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Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama: An unskewed look at the latest polls
Sep 20, 2012

Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama: An unskewed look at the latest polls

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There are exactly seven weeks left today before election day in November. As we get close to that day, the polls for the presidential race get increasingly more attention. The Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll released today shows Mitt Romney leading over President Obama by a 47 percent to 45 percent margin. That same poll also shows Obama’s approval rating at 49 percent and his disapproval rating to be 50 percent. Even the skewed Gallup tracking poll, reported today, shows Obama leading by only one percent, at 47 percent to 46 percent for Romney.

The UnSkewed Average of polls released today shows a Mitt Romney lead over Barack Obama of 51.5 percent to 43.7 percent. The UnSkewed average of polls includes the unskewed data from several mainstream media and other major polls of the presidential race along with the QStarNews presidential poll. Here is an example illustrating the process of “unskewing” a skewed poll that over-sampled Democrats.

New Jersey-based Monmouth University released a new poll of the presidential race yesterday showing President Obama leading 48 percent to 41 percent among registered voters and 48 percent to 45 percent over Mitt Romney among likely voters. Unskewing this poll leads to a result showing Romney leading with a 46 percent to 45 percent margin over President Obama with registered voters, and likewise a 50 percent to 45 perfect Romney lead among likely voters.

The QStarNews Quick Poll of the presidential race released yesterday shows Mitt Romney with a solid 11 point lead, 55 percent to 44 percent, over President Obama. The poll, the first conducted by QStarNews, was a web-based survey that included 2075 respondents and a margin of error of three percent. The respondents participated in the survey between September 10-15. Additionally, the survey found 55 percent disapproving of the performance of President Obama while 45 percent approved of the president’s job in office.

The latest New York Times/CBS News poll of the presidential race released recently is yet another doctored poll that shows President Obama leading when its data indicates a Mitt Romney lead. The survey of 1170 registered voters, polled between September 8-12, has Obama leading over Romney by a 49 percent to 46 percent margin. Unskewing the data indicates a Romney lead over Obama by 51 percent to 44 percent.

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  • Debyclark

    Romney/Ryan 2012, thank you God in advance!

  • LoAnna

    Don’t think anything would surprise me in this election. Don’t have a difficult time believing results are skewed. Like the unskewed results much better!! Thank you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathleen.wagner.58 Kathleen Wagner

    I hope this holds true because I was beginning to think we Americans were losing our minds!

  • Kathy

    I Pray Mitt gets in, we need him!! Listening to the TV, I do worry. Doesn’t anyone listen about the WRONG Obaba has done ??

  • Cyndi Monroe

    Thanks for unscrambling the biased polls that are designed to dishearten us. Instead, my resolve is heightened! Let’s be brave, be bold, be prepared…and vote!

  • Maria

    Mitt, do not apologize for anything you’ve said or done. Your words are correct. You are the man for the job. Good luck. I’ll certainly vote for you.

  • Peg L.

    I just hope and pray this is true, we reallyl need to take back our country and get back to life liberty and freedom for all. Let’s work and pray hard that Mitt makes it in Nov.

  • etlinda_72

    I know someone who said that she was contacted 3 times in one day by 3 different pollsters for Obama asking if she was going to vote for Obama. (Didn’t know this person was a dumocrat). So she told each person each different person yes. So her question was, “Do you think I was counted 3 times for my one vote?” So this may be why the polls seem to so heavily favor Obama.

  • Mickie

    I pray it’s true, and that it continues! How could anyone in their right mind with high unemployment, unrest and killing in the Mideast over Obamas policies, over 16 trillion dollars in debt, no consideration for our constitution and too many other issues to name, vote for Obama! what world are they living in?

  • Mercy

    the liberal media is trying to condition the minds of the conservative voters
    because they plan to CHEAT!

  • mmbarto

    Let’s these jerks give the impression they’re ahead…then they’ll not work so hard in 7 weeks…!! Won’t they be surprised..?? Unless of course they can have a bazillion dead people and illegals voting..!!

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/QBXANA4SNMA4SWNPIRECJ7IAVE T.

      That also turns out to be a lie. Even our ultra right Rick Scott knows it’s a lie. but trying to PREVENT people from voting, as one repub guy admitted, so that R and R could win? That is not acceptable.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003108495824 Fay Uyechi

    Now is not the time to “let our guard down”, but rather to continue supporting Romney/Ryan by telling everyone we know the “truth” that they aren’t getting from the MSM. If you want Detroit personified, go for them. If you want our freedoms intact under this republic, fight for it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/sandra.means.7 Sandra Means

    I was in ca. visiting my daughter, I answered her phone and it was a recording, it started out.”hello brothers and sisters” then starting talking about our country and the recession. THEN IT ASK ME TO DIAL 1 IF I WAS GOING TO VOTE IN THE NOV. ELECTION. SO I DIALED 1, NEXT IT SAID” THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING PRES. OBAMA, SEE YOU AT THE POLLS”. Now, is that the kind of polls that has Obama ahead??

