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CNN Poll of Swing States: Romney 51, Obama 43

jim39 Wrote: Aug 18, 2012 8:10 PM

Chik-Fil-A was the election. How motivated are we to remove this monster from Washington? Still Standing His Ground is right. Go to cities where Chik-Fil-A is told that they will be discriminated against - for thought-crimes! Go to Fauquier Co, where a Zoning Administrator bans childrens parties at local farms, demanding that the owners get permits! Go to New Mexico where a couple is persecuted because they chose not to photograph a homosexual couple's wedding! The oppression is growing, and the resistance to tyranny is swelling. Comrade Odumbo is going to lose - 70-30. And I will personally spit on him as he leaves, given the opportunity.

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CNN Poll of Swing States: Romney 51, Obama 43

There's lots of contradictory polling floating around today, so let's try to unpack some of it. We'll begin with the 'battleground' numbers teased in the headline:

President Obama remains marginally ahead of Mitt Romney in a new national CNN/ORC International poll released on Monday, although Romney leads Obama in the 15 states identified by the network as battleground states. Obama leads Romney nationally, 49 percent to 46 percent, with 4 percent of those surveyed saying they would vote for another candidate or neither candidate. That is inside the poll's margin of error, and it is...

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