Poll Position: Who will win the presidency?
The day is almost upon us. It’s time to declare.
After a very long election season, we’re a few days away from learning whether Barack Obama will be re-elected or if Mitt Romney will replace him. Which way will it go?
Who will win the presidency?
- Obama with a couple of states to spare (458 Votes)
- Romney by just a few electoral votes (367 Votes)
- Romney with a couple of states to spare (295 Votes)
- Obama by just a few electoral votes (270 Votes)
- Obama with 325+ electoral votes (185 Votes)
- Romney with 325+ electoral votes (184 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,759
Loading ...Now, you can find any number of data points to support your desired or predicted outcome. National polls, state polls, battleground polls, early voting totals, absentee ballot requests, TV ad spending, campaign stops by the candidates and their surrogates — all point to a tight race, and any can be used to explain why Obama will win or Romney will be victorious. In such a close race, with hardly anyone still undecided and likely to vote, it’ll probably come down to which side’s base is more enthusiastic, and which side’s get-out-the-vote efforts or “ground game” is more effective.
I’m not asking you to make a case for your preferred candidate, just to tell us what you think is going to happen. The nearby poll for this week’s Poll Position offers a range of possibilities for you to register a strong to moderate to narrow win for either candidate. Feel free to be more specific in the comments as to which swing state will go to each candidate.
As for me …
I’ll make my prediction next week!
– By Kyle Wingfield
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273 comments Add your comment
Tom(Independent Viet Vet-USAF)
November 2nd, 2012
2:32 pm
To the real Aquagirl: – Name-jacker off board to Cuba, good riddance!
Dennis
November 2nd, 2012
2:44 pm
Obama or Romney will win big and all Voters will lose big because Romney and Obama are different sides of the same coin!!! ha ha………
Joe MO
November 2nd, 2012
2:59 pm
Uh gawd I just realized that I was reading Klan State Newspaper.
Dean
November 2nd, 2012
3:25 pm
Can’t wait to see this arrogant incompetent president kicked out of office. Who on earth wants to remain unemployed for four more years while Obama polishes his helicopter and takes lavish vacations? You know who’s not going to be taking a vaction, lavish or not? Chris Stevens and three other Americans that are dead because Obama did nothing to help them, as we now know. Frankly, Obama should be impeached and put on trial for treason.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 2nd, 2012
3:29 pm
We can survive four more years of Obozo, if that’s how it goes. How long can we survive the moocher class being in the majority, though?
RSH101
November 2nd, 2012
3:37 pm
WE IN THE SOUTH DEEP SOUTH HAVE BEEN LIVING HURRICANS FOR YEARS. NOW ITS YOUR TURN TO PUT THE BLAM WERE IT SHOULD BE… I REMEMBER OBAMA SAYING HE WOULD BEEF UP FEMA AND TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING. GUESS WHAT YOU ALL ARE STILL WITH OUT FOOD WATER GAS ELECTRICITY.. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED MR PRESIDENT….. OH I FORGOT THIS IS A GUY WHO LET 4 AMERICANS DIE IN BENGHAZI……..WHAT ABOUT YOU ALL, THINK HE CARES. ALL HE CARES ABOUT IS HIS REELECTION……………………
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 2nd, 2012
3:38 pm
Obozo entrusted the security of Americans working in Benghazi to Libyan rent-a-cops.
Pure genius.
RSH101
November 2nd, 2012
3:48 pm
ALL YOU FOREIGNERS HAVE NO SAY SO ABOUT ANYTHING….. ITS NOT ABOUT RACE ANYMORE ITS ABOUT TRUTH JUSTICE AND HONESTY. A LIAR HAS TO TELL MORE LIES TO COVER UP THE FIRST AND THEN THE SECOND AND THEN THE THIRD. LOOK AT ALL THE COVER UP OBAMA HASDONE TO SEAL HIS RECORDS. SPENT MILLIONS TO COVER THEM UP. NOBODY REALLY KNOWS THIS GUY……………………… BUT YOU WOULD VOTE FOR HIM….. THE LARGEST NUMBER OF BLACK AMERICANS OUT OF WORK IN US HISTORY AND ITS MAINLY DUE TO OBAMA…. WAKE UP PEOPLE.
RSH101
November 2nd, 2012
3:57 pm
TOO MANY PEOPLE SITTING BACK THINKING YEA HE IS GONNA TAKE CARE OF ME. I GOTTA PUT HIM BACK IN OFFICE. BUT IN REALITY HE HAS DONE NOTHING FOR YOU. NOTHING..HE HAS DONE NOTHING TO HELP YOU LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM HAS HE. YOU STILL LIVING IN GOVERNMENT HOUSING, ON GOVERNMENT LAND AND GETTING WELFARE..YOU DO NOT EVEN REALIZE THAT BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT YOU DON’T EVEN GET QUALITY HEALTH CARE… YOU GET WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SAYS YOU CAN HAVE.. PEOPLE WITH INSURENCE THAT BUY THEIR OWN INSURENCE GET ALOT BETTER HEALTH CARE… SO WHY DON’Y YOU GO GET A JOB AND BUY YOUR OWN HOUSE, LAND AND GOOD HEALTH CARE… OH I FORGOT THERE AINT NO JOBS HA HA HA HA HA HA .. OBAMA DID THAT…………….
