They make up only a sliver of the electorate, roughly 4 to 7 percent. We’re talking 1 million to 2 million people at the most, in just a handful of critical states. They tend to be younger, female, and clueless about politics. They are the undecided. Better yet, they could […] Read more »
Negative Talk About Romney Still Eclipses Positive Chat
Paul Ryan needs to provide a positive jolt to Mitt Romney’s campaign: voters continue to bad-mouth the presumptive Republican nominee, according to National Journal’s latest Conversation Nation poll. [cont.] Alex Roarty, National Journal Read more »
Why 90 million Americans won’t vote in November
… A nationwide USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll of people who are eligible to vote but aren’t likely to do so finds that these stay-at-home Americans back Obama’s re-election over Republican Mitt Romney by more than 2-1. Two-thirds of them say they are registered to vote. Eight in 10 say the […] Read more »
Romney Sees No Immediate Bounce From Ryan V.P. Pick
Mitt Romney’s standing in the presidential election campaign has not changed materially in the immediate days after his announcement of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate. The first four days of Gallup Daily tracking after Romney’s announcement show 47% of registered voters saying they would vote for […] Read more »
The Battleground 2012: Democratic Strategic Analysis
From the start, President Barack Obama and the Democrats have framed this election as a choice between two competing visions, and—with some assistance from Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney—their efforts have struck a resonant chord with the electorate. Not only does Obama lead Romney in the race for President—a dramatic […] Read more »
Romney Lost the American Jewish Vote by Picking Paul Ryan
… So what do American Jews vote on? The economy, of course. According to the AJC poll, it registered almost five times the number of first-place votes as did Israel. Second, with more than three times the number, was health care. … Jews are also big fans of government spending. […] Read more »