(CNN) - A new poll of Wisconsin likely voters released Wednesday afternoon shows President Barack Obama with a double digit lead over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney there. It stands in contrast to other national and state polls released Tuesday and Wednesday which have shown a close race, some giving Obama a slight advantage over Romney.
The Marquette Law School Poll put Obama 14 percentage points ahead of Romney among likely voters in the Badger State. It also shows a significant change in the Wisconsin race for a U.S. Senate seat.
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The poll, like others released this week, was conducted entirely before secretly recorded clips of Romney speaking at a May fund-raiser consumed the political news cycle. The clips showed Romney describing recipients of government support as dependent and Obama supporters.
A separate poll of likely Wisconsin voters released earlier on Wednesday also showed Obama with an edge, but significantly less of one. His six point advantage over Romney (51% to 45%) in the New York Times/CBS News/Quinnipiac survey was outside of the poll's sampling error but far less than was indicated in the Marquette poll.
The Marquette poll showed Obama gaining five points and Romney losing six, as the two candidates were separated by three points in an August iteration of this survey.
Romney's running mate is Rep. Paul Ryan, a seven-term congressman from the state. In mid-August, the state was moved from leaning in Obama's favor to a toss-up between Obama and Romney on the CNN Electoral Map.
The poll also showed a significant shift in the U.S. Senate race between Rep. Tammy Baldwin and former Gov. Tommy Thompson. It shows Baldwin with a nine point lead over Thompson, 50% to 41% - a reversal of the two candidates' standings in the August survey. In that poll, Thompson was at 50% and Baldwin at 41%.
The professor who led the poll, Charles Franklin, said in a press release announcing the results, "These are both very large moves in just four weeks."
It noted Obama and Baldwin expanded their support among independents, while the support among partisans of their own candidates remained largely unchanged.
- CNN's Paul Steinhauser and Gregory Wallace contributed to this report
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but i thought that Anne romney humanized Mitt?
A separate poll of likely Wisconsin voters released earlier on Wednesday also showed Obama with an edge, but significantly less of one. His six point advantage over Romney (51% to 45%) in the New York Times/CBS News/Quinnipiac survey was outside of the poll's sampling error but far less than was indicated in the Marquette poll.
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And yet CNN decides to headline the outlier poll??? SERIOUSLY???
As a disabled vet and career Army Officer I don't appreciate Romney placing me in the 47% who aren't worth worrying about. He's just a spoiled draft-dodger who now plays the "chicken-hawk" game – ostensibly to promise defense contractors big bucks for their campaign contributions. He and "Lyin'-Ryan" are finished in Wisconsin!
Romney is now so far out, that he might as well go home to his car-elevator and shut up forever.
In the meantime the GOP should start planning an enormous housecleaning following the upcoming electoral defeat,
more humiliating then ever.
Just hearing that Paul Ryan was from there gave a boost...then they heard him talk.
The hits just keep coming.
Keep it rolling and we may have a chance to bury this modern GOP/TP batch of frauds in the history books forever as one of the most contemptuous and disrespectful group in our lifetime.
Modern day neocon righties keep doubling down. And losing. Where would they be without the big money donors? Amazing how a $200 cellphone camera will negate hundreds of millions in a couple months. Obama/Biden, D ticket 2012. Clinton/Warren 2016.
The endgame is at hand. No Ann, it most certainly is not your turn. Go buy a blouse, ride your horse, drive a Cadillac and go away.
The polls leading up to the govern's recall election showed a very tight race, but on election day, Gov. Walker won by 9 points. The polls in Wisconsin are very unreliable. If I were either canidate, I'd take nothing for granted or conceed anything here.
@ truth hurts.....
love it how your type always gripes about CNN YET you still keep coming here to post. I think you secretly enjoy it!
This is the way its gonna be if Romney doesn't shut his mouth,he's arrogent,brash,insensitive and he doesn't care who likes him,he just needs your vote,not you...He's there for the wealthy elitist who much like himself is not hindered by recessions,its better for them because things they need or obtain business wise is cheaper,that's why when recessions come around they pounce on everything,its inherient..Romney like most wealthy people are out of touch they don't personally pay their own bills,they don't fill up the cars gas tank,they don't go grocery shopping,they as wealthy elitist have their help do that,that's why Romneys out of touch.They don't get it,they don't suffer monthly economicly,they make enough by business or inheritance to pay bills ,they know it so don't ask someone like Romney to relate like me,he can't and won't,he doesn't have too,he's elite!!!
