More trouble for Obama City: Romney WAYYYY overtakes Obama on terrorism.

As heavily weighted to democrats as these polls are, typically, when a poll of some substance points out the obvious, it's trouble for Obama City.

That a weighted-to-democrat poll like this one comes out with this kind of information... this is very bad... and obviously understated.

New poll: Romney overtakes Obama on terrorism

Posted By Uri Friedman  Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 12:49 PM   Share

 

The foreign-policy results of the new Bloomberg National Poll haven't gotten much attention yet, but the survey contains some bad news for the Obama campaign. According to the poll, Mitt Romney has a 48-42 advantage over Barack Obama on the question of which candidate would be tougher on terrorism. Romney, in other words, has encroached on one of Obama's signature strengths.

What makes this result so surprising is that the president has consistently trounced Romney when it comes to counterterrorism. A Fox News poll earlier this month found that 49 percent of respondents trusted Obama to do a better job than Romney in protecting the United States from terrorist attacks, compared with 41 percent who put their faith in the Republican candidate. The president had a 51-40 advantage on handling terrorism in an ABC News/Washington Post poll around the same time, and a 50-35 edge on carrying out the war on terror in an Ipsos/Reuters poll in August. The Democrats' rare national-security muscle was on full display at their convention, where speakers boasted about the administration's successful raid against Osama bin Laden and targeted killings of al Qaeda leaders.  

The Bloomberg poll contains other grim findings for Obama -- such as declining approval of the president's diplomacy and a neck-and-neck battle between Obama and Romney on flashpoint campaign issues such as energy independence, Chinese trade practices, relations with Israel, and Iran's nuclear program (61 percent of respondents were skeptical about Obama's pledge to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon). There are also bright spots for the president, like healthy skepticism about Romney's promise to designate China a currency manipulator and Obama's continued advantage over Romney on the question of which candidate would be better suited to handle a Mideast crisis.

Apparently, if you hit the voter in the head enough, even they will begin to notice.

And the other problem we've got is that when your president is an outright liar like this one, you really can't EVER believe him or take his word for it.

This is yet another blow.. ESPECIALLY when viewed through the democrat over-sampled prism that is the methodology of polls today.