And h/t to Digby for remembering this.
From The Harvard Gazette, December 15, 2011:
Harvard [Institute of Politics] poll predicts Obama loss
Millennials view Mitt Romney as strongest Republican
A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29-year-olds by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Harvard Kennedy School finds more millennials predict President Barack Obama will lose his bid for re-election (36 percent) than win (30 percent).
From The Washington Post, October 25, 2012:
Post-ABC tracking poll: Romney 50 percent, Obama 47
Republican Mitt Romney has edged ahead of President Obama in the new Washington Post-ABC News national tracking poll, with the challenger winning 50 percent of likely voters for the first time in the campaign.
As Romney hits 50, the president stands at 47 percent, his lowest tally in Post-ABC polling since before the national party conventions...
And just as the challenger has leaped ahead on this score, he has effectively neutralized what has been a consistent fall-back for Obama: economic empathy. In the new poll, 48 percent say Obama is more in tune with the economic problems people are having, and nearly as many, 46 percent, say Romney is the one who is more in touch. Just two weeks ago, Obama had a nine-point lead on the question.
From Business Insider, October 25, 2012:
Gallup: Mitt Romney holds 3-point lead over Obama
Republican nominee Mitt Romney remained 3 points ahead of President Barack Obama in today's Gallup daily tracking poll, a day after Obama had closed the gap with his Republican rival among likely voters...
From NPR, October 29, 2012:
NPR Poll Finds Presidential Race Too Close To Call
The latest and last NPR Battleground Poll for 2012 shows former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holding the narrowest of leads in the national sample, but trailing President Obama in the dozen states that will decide the election.
The poll adds evidence that the Oct. 3 debate between the two men redefined the race. But the movement toward Romney that emerged after that night in Denver also seems to have stalled after the race drew even — leaving the outcome difficult to call.
From The Wall Street Journal, October 31, 2012:
Rove: Sifting the Numbers for a Winner (by Karl Rove)
A crucial element: the mix of Democrats and Republicans who show up this election.
It comes down to numbers. And in the final days of this presidential race, from polling data to early voting, they favor Mitt Romney.
He maintains a small but persistent polling edge. As of yesterday afternoon, there had been 31 national surveys in the previous seven days. Mr. Romney led in 19, President Obama in seven, and five were tied. Mr. Romney averaged 48.4%; Mr. Obama, 47.2%. The GOP challenger was at or above 50% in 10 polls, Mr. Obama in none...
Desperate Democrats are now hanging their hopes on a new Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll showing the president with a five-point Ohio lead. But that survey gives Democrats a +8 advantage in turnout, the same advantage Democrats had in 2008. That assumption is, to put it gently, absurd.
...My prediction: Sometime after the cock crows on the morning of Nov. 7, Mitt Romney will be declared America's 45th president. Let's call it 51%-48%, with Mr. Romney carrying at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more.
From The Daily Caller, November 4, 2012
George Will predicts 321-217 Romney landslide
Add Washington Post George Will to the landslide column, along with Fox News Channel’s Dick Morris and the Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone.
On this weekend’s broadcast of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC, Will revealed his prediction and added a bonus surprise by saying traditional Democratic state Minnesota would go for Romney, as well...
There's more. Much more. Dick Morris, for example, but I like you too much to inflict that on you. Point is, it's mere days from the 2012 election and, frankly, Obama looks doomed.
Doooooomed, I tells ya!
