PPP: Romney +10 in Missouri (taken largely before Akin scandal)

[TroyD]

Poll was done on the evening of August 20th. Will be interesting to see if Romney's numbers go down by the time they do their next poll.

Barack Obama came awfully close to winning Missouri in 2008, but his chances of doing it again in 2008 don't look very good. Our newest poll there finds him trailing Mitt Romney by a 10 point margin, 52-42.

Missouri's one state where Paul Ryan's selection might really be helping the GOP ticket. He has a 48/40 favorability rating there, better poll numbers than Obama, Romney, or Joe Biden has in the state. Voters there even narrowly support the Ryan Plan, 41/38, the first place where we've found that to be the case since Romney announced his selection.

Romney's substantial lead comes for 3 reasons. 1) He leads 49-43 with independents. Republicans are more unified than Democrats. 2) 86% of GOP voters are committed to Romney, while Obama has only 82% of Democrats behind him. And 3) The state's moved to the right since 2008 and we find that the electorate is likely to be much more Republican friendly this time around.
Romney has narrowly positive favorability numbers at 48/45. Obama is deeply unpopular in the state with only 42% of voters approving of him to 55% who disapprove.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_MO_823.pdf

[Cosmocat]

1. BO can get it done without Missouri -McCaskell IS VITAL

to helping to keep the Senate from the Rs ...

[Robbins]

2. Well

Can I say how stupid my fellow missouri residents are?

48 percent favorabilty for Romney and Ryan.41 percent favoring Ryan plan that turns medicare Into voucher system.Taking 800
Billion from Medicaid and throwing It to states to cut even more,cutting educating and Food stamps.

[pnwmom]

3. Akin's already sinking like a stone, according to Rasmussen.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/aug/23/poll-akin-trails-mccaskill-10-points/

Missouri Rep. W. Todd Akin has plummeted in a new poll, falling 10 points behind Sen. Claire McCaskill in a survey taken after he made controversial comments about rape.

Once thought to be vulnerable to Republicans, Mrs. McCaskill now leads the battered six-term congressman 48 percent to 38 percent in a Rasmussen poll of 500 likely Missouri voters, conducted Wednesday.

That's a reversal from one month ago, when she trailed him by 3 points, although that poll was taken while Mr. Akin still was fighting off two challengers in a close primary battle.