ABC News daily tracking poll – Oct. 25 – Voters trust Romney on economy

President Barack Obama and his rival Republican Mitt Romney are in an essential tie among likely voters, according to ABC News/Washington Post's daily tracking poll for Thursday Oct. 25.
But Romney did reach 50 percent support among those surveyed for the first time in an ABC/Post poll. Obama received 47 percent support. The numbers are within the poll's margin of error; thus, the race is considered tied. The poll found voters trust Romney more than Obama when it comes to handling the economy – 52 percent to 43 percent.
Romney's support among independents was also significant. He had 57 percent support in that group. According to the pollster's analysis, the debates drove support up for Romney within that group.
The gender gap is still apparent. Obama did well among women – 54 percent to 43 percent. Romney did well with men – 57 percent to 40 percent.
Read ABC’s analysis and poll results (pdf)
Well, I trust romney will crash the economy if he gets in ! This is what his company is and has been doing for years !
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Not only will he crash the economy by shipping jobs overseas, he'll have anyone arrested that stands up against his corporate robbing ideals !
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"Police have arrested three people for blocking the removal of equipment from the Sensata Technologies plant in Freeport, Illinois"
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I voted for Romney already but, we will soon see just how dumb or smart the "Yankee" really is.
Anyone with half a brain or who isn't on some form of taxpayer handout will vote for Romney. He is a businessman, with a proven track record which is what we need to get us out of this depression. obama is nothing more than a snake oil salesman who has no idea in how to run anything financial.  Unfortunately, the deadbeats and the union puppets are probably going to outnumber the rest of us, so we will be stuck in reverse for another four years while this worthless excuse for a leader blunders along with his promises and lies and sinks the country further into the toilet.
I trust Romney....its going to tank the economy even further by tax breaks and increased military spending. He says he can balance the budget in 8 years but his model uses double what the experts say the GDP will be in the next few years. Fuzzy math won't help my calf...
It would be a different story if  ABC  would bother to carry the latest news. For example the latest facts concerning the four dead Americans, two of which were Seals that were killed trying to save others, even though they [the Seals] were told by government officials to STAND DOWN. In other words, DO NOT RENDER AID. It's time for Obama, Mrs. Clinton and the rest of the Obama regime to tell the truth to the public. Who could vote for these liars.
"latest facts"...Ya, facts...fauxe fax..."fauxe news has learned", "faux nooze sources on the ground"..."Fauxe Nooze has also learned"
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news flash...because fauxe nooze reports it doesn't mean "fact" ! And with vague reference to "sources", which is typical of this progaganda machine, makes it all the more unreliable !
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A short definition, since you seem to be lacking the understanding of the word....oh ....knida funny that websters #4 definition matches with fause nooze so well !
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factâ â/fækt/ Show Spelled[fakt] Show IPA noun
1. something that actually exists; reality; truth: Your fears have no basis in fact.
2. something known to exist or to have happened: Space travel is now a fact.
3. a truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true: Scientists gather facts about plant growth.
4. something said to be true or supposed to have happened: The facts given by the witness are highly questionable.
 @last boyscout You think that is bad MSNBC is fully Democratic and kept saying that Romney kept putting them off..
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 @wahoo Well Obama and his cronies are going to outsource to Mexico. What's the difference?
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Why is this not being report on all news stations KATU...CIA operatives twice asked for permission to help Ambassador Chris Stevens and his staff, and twice were told to 'stand down' â while a later request for military backup was denied. ..just when you think Obama policies can't get any worse then another tidbit comes outâ¦......âFormer Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When he and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to "stand down," according to sources familiar with the exchange. Soon after, they were again told to "stand down." ..How could our government do this?  They were in contact, watching it live and still the 4 Americans were denied help...NO EXCUSE FOR THISâ¦.It sure speaks to the character and priorities of Obama. Amazing he thought he would get away with this
Flagrantly egregious and reprehensible lies by this prez ⦠rank treacheryâ¦.
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Like your claims of sodomy on the ambassador ? Keep grabing at those straws!
 @sargerator ...how's that dream world of yours working out?.....
 @KHEB Eh can't a pres get shot for treason?
