Just before the beginning of the Republican National Convention in Tampa presidential candidate Mitt Romney continues to overwhelmingly lose the Latino vote and has low levels of favorability among the majority of the Latino electorate. The first weekly tracking poll of Latino registered voters by Latino Decisions and impreMedia reveals […] Read more »
Making The Election About Race
The Republican ticket is flooding the airwaves with commercials that develop two themes designed to turn the presidential contest into a racially freighted resource competition pitting middle class white voters against the minority poor. … The importance to the Romney-Ryan ticket of two overlapping constituencies — whites without college degrees […] Read more »
Obama, Romney neck-and-neck ahead of party conventions
The Republican National Convention opens this week with President Obama and presumptive nominee Mitt Romney running evenly, with voters more focused on Obama’s handling of the nation’s flagging economy than on some issues dominating the political debate in recent weeks. … The findings continue a months-long pattern, with neither the […] Read more »
Which candidate is better on the issues?
President Barack Obama has a big advantage over Mitt Romney on social issues and a smaller margin on foreign policy, but according to a new national survey the Republican challenger has the edge on the economy, issue number one with American voters. [cont.] CNN Read more »
Romney pollster hopes for image boost from confab
Mitt Romney’s pollster said Sunday he is pleased with the campaign’s standing going into the Republican National Convention and hopes the three-day event will boost the public’s comfort with Romney as well as his poll numbers. Despite a summer of blistering ads from the Obama campaign and their allies, pollster […] Read more »
Which candidate cares more about you?
A new national survey illustrates the challenge Mitt Romney faces at the Republican convention as the GOP presidential challenger gets re-introduced to the American public. While a CNN/ORC International poll indicates the race for the White House between Romney and President Barack Obama is in a dead heat among likely […] Read more »