    • http://www.facebook.com/ina.harlan Ina Harlan

      I am sure it is. Thanks fr the info so we are aware ftese tactics. No one has ever asked me who I am voting for. I have enoughfriends and family that are completely against Obama to change the poll count

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/QBXANA4SNMA4SWNPIRECJ7IAVE T.

      I do not believe you. I’ve had hundreds of poll calls, and they were 100% objective.
      But as seen with Clinton vs Bush, about 90% of the women lied on polls, lied to their husbands and continued to lie. They even investigated the polling places, checked phone logs to see that calls were really made, polls were really done. The only explanation was that females lied on the polls en masse.
      I lied on one poll when the person asking me was a live woman. I was busting her chops is all. She was nearly crying, too and it was hilarious cuz she could have just hung up on me. I got a laugh out of it. But I lied on that poll and she has me down voting for Romney. heh.

    • Lacey Heather English

      Thank you for sharing that information. This is a critical time and we need to share every bit of information that Obama and his ‘team” are doing. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. He will not fool us twice.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ina.harlan Ina Harlan

    I pray this is true. I am not ready to be under Muslim rule in entirety. It is bad enough now. es take back our country and prayin without blood shed. Americaa is not going to give up easily. God Bless The USA

  • UtahRugbyGuy

    Haha, unskewed? Wtf? (R)s are a bunch of wacked out, cookoo, loons. You really think making up a new word like unskewed and mindlessly dreaming this is a real thing is what makes me sleep so soundly at night knowing maybe America is really not as hopeless as I used to think. The majority sees what the reality is, that (R)s are why we’re in this mess and the same kind of evil bitch wants to be pres but its just not happening GOP. It’s over. Real polls are real polls. Making shit up isn’t gonna change reality. When was the last time an “unskewed” poll predicted the correct outcome? It’s like the made up term, “liberal media”. News reports fact and fact is truth and certain breeds of loons don’t like what the truth says, so they make up a thing called liberal media to explain away the pain in your heart. It won’t go away. Suck the painful truth into your hearts until it hurts your tiny brains. Your souls are so frail and childish you’re willing to let a man, Romney, who is just like every one of you, who would do anything to cheat and rob people in business if it means more money for you. He would spit on your grave and piss in your cereal and screw you so royally to get your money …and somehow you love him for it. He fucks you, and you love him for it. He would take every penny from you and he’s your hero. You guys are so dumb and in your freaky lala land. It hurts me almost to see how in denial you are. I sat and watched an evil man profiteer from being president for 8 years and now you’re in financial trouble and the economy is a wreck and you want to put back into power a man who, date I say, is more evil than G Bush? You fuckers are so …fucking …stoooopiiiiiiid. Your hearts bleed for a man who took all your tax money and put it into the pockets of war companies and Haliburton to rebuild Iraq and you love him for it. You got fucked and you want more o the same. America IS smart enough to right our wrongs. That’s why Mitt is shit and O gets term 2 to fix everything. Now watch, O will pull us out of this mess in 4 more years and each and every one of you will be better off financially for it and you Rs will still find something to complain about and then you’ll be stupid again and rig another election and somehow miraculously get another R in the office and fuck it up all over again. Then a D will fix everything again an the process will repeat itself over and over again. Haven’t you all figured it out yet? Republican presidents get super rich and make cash for their families and friends and fuck up the country and then some D comes along who’s sick of people suffering and he or she will fix it again. However, that said, there won’t be a repeat of Bush 2 win over Gore. Obama has already won. Guaranteed. This thing is over. I’m calling it now. Then, 2016, sorry but history will be made again with the first woman president when Hillary destroys the next puppet with a plastic head the ‘pubs pull out next election. It’s over. Ds win. Hillary wins in ’16 and maybe, just MAYBE Rs might get their next shot IF they reinvent their party in the next 12 years and stop being such greedy fucks who destroy their country. They need to actually care about this country and stop being so unwilling to work to pass legislation to make our country strong again. That’s the real thing that’s killed your party. Real Americans want our gov to get things done. A lot of ppl forget that. That’s the real whole point of politics. To pass legislation that makes us all benefit. That’s why your party sucks now. Because those giant grown up R babies like Bohner who refuse to get anything done and pass any legislation, which, btw, is another thing you’re all going to hate this next term. Because, Obama winning is the least of your problems. Now the people who got duped by the Tea Party last time around are coming to the realization legislation needs to eat passed to fix this economy and fix this country. …and the final two years, Dems are going to get the majority back in the house and senate and then bill after shining bill is going to be passed so when Hillary is sworn in, she’ll have everything she needs to put the final touches on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and education so we can all profit from the real things “we didn’t build” …the roads, bridges and have clean and safe streets and smart kids that have futures. You fucks, you ruined our country under your false flag waving. Dems are the TRUE Americans who love this country and want to fix what’s wrong. Watch, another prediction. America will be better off than even under Bill Clinton by the time Hillary is finished and then you’ll want to fuck it all up again because you like it when your R leaders take all your money, kill people with it, and you love them for it because you think it makes us look strong. Strength is in the foundation, you stooooppiiiiiiiiid freaks. You looney tunes brainwashed freaks. Obama wins ’12. Hillary wins ’16 AND ’20-24. Out.

