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To: Ron who wrote (206820)	11/3/2012 12:01:41 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542108

Don't worry, be happy--Mike Allen says, "Choose your own reality" (really, he wrote that)-- CHOOSE YOUR OWN REALITY: --Tampa Bay Times, 5-col. lead, “Romney remains on top: In our poll of likely Florida voters, the Republican challenger has a 6-point advantage over Obama,” by Alex Leary: “Florida continues to look good for Mitt Romney. The Republican holds a 6-point lead in the state essential to his hopes of defeating President Barack Obama, according to a new Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9/Miami Herald poll. The poll shows slight tightening, with Romney's 51-45 lead down 1 percentage point from the Times' statewide poll a month ago. Other Florida surveys show a tighter contest and both campaigns are blanketing the state with appearances geared toward scraping together every last vote. “Still, nearly every key indicator in the Times' pre-Election Day poll reveals Romney's advantage in a state Obama won four years ago. Florida voters trust Romney more to fix the economy and give him an edge, 50 percent to 48 percent, on who will look out more for the middle class — a stark turn from past months when Obama and his allies unleashed a barrage of TV ads portraying Romney as an out-of-touch corporate raider. Romney even has a slight advantage on foreign policy.” bit.ly --WSJ A5, “Obama Holds Lead in Florida and Ohio Polls,” by Neil King Jr.: “The Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist Poll surveys of likely voters released Friday show Mr. Obama maintaining a foothold little changed from four weeks ago, when the Journal surveyed voters in both states just after Mr. Romney's strong debate performance in Denver. The surveys found the two battling neck-and-neck in Florida, with Mr. Obama drawing 49% support among likely voters to Mr. Romney's 47%. Mr. Obama held a firmer lead in Ohio—51% to 45%, unchanged from mid-October.” politico.com

To: Ron who wrote (206820)	11/3/2012 12:03:15 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 542108

And here comes Burns & Haberman with their reality. This political season is a regular Hall of Mirrors.... Poll: Obama up 6 in Ohio, 2 in Fla. By ALEXANDER BURNS \| 11/3/12 12:10 AM EDT online.wsj.com The Wall Street Journal, NBC News and Marist College produce the umpteenth poll of the week showing Barack Obama with a steady edge in Ohio and a very close race in Florida: The surveys found the two battling neck-and-neck in Florida, with Mr. Obama drawing 49% support among likely voters to Mr. Romney's 47%. Mr. Obama held a firmer lead in Ohio—51% to 45%, unchanged from mid-October—where the relatively more buoyant economy and the federal bailout of the auto industry appear to have solidified his support among a wide swath of voters. In both states, Mr. Obama got high marks from all sides for his management of recovery efforts after the storm Sandy hit the East Coast. That tracks an array of polls taken in the past week suggesting that Mr. Romney's rise may have flattened out just before Sandy landed, an event that sucked national attention away from the campaign trail. In the Florida and Ohio polls, even a majority of Republican voters approved of Mr. Obama's handling of the storm's aftermath. The Florida result is significantly different from the Miami Herald poll published earlier tonight, but it's in line with the bulk of public polling showing a narrowly divided state. The Journal highlights the stability of Obama's performance in Ohio, where he fares better with whites than he does nationally, and where "little changed in [the electorate's] views in recent weeks." Romney launched his final weekend of campaigning in Ohio tonight and evidently needs a last-minute boost to overcome a pretty stable Obama lead.