Obama holds key leads on Romney, as economy malaise looms over reelection bid

[neurochaos]

9. I whole-heartedly agree…

Kind of reminds me of school when the teacher would give you a pop quiz or a chapter review so as to gauge what you know (or in this case - where you’re at).

Polls can also depress or inspire depending on the spin:

They could say we still have time to turn this around as Romney has a slight lead in creating jobs, economic issues and deficit reduction… whereas we could feel a bit nervous about that in spite of a strong showing for the President in the rest of the poll.

We can say that in spite of a slowly recovering economy and relentless attacks by the right, the President is in a remarkably strong position headed into the general election… and the right-wingers (looking at these numbers) must feel a panic-anxiety at the prospects of a 2nd term for President Obama. Just think back to how most of us felt when George W Bush had encouraging numbers for his re-election heading into the 2004 election.

Furthermore, the trickledown effect by this poll on the right-wing base places a strong sense of discouragement, frustration and anger as the disarray of the primaries, the discontent of having Romney as their nominee and a resonating populous message by the President will cause many republican voters to feel defeated.

It’s a snapshot in time; but I’d rather have it looking like this then the other way around.