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IRISH AMERICAN VOTERS are leaning towards incumbent Barack Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney – but only just.
A poll asking how Irish Americans plan to vote in Tuesday’s US Presidential election found Obama has a marginal lead of 51 per cent to Romney’s 48 per cent. One per cent of voters said they remain undecided.
The poll of just over 1,100 respondents was carried out for IrishCentral by Amárach Research.
Irish Americans have traditionally tended to favour Democratic party candidates but Michael McLoughlin of Amárach Research noted that simple stereotypes of the Irish American community are no longer as valid as they once were. ”This is a huge ethnic group – with diverse beliefs, views and goals,” he told IrishCentral.
The survey found 57 per cent of respondents had voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 election while 43 per cent had voted for Republican candidate John McCain, indicating a significant shift away from supporting the president.
Latest opinion polls ahead of Tuesday’s election show that the two candidates are almost tied, although Obama is slightly ahead in most swing states.
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Go Obama ! Good luck and hope you win
Yes. They both are terrible candidates. I do not believe there is democracy in the US, if there was you would have 4 to 6 parties and several candidates.
Instead we have the Green party presidential candidate getting arrested this week while trying to get into the presidential candidates debate between Romney and Obama.
American people living in Ireland : how about deliberating upon a candidate from a different party rather than Democrat or a Republican.
Eff off B Lowe, you have been on here saying that dictatorships are needed in this world. Clearly you are not for democracy.
Also it’s hypocritical of you to be calling for more parties in the USA but your alright with the Assad family running Syria for decades!
Yet again Declan, you fail to see that a single system of government rule does not work in every part of the world. There are places where democracy dies not work and a different system of governance is required.
The two parties even dominate in local/state politics where it is much easier for third party candidates to run for office. You want to explain that B Lowe? Could it be that that the third parties in the US are shit? The Green party can can barely get elected in Ireland. That Green Party candidate you are talking about getting arrested, has run for office in Massachusetts lots of different times and has never been close to winning. The only political office she has held was town council. If she cannot get elected in the most liberal state in the US why would they include her in a Presidential debate?
B Lowe, it’s clear to me that you don’t want democracy anywhere. You do not accept American democracy but you accept a Syrian dictatorship!
Declan, if you think there is currently genuine democracy in the US then you are misguided.
Anyway your entitled to your belief.
The Syrian government is currently trying to defend itself from terrorists. Any sovereign states is entitled to.
United States is not a democracy it’s a republic
The Libertarian party are good. Their presidential candidate is Gary Johnson. They agree with most of Obamas social policies like health. But are completely anti war. Their economic policies are conservative.
@Bryan it’s not a republic it’s a federal government that uses a first past the post system. We are a republic and we use proportional representation.
Both are democracies but I think what you meant was its ‘less democratic’ than countries like ours that use PR. ie. If 23% of the people vote labour then 23% of TD’s are labour. It’s a superior and fairer system, which also places far less power in the hands of one man. Guess for a country that claims to represent democracy they could probably do it a little better. But then again it’s such a huge country it needs to be federal, but maybe using PR would be better.
And North Korea is a Republic. So what? Such a daft statement.
I think republic is a term that’s really only used to emphasise independence. Open to correction on that
Both terrible candidates
Why do you say Obama is a terrible Candidate?
Even more incredible, why do you say Romney is a terrible candidate?
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O’Rourke
As if it matters who gets voted in…
It does…
17 out of 24 Romney advisors are ex Bush admin and as a group are heavy in Neocons….
Romney means a certain war with Iran, Obama much less so….
What will be, will be, no matter who gets in. They are only puppets for the real people who call the shots!
O’bama 2012…and he’s Irish even
That Irish Central is an awful rag.
A vote for Obama or Romney is a choice between a lesser of two evils. Everybody loses when you vote for an evil. Lesser or greater, evil is evil.
-Gerald Celente, Trends Research Institute.
” Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress…”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit…not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.”
Albert Einstein
Racists! 69% of non-whites are voting for Obama…but having said that I actually agree with B Lowe. The only real differences between them are on social issues, race etc. On economics, they’re both basically the same just Romney is more open about it.
i do hope that Mr Obama win,s once more . That orther guy reminds me to much on Bush. (badman) I do think if the orther guy gets in we are all f…ked and there lot more wars to come and lot more poor people around the world . So here,s to you Mr Obama
For once in my life I’d like to vote for a qualified candidate not just the lesser of two evils. Tuesday should be interesting.
Really? Only 51%?! I find that very hard to believe. I have spoke to many people about the upcoming American election and not once have I heard anyone who thinks Romney is a better candidate. In fact, most believe him to be a psychopath and a lunatic. For what it’s worth, I agree!
Obama has been mediocre, and barely more than third term Bush by upping drone killings and ending one war in Iraq leaving a sectarian dictatorship roughly when Bush would have, starting one in Libya which may or may work out, and carrying on Afghanistan. Guantanamo Bay is open, Homeland Security agents are still groping children. Election nights are fun to watch, but it’s just a competition between two banking and corporate drones.
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