Poll: Independent Voters Like Barack Obama but Prefer Mitt Romney’s Message | At the Races

Poll: Independent Voters Like Barack Obama but Prefer Mitt Romney’s Message | At the Races: "Perhaps the poll’s most informative findings in terms of educating us on the direction of the 2012 presidential race and what might affect the outcome: Third Way reports in a memo discussing the survey that it has refined its data to identify the 38 percent of independent voters that are still “up for grabs” — voters it designates as “swing state independents” — and discovered that while this demographic has more positive feelings toward President Barack Obama than his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, these voters are “closer ideologically” to the former Massachusetts governor."