New Polls Show Ryan Pick Hasn't Given Romney a Boost

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate doesn't appear to have given him a boost in the polls. A new survey by Gallup released on Wednesday was one of several that showed that Romney's position in the presidential race remains virtually unchanged from what it was before he announced his VP candidate.

The exception to the findings from the rest of the national polls appeared to be the Purple Poll, which surveys likely voters in swing states. The Purple Poll found in its latest survey that Romney appears to have experienced a small boost from choosing Ryan among likely voters in those states, although overall the race between him and President Barack Obama remains a statistical dead heat.

Here are some of the key numbers to emerge from the new polling following Romney's VP pick.

47: The percentage of voters who told Gallup in the four days after Romney announced Ryan as his VP choice that they supported the GOP ticket, versus the 45 percent who said that they supported Obama. This is a gain of one percentage point for Romney, although the gap between Romney and Obama is still within the survey's margin of error.

4 in 10: An initial Gallup poll released on Monday showed that among Republican voters, some 40 percent rated Romney's choice of Ryan as either "excellent" or "pretty good."

42: The percentage of Republican voters in the initial Gallup poll who rated Romney's choice of Ryan as his VP either "only fair" or "poor."

3: The number of percentage points that stood between Romney and Obama in an Economist/YouGov poll released on Wednesday. Romney garnered 44 percent of the vote in that poll, versus Obama's 47 percent. This is a shift in the president's favor over last week, when only one percentage point separated the two men in this same poll.

1: The number of percentage points that the Romney/Ryan ticket leads the Obama/Biden ticket by in the latest Purple Poll. This is a shift in Romney's favor over similar polling in July, when Obama led him by two percentage points.

45: According to a poll released by Rasmussen Reports on Tuesday, Obama and Romney are now tied at 45 percent in the important swing state of Ohio.

51: The percentage of voters in Ohio who have a favorable opinion of Ryan, according to a different poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports on Tuesday, as opposed to 39 percent who have an unfavorable opinion of him.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/polls-show-ryan-pick-hasnt-given-romney-boost-223100765.html

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