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 @wahoo Seriously? Take off the blinders! By the way, you misspelled your name. There's no "h" and only one "o" in wacko.
 @scoreboard  @wahoo .. you have my pity.  It must be hard to wake up each day and have to face yourself....
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None of the reasons why I am voting for Romney were ever discussed in the debates...
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Here is why I am going to vote for Mr. Romney...
1) He has no old friends from the 60's that were terrorist that blew up Government buildings.
2) He has no friends, family, employees or preachers in his life that are sworn Communist.
3) He has never hung a bulb on a Christmas tree that had Mao's likeness on it.
4) He has no friends, family or former acquaintances that were or are members of La Raza.
5) He has no friends, family or church affiliation that believes Social Justice is superior to individual responsibility.
6) He actually goes to church... Ever seen Obama take his wife and kids to a real church?
7) He will never bow down to a foreigner from another land.
8) He will not appoint someone like Eric Holder as Attorney General. His attorney general will actually prosecute whites and blacks fairly.
9) He understands how to do due diligence before investing in a company that is already bankrupt.
10) He knows that Big Government IS the problem, NOT the answer to our problems.
Seems pretty cut and dry to me...
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 @Milton Cross You could have shortened the list substantially with a simple "He has no friends" statement.Â
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You do know government grew considerably under you poster boy Reagan right? And taxes went up a lot as well.
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The rest of your points are tripe.
The nationâs problems will be solved when Barack Obama and his staff, his cabinet and his czars, his undersecretaries and âspecial assistants,â are finally evicted from their tyrannical and destructive positions of power. The ticket to ending joblessness is replacing the job destroyer with the job creator. That single act â the replacement of Barack Obama with Mitt Romney â may not do everything we need, but it will do more good with one single flick of a switch than any other action ever could.
 @Milton Cross I'm sorry you think that way.  Not because of any great love I have for Obama, but because of the horribly myopic vision this represents of the issues facing our country today. Â
More political propoganda in favor of the two headed snake by the bought and paid for media. You know katu (biased as he11) there are 4 other candidates on the ballot... you know that right?
Who's Obama? He's the one who told us that 'we couldn't keep driving our SUV's and that we could no longer keep our homes at 72 degrees and expect other countries to just say "ok". I can't speak for you, but I'm not about to be told by another country what I can drive, or how warm my home can be this winter.
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Obama also stated  âUnder my cap and trade plan, electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket.â  Again, speaking for my family, I can't afford my electric bill to 'skyrocket', but maybe you can.
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Obama doesn't care if gas prices are $4.00 or higher, that's your problem, Obama doesn't care if General Motors will never pay us back the 50 (Billion) dollars that they still owe the taxpayers, that's your problem. Obama doesn't care that yet another taxpayer funded Solar company [that he sponsored] has gone bankrupt today, that's your problem. You can still vote for Obama, it's your choice, but I can't afford four more years of Obama's policies.
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 @wahoo  @last When are you going to grow up and stop with the name calling? Are you and sargerator related? Brothers perhaps?
 @last boyscout Ok, I have a huge problem with this attitude, I really do.
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5% of the world's population using 25% of its energy means something is out of balance. Â Couple that with a "screw you, I'll drive whatever I want, heat my home as much as I want, and otherwise waste as much energy as I want" mentality seems to me selfish in the extreme, and completely inexcusable and unjustifiable.
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So you don't want the government telling you what to do, fine.  How about just doing because you're  a decent stand-up human being who understands that excessive energy consumption has a huge downside for everyone?
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@Festivus @last boyscout Nice socialist attitude there bucko.
 @Festivus  @gjUhnhwwMspREt Give them time....4 more years of Obama and I bet he'd try to do it.
 @gjUhnhwwMspREt  @Festivus  @last Really?  I don't see a call to nationalize private industry.  Did I miss it?  Or maybe you're just one of the countless masses who doesn't actually understand what the word means but uses it anyway?
