Tag: Campaign 2012

Romney’s Poll Problems, Cont’d – Undecideds’ Favorable Opinion of Him Polls in the Teens

Jon Ponder

graph-romney-unfav-among-undecidedNate Cohn at TNR:

[Recent] polling from Pew Research and NBC/WSJ suggests that Romney has a real problem with the undecided voters he’s counting on to put him over the top. Approximately half of undecided voters have an unfavorable impression of Romney, while his favorability ratings are mired in the teens. That’s an average net-favorable rating of -33, which is all the more remarkable considering that about one-third of voters didn’t offer an opinion of Romney at all. Put differently, Romney is disliked by an astonishing 75 percent of undecided voters who have formulated an opinion of the Republican nominee…

Between some portion of undecided voters staying home, an inevitable subset voting for Obama, and Romney’s high unfavorable ratings, a flood of undecided voters flocking to Romney seems unlikely—at least if the election were held today.

Jobs Report Brings Terrible News – for Congressional Republicans’ Strategy of Obstructing the Recovery

Jon Ponder

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The Republican strategy of obstructing the recovery from the 2008 financial collapse caused by their anti-regulatory policies during the Bush-Cheney administration has been surprisingly effective over the past three years. However, the June jobs report released today suggests they will have to redouble their efforts to keep employment low and foreclosures up among their constituents back home if they are going to achieve their stated “single most important” goal of making Barack Obama a one-term president:

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Pew Poll Gives Obama a 10 Point Lead – Finds Rising Dislike of Romney among Voters

Jon Ponder

graph-pew-romney-favoribilityPew Research Center for the People & the Press:

Obama continues to hold a sizable lead over Romney in the election contest. Currently, 51 percent say they support Obama or lean toward him, while 41 percent support or lean toward Romney. This is largely unchanged from earlier in July and consistent with polling over the course of this year. Across eight Pew Research Center surveys since January, Obama has led Romney by between four and 12 percentage points.

And:

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Can Romney Win the Presidency with Stubbornly High Unfavorable Ratings? Aggregate Polling Shows His Unfavorable Rating Is Now Slightly above 50%

Jon Ponder

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The news about Mitt’s favorable ratings does not get better. Andrew Sullivan posted the chart above, which shows that Romney’s aggregate unfavorable rating has risen to a notch above 50 percent. (The big chart shows the trends “smoothed out.” The inset shows the actual data points over time.) Here is the source of the data.

Sullivan wonders if these numbers prove the theory that the more voters get to know Romney, the more they dislike him. If that is so, then the results from the CBS News/New York Times/Quinnipiac poll of likely voters in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio indicate that Romney has next to no chance to improve his standing with voters before November.

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Romney Press Secretary to Traveling Press Corps in Poland: ‘Kiss My Ass,’ ‘Shove It’

Jon Ponder

The gaffes just keep on coming from the Romney campaign team — from campaign honcho Eric Ferhnstrom’s “Etch-A-Sketch” snafu in May to Romney’s advisers anonymous telling a British reporter Romney’s team is “part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage” (read: “white”) unlike Pres. Obama (even though Obama’s father was a British citizen and Romney’s father was born in Mexico) to Romney’s lecturing the London Olympics on security while expressing doubts about the enthusiasm of the British people for the games — to this latest incident involving Romney press secretary Rick Gorka that occurred in Poland yesterday:

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Sully: The Persistent Oddness of Mitt Romney

Jon Ponder

WTF? If your spouse’s horse were in an Olympic contest, would you not even watch? This is either a fib, designed to insulate him from whatever minimal fallout there is from owning a dressage horse; or it’s true and he’s just unlike other human beings. I mean, Obama makes sure he sees his daughters’ high school sports games. But Romney won’t even watch his wife’s horse at the Olympics?

– Andrew Sullivan at The Dish, reacting Mitt Romney telling a reporter that, even though he is in London for the Games, he will not watch his wife’s horse-dancing competition. “I have to tell you,” Romney said, “This is Ann’s sport. I’m not even sure which day the sport goes on. She will get the chance to see it, I will not be watching the event. I hope her horse does well.”

Jon Stewart on GOP Lies about Obama’s ‘Build It’ Comment: ‘You Really Wanna Hang Your Entire Campaign on a Willful, Out of Context Misunderstanding?’

Jon Ponder

AtlanticWire:

Jon Stewart delves into the debate surrounding President Barack Obama’s “you didn’t build that” line last night on The Daily Show. Or rather, he delved into the lack of need for debate around Obama’s poorly worded assertion that businesses received government help to succeed. “You really wanna hang your entire campaign on a willful, out of context misunderstanding?” he asked the Mitt Romney campaign.

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