Today in news I wasn’t expecting to see, from Jalopnik:

Polling amongst NASCAR fans isn’t looking good for Mitt Romney, who is behind Barack Obama by seven percentage points — 41% to 48%.

The poll, conducted by polling pollsters Zogby, showed that NASCAR’s loyal fan base are actually in Barack Obama’s corner, so to speak. The crosstabs show a small sampling, but those who identify as NASCAR fans prefer the president.

Romney had been on the straight and narrow working to appeal to the traditionally conservative NASCAR base and has already spent time campaigning in North Carolina around NASCAR shops. There is even a Romney/Ryan 2012 NASCAR in existence.

Sure, it’s only a poll, and sure it’s a small sample size, but the fact that Obama is beating Romney in these demographics at all is incredibly surprising — especially when one considers how many NASCAR drivers have turned down invitations to the White House.

But hey, I guess that stock car racers aren’t the only ones who keep turning left, eh?

[Jalopnik – Poll Shows Barack Obama Leads Mitt Romney Among NASCAR Fans]

This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.

4 replies on “Obama Has The Inside Track On NASCAR Fans, Poll Shows”

  1. Bull….this shows how bogus polls are. Michelle was BOOed by Nascar fans. Booed. Can’t even imagine that happening to Ann Romney.

  2. Indeed, David Mendez. Perhaps the next big thing in journalism will be the (ironic) aggregation of polls. BooMan has some weekend thoughts about Rasmussen (a frequent resource, a while back, of the Senior Writer), et al:

    “Rasmussen Polls Should Be Shunned”

    at:

    http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/9/…

    aggregation being a whole new game for them…

  3. Great last line, but really hard to believe. Maybe if he hadn’t sued Arizona and gotten involved in other states’ attempts to conduct honest elections, he’d have a chance, but I think it will occur to most people that there’s something wrong with the polls.

  4. Give up on the truth, eh Mendez? Nobody believes these spun polls. You’re living in a dream world.

    “……Corruption: In the latest blow to President Obama’s phony likability, his political adviser David Axelrod and Attorney General Eric Holder have been exposed as tag-team partners. One bullies Gallup, the other prosecutes.
    Can intimidating America’s best-known pollster, then targeting the organization legally, possibly be a coincidence?

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