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When did deciding not to flip the rest of the humans on the planet the bird instead of deciding "Screw you, I'll just do WTF I want" become a bad thing? Â
If you girls want to be told what to do with your body, vote for Mr. Romney. Men, if you want to be told that your wife who got raped has to keep the baby, vote for Mr. Romney. If you want to be told that it was God's will to be raped and inpregnated, vote for Mr. Romney. If you want to told that a rape is not a legitimate rape because the rapist didn't beat you half to death, vote or Mr. Romney. I you are a liberated women who stands with other women in this fight for equality in very aspect of your life, Vote for Mr. Obama. Simple reallyÂ
 @pattypepper ... hey, remember "swimmer"?  if you haven't noticed swimmer changed his/her name to "pattypepper"...since he/she offers up the same drivel I wonder why the change?????
 @pattypepper You go girl !!!!
1st sentence "FEAR MONGERING"
2nd sentence "FEAR MONGERING"
3rd sentence "FEAR MONGERING"
4th sentence "FEAR MONGERING"
5th sentence...makes you sound unintelligent.... Equality? Why do the women in Obama's administration make less than the men?Â
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Well folks here is my final take and I will try to be as understanding as possible...when Obama took office 4 years ago, the economy was tanking hard. The president should have, addressed the economic issue, by culling back spending drastically and looking at ways to stop the migration of business to elsewhere in the world. When your revenues are down you donât look at ways to increase expenditures. Jumping into healthcare reform didnât address the overspending of our government.
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Bailing out the auto industry at the expense of the tax payers didnât reduce the spending of the government. Subsidizing oil drilling to the Brazilians and the Colombians with borrowed money doesnât address the spending of the government. The private sector FUNDS the public sector, if the private sector is devastated the public sector MUST reduce itâs footprint until the private sector can sustain it again. This president, who I had such hopes and aspirations for, has worked on the wrong problems facing this country. Now at the end of his term, he seeks re election after displaying such outright fiscal irresponsibility. And now this Administration wants to give the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt over 1 billion dollars so they can buy heavy arms and hit us somewhere in the world big time... I am sorry Obama and Biden. Pack it up, Romney and Ryan have earned a chance to do what you didnât deem important enough.
 @shadowwalker " The private sector FUNDS the public sector, if the private sector is devastated the public sector MUST reduce itâs footprint until the private sector can sustain it again."
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Hmmm. Â That's 180 degrees wrong. Â The public sector has to step in and cushion the fall of the private sector, then get out of the way and repair its balance sheet during a boom. Â When the economy is contracting is precisely when the need for unemployment, food stamps, tax relief, and every other form of government assistance is greatest.
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The problem isn't deficit spending during a recession. Â It's deficit spending in both good times and bad.
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 @Festivus ... WOW...wonders never cease...I agree with you...WOW!Â
 @shadowwalker Excellent post! And you are absolutely correct in your statement.
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 @Chris Nicholls  @shadowwalker Got anything to prove what he is say is BS? Yea I didn't think so.
@Chris Nicholls ...oh nice! So much for civil discourse and well thought out views.
@shadowwalker ......well thought out post, shadow. I think a lot of people feel as you do. I voted for him with hopes and he couldn't deliver.
Why wouldn't someone trust a community organizer and a two year Senator to be a great business person? Sarc.
@Rob C 503 Why didn't the community organizer aspect bother you the first time you supposedly voted for him?
@Rob C 503 why would anyone trust someone who made the vast majority of his $250,000,000 fortune outsourcing American jobs to China? I'll take the community organizer and senator that actually lived the American dream over the guy who was born into wealth and had everything handed to him his whole life.
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Yeah he was born to more wealth than most American's. Much of Willard's money came from George (his father). He earned much of that being a politician.
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 @Ramsesthegreat  @Rob Almost all of Obama's retirement is invested in China, Look it up.
@Ramsesthegreat .......I could be wrong but I don't believe he was "born into wealth". And can you cite the source that verifies $250 million came from that practice?
This is the blog I like to watch. Â At least they try to do some sophisticated analysis on all of the available polling data.
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I'm not going to worry too much about Romney winning. Vegas is predicting otherwise. Interesting article here, for those who like to prognosticate:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/how-gamblers--historys-mo_b_2011534.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
 @badcat I wouldn't bet on the Vegas prediction. Most people lose that way.