2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumObama leads in NC 46 - 45
Note, this poll was taken PRE-Biden Bump, showing romney's "blip" is over.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-significant-post-debate-shift-seen-in-north
"President Obama leads Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the key swing state of North Carolina 46 percent to Romney's 45 percent, according to a new poll released Friday from High Point University (HPU).
The poll, which surveyed 605 likely voters from Sept. 29-Oct. 10. "
barbtries
(28,794 posts)he can take this state!
bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)God, I'm excited about election day!
writes3000
(4,734 posts)Which has been posted a few times.
1) it spans a long period of time so it might not gie the best snapshot of what's going on right now.
2) the poll explains that Romney did better than the President in the dates following the debate.
Thanks for posting good news though!
woolldog
(8,791 posts)4 days predebate in which Obama was winning and a big shift after the debate.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)...I doubt Obama had a 9-point lead in NC. The poll looks like single-day polling.
The mid Sept poll showed Obama 48, Romney 44
http://acme.highpoint.edu/~mkifer/src/17memoa.pdf
Previous to that:
Romney 46, Obama 43 (early September)
http://acme.highpoint.edu/~mkifer/src/16releasea.pdf
Obama 43, Romney 43 (late August)
http://www.highpoint.edu/blog/2012/08/27/hpu-poll-obama-and-romney-deadlocked-in-north-carolina/