Obama vs Romney?

[flobadob]

This MSN poll would appear very conclusive but does it match up to Americans' attitudes? http://news.ie.msn.com/us-election-poll-2012

[factor-fiction]

Those results are based on 437 responses and there is no control over who votes. One of the votes is from me. It's about as unscientific as you can get

[237SJ]

From what I have seen (being in the US for a lot of the time) Romney seems to have the upper hand. I hope not but that seems to be the case. I would love Obama to get in again but I`m not sure that is going to happen.

[factor-fiction]

This poll was showing 85% for Obama and only 15% for Romney. I would prefer Obama to stay in but there is no chance of him winning by anything like this margin of victory. The MSN poll seems a waste of time to me

[237SJ]

I think that the outcome of the American elections are so much more difficult to predict than ours. It really depends where the polls take place. A poll that takes place in Detroit will give very different results than a poll that takes place in New York. I would hate to see Romney get in but he does seem to represent a certain section of Middle America and that is a huge section.

[flobadob]

Maybe they should just let Europeans do the voting, then everything will be okay.

[Brenden]

Would like to see Romney win, Obama has done very little for the american people since he took office.

[sandyRoe]

I asked ABers who they'd vote for if they could. The great majority opted for Obama.
But there's only one poll that counts.

[flobadob]

Yeah Brenden, cos the Republicans did so much when they were last in power. Dragged Americans into the worst recession ever and two unwinnable wars. Please come back Republicans, we miss you.

[ichkeria]

"Maybe they should just let Europeans do the voting, then everything will be okay. "

Or indeed any other country in the world bar Pakistan where Romney is apparently ahead. Romney leads by 0.9% it would seem on the latest poll averages in the US, which is too narrow to be of any significance.
It's not surprising that the MSN poll favours Obama so highly, but I can't think of a polite way of explaining why that probably is. I suspect most people will not need an explanation :-)

[Bazile]

I haven't seen the debates - however going on the apparent consensus that Obama just didn't turn up .
If he had , do you think that Obama would be well ahead in the opinion polls ?