Vanderbilt poll: Obama closes gap with Romney

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http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120520/NEWS/305170107/Vanderbilt-poll-Obama-closes-gap-Romney

President Barack Obama has pulled into a virtual tie with presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in traditionally conservative Tennessee, according to a new Vanderbilt University pol..

The poll also found that Tennesseans weren’t thrilled with the Republican-led General Assembly’s frequent focus on social, cultural and religious issues this year. But Republican Gov. Bill Haslam managed to remain above the fray, winning approval from 61 percent of poll participants.

“Tennessee is clearly a red state,” said John Geer, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt. “But these data show that the public is much more moderate than our state legislature.”

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“We’ve been tracking it for some time,” Freeman said Thursday. “We’ve watched it go from a solid-Republican (state) to a leaning-Republican to, we believe, a toss-up state now. We think we’re just a point or two behind and that winning Tennessee is in our grasp

[LonePirate]

1. Obama will not win TN. He will be lucky if he is within 10 points.

Polls of residents 18 and over are simply not reliable for determining the winner of a presidential election.

[Honeycombe8]

2. Interesting. nt

[qazplm]

4. not really

not a poll of even registered voters, much less likely voters.

I don't know why they wasted the money.

[ananda]

3. If that's the case..

.. Obama will win the general in a landslide.

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R