… Even as other pollsters — Gallup, Fox News, CBS News/New York Times, Washington Post/ABC News — have shown the presidential race tilting toward President Obama in recent days, Romney aides and allied Republicans proudly tout the newest Rasmussen numbers, which show their guy actually holding a very small lead: 47 percent to 45 percent. …
Thus, it has played a major role in the Romney team’s push-back against the emerging conventional wisdom that their campaign is struggling and consumed by infighting. [cont.]
Aaron Blake, Washington Post