Day: August 2, 2012

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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Scaling the Heights of Hyperbolic Hyperbole!

Buck Banks

I know in your mind you can think of times when America was attacked. One is December 7th, that’s Pearl Harbor day. The other is September 11th, and that’s the day of the terrorist attack. I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates.

— Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), likening the implementation of a new mandate that insurers offer coverage for contraceptive services to Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United States, NBC News reports.

Idiot Voters Don’t Know (or Care) What a Super PAC Is

Buck Banks

4 in 10

Number of respondents in a new Washington Post-Pew Research poll who, when prompted with four choices as to what a super PAC actually was, said it was “a group able to accept unlimited political donations.” The poll found that three-quarters of Americans have either heard “a little” (36%) or “nothing at all” (39%) about “increased spending in this year’s presidential election by outside groups not associated with the candidates or campaigns.”

Reid Repeats Allegation That Romney Paid No Taxes for a Decade

Buck Banks

I am not basing this on some figment of my imagination. I have had a number of people tell me that.

— Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), repeating his story of a Bain Capital investor claiming Mitt Romney paid no taxes at all for 10 years, and broadening it in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and other reporters. When asked to identify his sources, Reid declined: “No, that’s the best you’re going to get from me. I don’t think the burden should be on me. The burden should be on him. He’s the one I’ve alleged has not paid any taxes. Why didn’t he release his tax returns?”