Lori
November 2nd, 2012
3:57 pm
I hope Obama gets a 2nd term. I don’t feel we’re on the wrong track as a nation as I did in `08.
RSH101
November 2nd, 2012
4:00 pm
LORI YOU NEED TO GET OFF OF WELFARE AND GET A LIFE……………………..
RSH101
November 2nd, 2012
4:07 pm
CHEROKEE YOU NEED A LIFE AS YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT A REAL NATIVE AMERICAN. AND IF YOU ARE YOU NEED YOUR HEAD EXAMINED… YOU ARE NOT INTOUCH WITH YOUR KIN OR ANCESTORS OR FOR THAT MATTER WITH OTHER NATIVE AMERICANS… WE WANT HIM OUT……. GET WITH THE PROGRAM
biguy
November 2nd, 2012
9:48 pm
I’m afraid that when obama loses, the blacks will riot to the point that the riots of 1968 will look like a sunday picnic. Hey white people. Stock up on ammo!!!!
GJ
November 2nd, 2012
11:05 pm
Apparently, by not supporting Romney I’m not an American, Barry? I’m every bit as American as any other commenter here.
I don’t truly want any of the Presidential candidates, but I especially do not want Mitt Romney to win the presidency, no way no how.
rosemary
November 2nd, 2012
11:09 pm
Tiberius – cluelessly pulling the tail of the left AND right
I know you don’t son!..ignorance is bliss.
even you would have noticed the rolling conflict in the middle east ..
we are still helping you in Afghanistan .. perhaps closer to the mark would be …”Just don’t bother calling us when you want your next bailout or rescue from a tyrannical neighbor, OK?”.. OK
ATLien
November 3rd, 2012
12:51 am
Tom,
It’s not a question that you would ask of Bush, Reagan, Clinton, Carter or any other of the 43 presidents. That’s the point. The same way no other president’s American citizenship has been questioned. So you and I know this is not an innocuous question on your part. You and people of your ilk have other motives and its quite disrespectful.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
November 3rd, 2012
6:18 am
GJ: I’m every bit as American as any other commenter here.
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How do you figure? You apparently plan to support someone who doesn’t like America, someone who is working hard to destroy our free market capitalist foundation, who has no respect for private property rights, who believes government should decide how much people make. If that’s what you support, then you’re not an American.
Vicky
November 3rd, 2012
7:45 am
President Obama took an oath to protect our troops and our country and it really makes me sick to know he let those two men die and sit there watching them beg for help. President Obama did this for the sake of the election and then lied to America about it. HE’S GOT TO GO
Cameron Jarman
November 3rd, 2012
12:29 pm
Lil Bar Bar need s to think again! and again and again! President Obama will win again! Try to contain your anger issues!
GaVoter
November 3rd, 2012
2:58 pm
Yesterday in Oh Romney drew a crowd of 30,000 while O drew a crowd of 2800 and this morning in Oh O only drew a crowd of 4000. So this doesn’t look promising for O in Oh. Just saying
dawn myl
November 3rd, 2012
5:09 pm
Romny is a flat out liar ..republicans will wish they voted for obama if he wins
Jaddy Baddy
November 4th, 2012
1:59 pm
Does Middle America honestly believe that Barack
Obama is going to take Oprah Winfrey’s money away
from her, and give it to Middle Class America?
Do you think Michael Jordan would support a president
who was going to take away his money and give to You?
Would P Diddy, George Clooney, Barbara Streisand or
Brad Pitt honestly support a president who took their
money and gave it to Middle Class America? You may
like to Imagine they would, but would they?
Quite the opposite, Barack Obama has taken your
Middle Class America’s tax dollars and given them
to, count ‘em, Wall Street Bankers, Wall Street
Credit Card Hounds, and Wall Street Mortgage
Brokers. How much bailout money did Barack Obama
give Y O U ? If you got Barack Obama’s bailout,
then vote for him, if not…
When I vote, I won’t be voting for the man who gave
away MY MONEY, I don’t care how many Wall Street
lawyers cried for it. Barack Obama may cut Middle
Class America’s fiscal throat, again, but I am NOT
going to help him do it.
rosemary
November 7th, 2012
7:38 am
I ..told ..you ..so.
Celebrations in Australia.