled to campaign in the
: Philadelphia area on Sunday, and former President Bill Clinton planned to
: stump for Obama on Monday. The campaigns have begun to saturate the airwaves
: with millions of dollars in presidential advertising.
: “They’re both in here because of exactly what you’re seeing” in this
| n**********y
发帖数: 1446 | 4 恭喜罗姆尼，Go out white House, O8 | l**********1
发帖数: 2980 | | g********w
发帖数: 2539 | 6 toss up actually means red, lol
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【在 l**********1 的大作中提到】
: 好戏连连！
| m****n
发帖数: 2415 | 7 恭喜恭喜
罗姆尼要当总统了
以后四年要少交好多税了
（就只看FOX好了，保持好喜悦的心情，别转台） | l**********1
发帖数: 2980 | 8 虽然90%媒体都是左派。但不管左右电视台新闻，本人都不看，本人只看体育和娱乐。
你呢？
【在 m****n 的大作中提到】
: 恭喜恭喜
: 罗姆尼要当总统了
: 以后四年要少交好多税了
: （就只看FOX好了，保持好喜悦的心情，别转台）
| t*b
发帖数: 850 | 9 I said, predicted that Romney will win PA.
let's just wait and see on Tuesday night. | m****n
发帖数: 2415 | 10 啥台都不看，
因为
我家没电视！！！：）
我LG每天都看COMEDY CENTRAL的那两个SHOWS
我这两天看了一下CHRIS MATTHEW, RACHEL MADDOW，跟这里的氛围一样，自己的候选人
要赢了！！！
再转去看 BILL O的show，批判新出来的经济数据，批判利比亚事件
原来大家各自生活在各自的圈里啊。。。哈哈
【在 l**********1 的大作中提到】
: 虽然90%媒体都是左派。但不管左右电视台新闻，本人都不看，本人只看体育和娱乐。
: 你呢？
| h****g
发帖数: 2216 | 11 我现在敢很有把握的说周二晚上肯定没有结果。
【在 t*b 的大作中提到】
: I said, predicted that Romney will win PA.
: let's just wait and see on Tuesday night.
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