The nation’s smallest and most remote places are providing Mitt Romney’s biggest margins in battleground states as the 2012 presidential race enters its final weeks. In fact, rural counties are keeping Romney competitive in the states that are now up for grabs. That’s what a new bipartisan survey indicates. The […] Read more »
What’s Wrong With Pennsylvania?
On June 30, 2011, an enthusiastic Mitt Romney arrived here in the heart of the Lehigh Valley determined to make Pennsylvania a presidential battleground state. … A key assumption underpinned Romney’s appearance in Allentown — that the working class whites who once dominated this great industrial center would back the […] Read more »
Undecided voters: Who are they and how much do they matter?
Undecided voters are few, angry, and not particularly focused on the campaign, according to members of a roundtable discussion with CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley on “State of the Union.” [cont.] CNN Read more »
Can Romney replicate Bush’s 2004 path to victory? It looks dicey.
There’s little question that come Nov. 6 President Obama won’t equal the 365 electoral votes that the then-candidate Obama won in the 2008 election. But the bigger and more important question when it comes to the electoral college conversation is whether former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) can come close […] Read more »
Romney team is both defiant and realistic
After one of their worst weeks of the general election campaign, Mitt Romney and his advisers are scrambling to refocus their message and make up ground lost to President Obama in several battleground states. … Romney advisers now interpret the state of the race from two somewhat contradictory perspectives. On […] Read more »
Half of Americans in Poverty Are Politically Independent
Americans who are in poverty are more likely than those who are not in poverty to identify themselves as political independents — 50% vs. 40%. … The majority of Americans in poverty approved of President Barack Obama in 2011, compared with 45% approval among those not in poverty. But those […] Read more »