Gallup: More Obama Voters Switching to GOP

3:14 PM, Aug 6, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARREN

A new poll from Gallup http://www.gallup.com/poll/156446/2008-Obama-Voters-McCain-Voters-Switching-Sides.aspx?utm_source=email-a-friend&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sharing&utm_content=titlelink looks at how many 2008 voters say they will switch parties in the presidential race. According to the poll, more Americans who voted for Barack Obama will be voting for Mitt Romney than John McCain voters will switch to vote for Obama. Here are Gallup's results:



http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/gallup-more-obama-voters-switching-gop_649373.html

Four months out, it looks like it could be a close race.

I think the debates will be the deciding factor.

Obama will lose some voters, but will it be enough, and will they be in the battleground states?

Couple bright spots for Mitt? He received more donations than Obama last month, and all the Koch haters? 90% of the donations were $250 and under. Astroturf? I don't think so.

And Clint Eastword endorsed Romney.

Clinton will be next.

FredHayek wrote: Obama will lose some voters, but will it be enough, and will they be in the battleground states?

Couple bright spots for Mitt? He received more donations than Obama last month, and all the Koch haters? 90% of the donations were $250 and under. Astroturf? I don't think so.

And Clint Eastword endorsed Romney.

Obama will lose plenty of voters... not that they will vote for Romney, they just won't be as excited to vote as last time.

CritiKalBill wrote:

FredHayek wrote: Obama will lose some voters, but will it be enough, and will they be in the battleground states?

Couple bright spots for Mitt? He received more donations than Obama last month, and all the Koch haters? 90% of the donations were $250 and under. Astroturf? I don't think so.

And Clint Eastword endorsed Romney.

Obama will lose plenty of voters... not that they will vote for Romney, they just won't be as excited to vote as last time.

How excited do you think the Republicans are about voting for Romney?

archer wrote:

CritiKalBill wrote:

FredHayek wrote: Obama will lose some voters, but will it be enough, and will they be in the battleground states?

Couple bright spots for Mitt? He received more donations than Obama last month, and all the Koch haters? 90% of the donations were $250 and under. Astroturf? I don't think so.

And Clint Eastword endorsed Romney.

Obama will lose plenty of voters... not that they will vote for Romney, they just won't be as excited to vote as last time.

How excited do you think the Republicans are about voting for Romney?

Not too much. I expect the coattails of the tea party candidates will get him across the finish line.

Blazer Bob wrote: Not too much. I expect the coattails of the tea party candidates will get him across the finish line.

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I don't pay much attention to polls, but I have noticed that most of the folks that I know who voted for Obama last time around are not going to be voting for him this time around. My take of the last election was that there was so much hatred for W and so much apathy/dislike toward McCain that Obama gained a lot of votes that he would not have ordinarily gotten.

I'm frankly surprised that this cycle seems to be a race at all because I think Romney is an ill-suited and weak candidate, although the rest of the GOP field was a joke with the possible exception of Ron Paul who is perpetually effectively pilloried by the media and the big money.

I see these all-or-nothing swings from democrat to republican and back again as indicators that a) the two-party system is no longer viable and b) the electorate either doesn't know what to do about it or is so disgusted that they don't really care - a dangerous and sad thing if it's true.

I heard a commentator on a radio show over the weekend state that he believed this country was in a cold-war - rural vs. urban, where rural folks tend to be more self-sufficient and want less government intervention and urbans tend to be more dependent upon infrastructor and want more government support, and that neither side is willing to compromise. I think to a degree he's correct. If he is correct, given the influx of population to urban centers, I'm pessimistic about the future direction of the country.

Urban versus Rural? There has always been this battle in our nation. Part of the reason for the civil war. But increasing urbanization seems to say the Dems are more likely to win.

The suburbs are still a toss up. If Joe Coors manages to term limit Perlmutter, I think Romney will win Colorado.