Who's Really Ahead Now: Latest Obama vs. Romney Results

Mitt Romney must have dusted off his AC/DC record collection, pulled out the Peavey stack and began cranking up the volume. Coliseum-filling volume.

Two weeks ago we tallied up which candidate was really ahead based on overall web-wide consensus. At the time it showed Obama at 53 percent vs. 47 percent for Romney.

Our latest tally, July 15, showed Romney gaining a percentage point overall. Now it's Obama at 52 percent and Romney at 48 percent web-wide consensus. Here's the Web-Wide Consensus chart:

Last time we checked the social media chatter, the volume was purely in Obama's favor with him commanding 74 percent of social opinion chatter. Our latest tally shows Romney gaining some ground as 33 percent of the chatter is now about the Republican candidate. It was a key factor we think that had Obama ahead two weeks ago. As of July 15, Romney's social chatter volume for the past 30 days has gone up 25 percent while Obama's has dropped 10 percent vs. the prior 30-day period:

 

Comments

[BBackSoon]

03:21 PM on 07/16/2012

Web wide concencus?

Does this actually apply to Presidential voters or just Dancing with the next Idol?

[REPUBLICAN REDEFINED]

03:19 PM on 07/16/2012

The difference between the two candidates: Obama wants to be served. Romney wants to serve.

[Kenneth Kemp]

02:22 PM on 07/16/2012

Obama will get reelected because Republicans have nominated worse candidate in my memory. However libs are so busy worring about presidential race Republicans will take control of Senate and keep control of house.

[RealMenVoteRepublican]

01:42 PM on 07/16/2012

Mitt Romney is trending up, on his way to an easy victory in November. Mr. Romney looks and sounds more Presidential everyday, and is the man to restore seriousness and legitimasy to the office.

[Virginia Beringer]

01:34 PM on 07/16/2012

Umm, hello? Of course Romney's social chatter has gone up! Everyone is talking about Bain and his tax returns. Those are NOT positive things!!

[grnhrnt54]

01:24 PM on 07/16/2012

EXTRA EXTRA: Super Pac believes in ROMNEY. Just gave him 180 million dollars worth of belief. POOR President Obama. busted economy, busted Promises. Now he is flat broke.
GET TO THE PAWN SHOP!!!!!

[traceymarie]

02:32 PM on 07/16/2012

you do realize the economy crashed in 2006-2008 right bagger

[grnhrnt54]

04:13 PM on 07/16/2012

Yes I do. That is not helping the poor President.

[johnblack53]

03:09 PM on 07/16/2012

So you want the super rich to buy the best president and congress they can buy? If they did then what would your vote account for? NOTHING! Do you think that if these republicans had to chose to do for their corporate sponsors or small potato peons like you they will choose you? You better think again.

[grnhrnt54]

09:39 PM on 07/16/2012

I have a hope, that they will put people back to work.

[botazefa]

01:24 PM on 07/16/2012

"As of July 15, Romney's social chatter volume for the past 30 days has gone up 25 percent while Obama's has dropped 10 percent"

I would think that this points mostly to a broken data collection system. At any rate, the gyrations are too much to be trusted as to accurately reflect anything other than the choppy nature of this type of survey. I don't see how anyone can draw a conclusion from this.

[TCovertOps]

01:13 PM on 07/16/2012

What a waste of bandwidth that social media graph is: No indication of whether the increase in Romney "chatter" is positive or negative. Mentions in social media is not always a good thing.

[grnhrnt54]

01:00 PM on 07/16/2012

I love these chatter places. Last week I read that Obama had 35% of his supporters blogin. I commented that all of them must be here. Now it is only 33%. 2% doesn't seem to make
to much of a difference this time of day.

[realmichaud]

01:00 PM on 07/16/2012

none of the polls are correct..its gonna be a blowout...Obama wins big

[botazefa]

01:25 PM on 07/16/2012

I agree, Obama wins big, but to be clear this is not a poll. It is probably just some report that a web administrator generates from various phrases that appear in blogs. Hardly scientific.

[lowrdrrollinhigh]

01:34 PM on 07/16/2012

HAHAHAHA what a joke.....Obama is out funded this time and spending campaign funds faster then he can get them. Him bankrupting hollywood to support him. Obama was so low to ask wedding guest to send him MONEY not gifts. that is Ignorant and Self interest. Obama has been lookin real angry on TV lately. He seems to be lost on how bain capital works and spilling lies. which is comon for obama to do as he even lied about hillary when they were duking out the nominee. The bain capital kick is getting old why not find something new. romneys tax returns are also another old issue. it took obama many months just to supply a birth certificate. Congress is ordering Holder and Obama to release more documents to the Fast and Furious scandal. Yet they are still hiding the documents probably shreading them as Americans Died because of this chaos obama and holder set up. If your on Obama's side then you dont support america if u think F & F is ok. Holder just released a buncha pointless documents that you can clearly see more was going on but they dont wanna show it. OBAMA LIES AGAIN! Obama didnt attend the NAACP convention.... turning ur back on the blacks i see. im sure that angered many.

[realmichaud]

10:04 AM on 07/17/2012

pablum.....as far as Money goes....being president is at least worth a billion dollars...have a nice day

[Gail Robinson]

12:49 PM on 07/16/2012

The GOP's effort at saying NO to almost everything. Stating day one making him a "one-term "president" has come back to bite them.

[sobe123]

12:41 PM on 07/16/2012

I'm starting to wonder how many Skeltons are sitting in Romney's closet.

[Jeffbaseball]

12:39 PM on 07/16/2012

Barack will win in the end

[Eris23Skidoo]

11:56 AM on 07/16/2012

Too bad for Romney, most of the chatter about him is people wondering why he won't just come clean and quit whining.

[isitjustmeamerica]

11:43 AM on 07/16/2012

Vote in November and let your voices heard.

Obama 2012.

[Poppy Potts]

06:47 PM on 07/18/2012

you voted him in we are voting him out. LOL