Shock poll: Obama could lose Illinois
President Barack Obama could lose his home state of Illinois in November, a new poll shows.
A poll conducted by Illinois-based pollster and political strategist
Michael McKeon found Obama leading Republican Mitt Romney by 49 percent
to 37 percent in Cook County, the home of Chicago. That puts him ahead
by a far thinner margin than expected in a county he should be winning
handsomely.
Cook is the most Democratic leaning county in the state. It is also the most populous.
Those numbers do not bode well for the president.
“He has to come out of Cook County with a big lead or he’s gonna have
problems downstate,” explained McKeon, who said that based on the
numbers he had seen, Obama polled only in the forties in downstate
Illinois.
“It’s not like his policies are very popular downstate,” McKeon said.
“He’s viewed as more part of Chicago than he is part of Illinois.”
According to the poll, which surveyed 629 registered voters last
week, Obama’s problems are not in Chicago proper, but in suburban Cook
County.
In the city of Chicago itself, he retains a 60-29 lead over Romney.
But the Republican challenger leads 45-38 in the surrounding areas.
Across the county as a whole, Romney leads 43-31 among independent
voters, a crucial voting bloc. Romney also holds a 44-38 lead among male
voters, and a 53-40 lead among white voters.
Illinois is not considered a swing state by any means; it is seen as
solidly blue, and has been for the past two election cycles. But McKeon
pointed to the 2010 gubernatorial race when Republican Bill Brady came
within a single percentage point of now-Gov. Pat Quinn because Brady won
most of the downstate counties. That is a feat Romney could repeat this
year, leaving Obama vulnerable if he cannot expand his lead in Cook
County.
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Ron 2012/08/20 18:38:12
of course you know I'm just kidding bubble....:-)
$ 180,000.00 upside down but I hold Liberal Democrates responsible for it. I also agree with you that the CEO's don't deserve what they got and some of them should go to jail. Liberals are constantly harping about "fairness" I've got a problem with not applying the laws to everyone including politicians. If we are going to send bankers to jail for what they did then then why not the Congressmen that caused it and allowed it to happen. The Liberal Democrates in Congress deregulated the home loan industry to make it easier for low income and minorities to get home loans
they couldn't really afford thats what caused this problem not the republicans like the Dems want you to believe. There were 2 Republicans that actually tried to warn them that the housing market was going to collapse if they continued down this path they didn't listen and we are all suffering for their damn Liberal stupidity. There were people high up in the Obama administration that were given "Special Loans" are they going to jail I think not, is that "fair" no. So when we start throwing all of them in jail includeing the politicians this crap is going to keep happening the o...
$ 180,000.00 upside down but I hold Liberal Democrates responsible for it. I also agree with you that the CEO's don't deserve what they got and some of them should go to jail. Liberals are constantly harping about "fairness" I've got a problem with not applying the laws to everyone including politicians. If we are going to send bankers to jail for what they did then then why not the Congressmen that caused it and allowed it to happen. The Liberal Democrates in Congress deregulated the home loan industry to make it easier for low income and minorities to get home loans
they couldn't really afford thats what caused this problem not the republicans like the Dems want you to believe. There were 2 Republicans that actually tried to warn them that the housing market was going to collapse if they continued down this path they didn't listen and we are all suffering for their damn Liberal stupidity. There were people high up in the Obama administration that were given "Special Loans" are they going to jail I think not, is that "fair" no. So when we start throwing all of them in jail includeing the politicians this crap is going to keep happening the only way to cahnge it is vote for people who are willing to change what's going on in Washington, and personally I think it's to late. We are going to have to suffer to fix it and I don't think most Americans are willing to do what it's going to take to fix it. So we will keep going down this Liberal path until everything collapses, and it will, eventually Socialists run out of other peoples money and their house of cards collapses. Unfortunately they take the rest of us with them and its our own fault for continuing to vote for them and believing the lies they spue.
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In 2800 pages of ObamaCare, Obama administration buried a provision, where one can be completely exempt from paying even a cent in Health Care penalty/tax, if buying insurance is against his religious believes. Such aversion to insurance can be found in Muslim religion, where insurance is viewed as gambling..I just received an email with a report...i will be posting it soon.
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