Even the Fox News Poll Shows Obama's Lead Growing: Is Romney Losing the Attack Ad War?

by Chris D Posted 2012/08/10 18:00:00

Related Topics: 2012 Election, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Fox News, Election Poll, Attack Ads

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President Obama opened up a 9-point lead in the most recent Fox News poll. Looks like all the negative ads and character assassination tactics are working. Negative ads may be bad for the American political landscape, but they seem to be working for Obama, at least for now. Do you think Romney will lose the game of hardball -- or will he rebound and win just in time for the election?

FOXNEWS.COM reports:
The president would take 49 percent of the vote compared to Romney's 40 percent in a head-to-head matchup if the election were held today, the poll found.

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Dave**Gay for Girls** 2012/08/10 18:59:19

Mitt Romney will rebound

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The Obama campaign is spending more than it's taking in on attack ads...Romney hasn't really begun to attack Obama and his campaign has plenty of cash on hand, September and October will see the onslaught against Obama begin and he'll be underfunded to respond.
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ducdodger to mblack 2012/08/11 17:27:46

it could but it show that the media is trying to sway the election to the out come they want.

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MsDianna 2012/08/11 04:25:56

Mitt Romney will rebound

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Yes Romney will rebound. We've got to get Obama out of White House.
Obama and all his crew must be kicked out of Washington in November
or before. America's got to wake up. Can't just sit at the coffe shops,
restaurants, where we work and just complain about what's going on.
Have to register to vote and show up on election day!
God bless America!

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loudelk99 2012/08/11 04:17:24

Mitt Romney will rebound

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I don't think any poll can reflect what is going to happen on election day.

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"OG" 2012/08/11 04:16:52

Mitt Romney is losing

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The attack ads. Since Obama can't run on his accomplishments he has to run on his hate ads, What i find really funny is Democrats are the 1st to scream about Republicans spreading hate but they have no trouble standing behind the hate their Democratic leader is spreading as he runs for a 2nd term.

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Jackie G - Poker Playing Pa... 2012/08/11 04:13:56

Mitt Romney will rebound

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A chicago thug is winning the attack ad contest - that is apparent, scum does tend to float to the surface occasionally. I do think that Obama and his minions are so out of control now that they have made decent people sick - I still have faith in the American people and there ability to smell out despicable people as apposed to decent successful people - I predict Romney will rebound because of his general decency and outstanding experience.

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Chris 2012/08/11 04:12:21 (edited)

Mitt Romney is losing

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The second people didn't support Ron Paul, they might as well just cast their votes for Obama themselves because they just gave him the win. Most people don't want to go back to status quo republicans that assisted in destroying this economy. That time era is over. Ron Paul at least stood for something.

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james.b... to Chris 2012/08/11 04:35:32

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I'd advise you vote Gary Johnson :P It does two things.

1. It tells people that we are not just kids worshipping a man, but instead we are a united demographic - a libertarian demographic.
2. Write-ins are immediately discarded and never looked at. It does nothing for us.

In the end, however, your vote is your vote and I would never wish to impede it.

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Party B... to james.b... 2012/08/11 08:45:57 (edited)

Does it have to be older? Like, can we take away from the amount of "older" and transfer it to "truer"? "Older" stopped working when the government outlawed slavery.

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james.b... to Party B... 2012/08/11 23:09:32

Excuse me? I don't quite understand the question. :)

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Party B... to james.b... 2012/08/12 03:10:22

Progress, my friend. :) We wouldn't be where we are if we leaned back on older, traditional methods as far as technology goes. We don't need to bring back old thinking, we need to clean up the current think. There's a sweet spot where "true" and "new" coincide, and this country, no, this world will be able to do great things if we can find the honesty and goodness in today's thinking. Our world is polluted with corruption, and progress is what abolishes this corruption. If we didn't have the concept of progress, we'd still be using horse and buggy for transport, America would just be a British coloney, and women would still be second class to men. We need to channel the energy of the new generation of people in order to better the world.

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james.b... to Party B... 2012/08/12 03:43:46

How exactly does this tie in with Gary Johnson? Lol. I think everyone says what you said, but argue on the method.

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Party B... to james.b... 2012/08/14 04:12:31

Gary said, and I quote, "Not for an untried new social experiment, but for something older, truer, and conceived in liberty." and I propose we just cut the "older" part of the plan. We don't need old fashioned policies, we need policies that can keep up with the times.

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james.b... to Party B... 2012/08/14 05:34:18

I think he meant older in terms of social ideas - meaning less restrictions on personal freedoms.

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Party B... to james.b... 2012/08/15 04:42:02

Ahh, now that's an interpretation I never considered. When put that way, I'm behind him 100%! :)

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james.b... to Party B... 2012/08/16 06:29:06

I can't speak for him, but he is an amazing candidate in my opinion. A cost-benefit libertarian? Well I don't think it can get much better than that!