    • http://www.facebook.com/suzie.dionne.7 Suzie Dionne

      Wow, you are one angry and mean spirited person…….are you out of work too?!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Campbell/1403990135 Jennifer Campbell

      In the words of Travis Tritt “Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares”. We are completely and totally fed up with people like you who don’t have the intelligence God gave a gnat! Get off this page and go where your brain dead and totally clueless opinions are shared. Apparently, there are plenty of you left in this country. You obviously want a society that is totally controlled by Government. As for the rest of us here, we believe in freedom and opportunity and not WELFARE! The real story will be told on November 6th and I can’t wait to see the Left wing media sitting there screaming “What happened? We thought we had done enough lying and manipulating the truth to get our King re-elected” Obama believes “The private sector is doing fine” WRONG! We are not doing fine and he will find out what we really think! He is one of the most arrogant people that has ever been President. He totally ignored what the American people told him about his Healthcare plan. We did not want it! He found that out in the 2010 midterms, but he didn’t learn his lesson. He will find out just how WRONG he is!

    • ethelmckenna

      You obviously have a lot of time on your hands. Bet you are one of the Obama unemployed or underemployed success stories!

    • Kalli

      Please use nicer language. I can’t read this.

  • Victoria DeLacy

    Most of that polling boastfulness is usually off the mark – remember in the insanity of elections 2000 with the chad issues and then the media declaring Gore the winner, yet every time they did the recounts Bush won – let’s not be deceived by the liberally biased mainstream drive by media ever again!

  • UtahRugbyGuy

    Why did my post get deleted? Because my logic is flawless and (R)s have no way to argue against my brains. Bring back my post so I can continue with my mission to educate.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Karen-Goff-Schoonover-Butrick/1459989507 Karen Goff Schoonover Butrick

    Romney for President. Polls show the reflection of those they ask… I haven’t voted in any poll… Woman for Romney because we care about freedom…

  • karenm

    Does any of this REALLY surprise anyone. It has been futile for Romney to try to get any unbiased coverage from the media since day one. Yet maybe….just maybe good will prevail over evile on election day…provided our polls are not rigged in Obama’s favor like everything else. The media believes they will attract more of the “follow the herd” voters by making Obama look the strongest. This is just sick. We have gotten so far away from having media give us facts so we can make our own choices that it is scary….they are now in the business of mid control.

  • Ann

    I am praying for Romney and thus for our country.

  • http://www.facebook.com/karen.thomason.92 Karen Thomason

    Money can do wonders, but stop and say a Prayer, and work miracles….
    Heavenly Father, your Christian based America has been lead astray…. It is getting un-recognizable…. We are headed the wrong way. Guide all who go to vote in November to see the lies of the evil doer and vote for a good, honest Christian Family Man. We pray God, that the wrong done to our country is righted and to do this we pick a man of honesty and virtue, not lies and subversive acts for self admiration. Let those who would chose to vote believe in their heart that by voting for Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan we can save our country from the evils that are pressing at our shores. We were founded under you Father, and that is where WE MUST remain and continue onward.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003764948125 Coret OtheCountry

      In Jesus’ name, AMEN!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/QBXANA4SNMA4SWNPIRECJ7IAVE T.

    What the hell does “unskewed” mean? I think Obama is going to win simply based on the HUGE number of seniors and women I know (from clubs, thousands of them) who are registered republicans, that are going to vote for Obama due to the things Romney and Ryan SAID, not based on campaign propaganda or mud slinging, but based on what they were recorded as saying with their own mouths when they either weren’t running, or when they were caught with an open mic. I know Dems will vote for O, but I was surprised at the HUGE number of Repubs that also will, just based on Ryan’s own mouth and Romney’s own mouth in recent months.
    This race will be determined by the Independents. Maybe.

  • felicieful

    I guess truth is only important to us delusionals these days. Wrong!