The latest Pew poll showing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney ahead of President Obama among likely voters has the potential to rapidly re-orient conventional wisdom about the challenger’s chances of winning. …
While the topline numbers in the Pew survey are sexy — politically speaking, of course — and will draw lots (and lots) of headlines, there’s lots of other interesting data contained within the guts of the survey. We dug through it and pulled out eight takeaways. [cont.]
Chris Cillizza, Washington Post