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Party B... to james.b... 2012/08/17 04:34:55

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Agreed! :)

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aneed2know 2012/08/11 04:02:24 (edited)

Mitt Romney is losing

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And it would seem the poster of this questions is as full of BS as Fox noise it, wanna talk about Character assassination, okay lets talk about it. What TV host proudly proclaimed that Obama is racist towards whites, which TV channel day in and day out keeps calling Obama a communist and socialist, which News channel kept airing reports about Obama and the ACA wants to kill old people, come one now you low life hypocrite conservatives this is a easy one for ya, if you ya can tell the truth? Which i doubt very serious if you guys can, but at least try and be honest with yourself.

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garyt212 to aneed2know 2012/08/11 06:25:34

Hey you got it right for a change....based on his record, beliefs, policies, practices and written statements in his books obama is an anti-American, communist, socialist, racist and yes obamacare will not be free and health care for the elderly will be curtailed. Congrats!

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BlackSouth to garyt212 2012/08/11 10:06:11

You didn't answer not one part of his question.

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PoliticallyIncorrect 2012/08/11 03:59:08

Mitt Romney will rebound

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Polls right now don't matter much, but I don't believe most of the polls anyway. Other than Rasmussen and possibly Gallup, most of the polls run a 10% Democratic overage and the deal with Americans is that they want to vote for a winner. If they can make it look like Obama is ahead in the polls, people who wouldn't have voted for him will. With a Democratic overage, the poll will always lean toward Obeyme. I don't believe that Americans are fundamentally that stupid to believe him. The ads that Obeyme and his regime are running right now show what a truly disgusting person he is. The more personal attacks he throws out, the lower they are getting. Romney has been staying on point and perhaps when Americans actually vote they'll realize that Obeyme is morally bankrupt and not good enough to be re-elected. He never had enough class to merit being elected the first time.

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Red_Horse 2012/08/11 03:40:15
Politic... to Red_Horse 2012/08/11 04:00:40

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If you listen to the disclaimers, you will note that most of the polls actually admit to having more Democrats in the sampling to begin with. Of course Obeyme will come out on top in those.

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Red_Horse to Politic... 2012/08/11 04:02:24 (edited)
Politic... to Red_Horse 2012/08/11 04:06:46

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I find it distressing to think that Americans to be so undereducated and stupid to even think about voting for Obeyme.

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Red_Horse to Politic... 2012/08/11 04:11:39 (edited)
Politic... to Red_Horse 2012/08/11 04:29:07

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I wish that Romney could find a large quantity of antiObamabiotics then. LOL

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Charles... to Red_Horse 2012/08/11 09:10:21

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" Gallup and Rasmussen are still the most dependable. "
BARELY!

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Red_Horse to Charles... 2012/08/12 00:40:03
yogiOK 2012/08/11 03:37:07

Mitt Romney will rebound

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I don't think that he is losing, but rather this ridiculous liberal media is showing it as such, in the hope that this will create some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. The large majority of the nation recognizes that Obama is just terrible, and anyone else would have to be better.

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T J 2012/08/11 03:26:55

Mitt Romney is losing

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I wouldn't call it character assassination, Romney needs a character to begin with. Right now, he's just a robot that does and says what trends. Anyway, of all the smear jobs done to Obama from the time he came on the scene till now, it's about time he fought fire with fire.

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Politic... to T J 2012/08/11 04:02:25

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Romney is 100% better than the lying POTUS we have now. The more ads Obeyme puts out, the more obvious it is that he is morally bankrupt.

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T J to Politic... 2012/08/11 23:51:56

Only in your own fantasy is Romney better than Obama. Come to the real world.

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Politic... to T J 2012/08/12 02:26:25

Like you're in the real world, lololol, friend of John Wayne Gacy, are you?

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T J to Politic... 2012/08/13 00:38:57

I am in the real world. Are you a friend of that guy who killed those Sikhs?

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Politic... to T J 2012/08/13 01:56:51

Don't know him, but from the look of your avatar, I'd say he must be your father.

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T J to Politic... 2012/08/13 06:02:47

No, not really.

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aneed2know to T J 2012/08/11 04:04:12

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can you believe the crap in this guy's posting, its Obama now who is being a character assassin, after all the crap Fox allowed to go unchecked by their on air personalities?

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Politic... to aneed2know 2012/08/12 02:28:21

You actually have to have character for it to be assassinated. Obeyme has no character and is anti-American, a liar, and a cheat. His approval of the ads running is more than a sin, it's a total disgrace, sickening, and disgusting. Obeyme has lowered himself to an all time low in morals.

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aneed2know to Politic... 2012/08/12 03:56:54

so me no speak bagger

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Politic... to aneed2know 2012/08/12 05:06:48

Want to translate that? LOL

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