If Mitt cant win Iowa, forget Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Colorado. The reason why Wisconsin can elect a republican governor and pass conservative referendums is because minorities have extremely low turnouts on such elections. That will not be the case this coming election day.
The poll also showed a significant shift in the U.S. Senate race between Rep. Tammy Baldwin and former Gov. Tommy Thompson. It shows Baldwin with a nine point lead over Thompson, 50% to 41% – a reversal of the two candidates' standings in the August survey. In that poll, Thompson was at 50% and Baldwin at 41%.
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So this "poll" says there was a 9% flip in the Senate race IN ONE MONTH?! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Is this polling organization owned by George Soros???? Honestly CNN, why are you even mentioning this obvious trash poll?
truth hurts
A separate poll of likely Wisconsin voters released earlier on Wednesday also showed Obama with an edge, but significantly less of one. His six point advantage over Romney (51% to 45%) in the New York Times/CBS News/Quinnipiac survey was outside of the poll's sampling error but far less than was indicated in the Marquette poll.
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And yet CNN decides to headline the outlier poll??? SERIOUSLY???
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They mentioned it earlier. CNN posts all polls, including those you don't like and those you downright hate.
Mittens losing in his home state of Michigan and losing in Wisc., Ryan home state, is hilarious.
Wisconsin is full of hardworking, middle class people. what do you expect? Should they vote for a multi-miilionaire whose advice to students was to start businesses by borrowing money from their parents. He is out of touch. And he got his own hand outs, inheritance. Deferment to do "missionary work" ...in France. Off shore tax shelters.
Malory Archer
They mentioned it earlier. CNN posts all polls, including those you don't like and those you downright hate
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Posting the poll is one thing but headlining it and leaving the other nonoutlier polls below the fold is rather deceitful and/or biased.
"love it how your type always gripes about CNN YET you still keep coming here to post. I think you secretly enjoy it!"
There's a certain amount of masochism involved in being a non-millionaire GOPer/Teatroll.
Mitt had better campaign hard in Florida and do his best to keep Ohio close and hope voter suppression in Pennsylvania holds. He can forget Wisconsin. He's not going to do well in Colorado or Nevada either. Virginia might be in Romney's corner, but...who am I kidding, Romney's done!
Do not get happy
Do not get comfortable
Do not get complacent
Do not take anything for granted
It's a long way till November
And if you want your candidate to be elected
YOU are going to have to work for it
VOTE
get your friends an neighbors registered
GET THEM TO VOTE
The only way we win is if we VOTE
Just work hard, talk sense–know hidden cameras, etc, good luck, buddy.
could it be that the romney/ryan ticket is worse than mccain/palin?
Time for Mittens to move back to Mexico and practice being more Latino. He seems to think that will fool more people into voting for him.
"Posting the poll is one thing but headlining it and leaving the other nonoutlier polls below the fold is rather deceitful and/or biased."
I don't disagree. However, you have to understand though: it's not bias for one party or the other, because they do it both ways indiscriminately. Rather, it is a "bias" for sensationalism and controversy as the means by which they generate viewership and clicking activity, etc., in order to get better ad revenue. It's akin to their bias for false equivalencies and whitewashing actual, meaningful differences or helping people get away with falsehoods and lying. In that case, it's no less biased just because what they are doing is specifically designed to create an equivalence that doesn't exist. It causes them to treat as legitimate all sorts of untruths and ridiculousness so that they can have two sides playing off and against each other on the issue. Coming out and reporting that "so and sois full of crap and here's the facts to prove it" just wouldn't give them seomething to sensationalize and a controversy to perpetuate.
Truth is hurting.
Truth is hurting real bad.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
@ Me IN HOUSTON
You got that right!
Obama 2012. Pedal to the medal all the way through November 6th.
Pedal to the metal I meant. lol!