Rasmussen
Poll: 12% made their presidential pick in the last week
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 70% made up their minds about how to vote more than a month ago, while another 18% decided within the last month.
But five percent (5%) decided within the last week and three percent (3%) within the last few days. Combined with the four percent (4%) who reached a final decision at the very last minute, this means 12% of voters decided whom to vote for in the last seven days of the race.
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*facepalm*
Dash on November 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM
Two comments:
“I’m so glad we had this storm last week”.
And, thank you so much Governor Christie.
OxyCon on November 8, 2012 at 12:37 PM
Yes, the nation contains 12% flaming idiots- and 51% run-of-the-mill idiots.
michaelo on November 8, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Yeah, thanks Gov. Krispy Kreme.
thirteen28 on November 8, 2012 at 12:38 PM
BS on the whole damn thing.
bgibbs1000 on November 8, 2012 at 12:39 PM
What, just in case one of the candidates jumped the gun and ripped off his face revealing a lizard alien before the election?
What’s to figure out?
Dongemaharu on November 8, 2012 at 12:40 PM
It’s funny, I live in greater Phila, so I saw Christie’s news conference when he (first) started slurping Obama during the hurricane.
My first thought was “wow, what a great governor.”
Then, after his second or third volunteering of how awesome Obama was, “wow, what an idiot.”
Don’t get too mad at Christie, though. The media was never going to give Obama the Katrina treatment, even if hundreds of New Yorkers died and thousands were still homeless and tens of thousands were still without power today.
Oh wait. That happened.
HitNRun on November 8, 2012 at 12:42 PM
More people had to die to get Obama elected. I’m talking about Sandy, Libya, F&F (if it worked), and Ft Hood.
How is this worse than watergate?
Oil Can on November 8, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Thanks, Christie! Wipe your chin…not sure if it’s Bruce or Obama’s…..
Verloc on November 8, 2012 at 12:43 PM
It’s a Rasmussen poll, and we know that they are always completely accurate!!!!
AngusMc on November 8, 2012 at 12:44 PM
You all notice how Obama and updates on the conditions were all but pushed to the back burner once the photo-op and praising was done? Yep, thanks big guy for help sway voters and give em that little nudge that might have gone our way instead.
watertown on November 8, 2012 at 12:45 PM
I do not think anyone is saying this is a 100% survey but you have to be a fool to think that it did not help sway some to vote for Bama. Heck, we got people that voted for Obama because they thought that Mittens was truly going to take away some women’s rights for petes sakes.
watertown on November 8, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Notice that Rasmussen does not say how those 12% voted? I wonder why.
AngusMc on November 8, 2012 at 12:49 PM
America is the land of the free stupid.
Schadenfreude on November 8, 2012 at 12:51 PM
i don’t like what christie did but i wouldn’t go as far as to say that it cost romney the election. i feel like people are using christie as a scapegoat.
Sachiko on November 8, 2012 at 12:51 PM
rogerb on November 8, 2012 at 12:52 PM
They were waiting until a celebrity told them what to think.
But seriously, never be surprised at the laziness or stupidity of the average person. A lot of people will work twice as hard as they need to in order to avoid thinking or doing the actual work.
If you’ve met some of those people, as I have been most unfortunate to have, none of this surprises you.
kim roy on November 8, 2012 at 12:56 PM
and Obama won this group, the decisions were being made at the same time he was getting a bump off Hurricane Sandy.
….Freaking…. bad… LUCK!!! Bah!
WolvenOne on November 8, 2012 at 1:09 PM
Thanks Christie!
astonerii on November 8, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Again, the ignorance and intellectual apathy of these people is mind boggling, maddening, and frightening.
MobileVideoEngineer on November 8, 2012 at 1:14 PM
I agree. That is a part of this. Billions in ads negated by the storm and Obama looking bipartisan with Crispy Creme.
Ted Torgerson on November 8, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Why are we even commenting on a Rasmussen poll? What do reputable polling agencies say?
RINOs are people too on November 8, 2012 at 1:16 PM
well, the PPP poll actually was the single most accurate individual pollster. now that hurts!
nathor on November 8, 2012 at 1:19 PM
even without sandy, romney would have lost but maybe virginia and florida would not have fallen to them.
you can now believe poll averages like the one of nate silver, and it shows a poll bump from sandy, but not that large. truth is, even after the 1 debate, romney was never in the lead, but he got closer then.
nathor on November 8, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Well according to exit polls, Sandy did factor into a lot of people’s choice and those folks went for Obama by a 2-1 ratio. If it even swung the electorate a couple percentage points, that’s your election right there. Now I’m not pinning that all on CRISTie, but he sure as hell didn’t help matters.
Doughboy on November 8, 2012 at 1:27 PM
This 12% shouldn’t be allowed to drive let alone vote. Both can be weapons of mass destruction if in the wrong hands.
JAM on November 8, 2012 at 1:29 PM
It’s easy enough to excoriate these folks. But it’s a valid point that the low-information voter wouldn’t necessarily see a big difference between Romney and Obama. This isn’t a knock on Romney so much as an acknowledgment that the low-information voter’s picture of Obama is created by peripheral impressions, which are largely controlled by the MSM. A GOP candidate has to present a real contrast to the Democrat, especially in terms of memorable policy statements. Romney didn’t.
Even the lowest-information voters could describe in 25 words or less what Reagan was for. Once he was associated with the War on Terror, the same could be said of Bush II. But it could not be said of Dole, McCain, or Romney.
J.E. Dyer on November 8, 2012 at 1:44 PM
I can’t remember where, but I saw an exit poll of how people voted who made their decision within the last week. The percentage was something like low 50s for Obama and mid 40s for Mitt. So basically the undecided broke towards Obama, but not heavily. 5% of the 2012 voters is about 5.5 million and if we speculate that without the hurricane 2/3 would have broken for Romney then he would have netted roughly 1.9 million votes from the undecided.
Wigglesworth on November 8, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Hardest hit Chris Christie…
How does he even pretend he didn’t give Obama a huge boost. I would not condemn him too much. I would prefer he spend the next 4 years trying to make up for it rather then him moving into the middle and giving MSNBC et al more fodder against conservatives.
Theworldisnotenough on November 8, 2012 at 1:59 PM
Maybe Rove should have spent his money on blimps for the last week
faraway on November 8, 2012 at 2:46 PM
He can’t make up for it. This is worse than Chuck Crist. Porkulus was a done deal whether or not Crist embraced Obama at that rally. But it’s at least possible that Obama doesn’t win reelection(or at least does so by a far narrower margin) if CRISTie doesn’t give him that tongue bath on national TV last week. I don’t see how he recovers from that.
Doughboy on November 8, 2012 at 2:50 PM
i seriously do not think christie’s obama praise had that much of an impact on the election at all. everyone’s blowing it out of proportion. again, everyone’s using him as a scapegoat. there are so many other factors that went into this election.
Sachiko on November 8, 2012 at 3:06 PM