Once a week, members of Mitt Romney’s political department gather in the campaign’s Boston headquarters and pretend that they are in Barack Obama’s war room. … “The Obama team had the luxury of knowing exactly what they’d be doing on July 1, 2012 because they’ve been planning for six years—definitely […] Read more »
Generation X and the Presidential Election
While many are asking whom crucial GenX voters will support in the November presidential election, the more important question may be whether they plan to vote at all. Shoshana Parker of GfK uses findings from the latest AP-GfK polling to explore GenX’s views and seemingly ambivalent feelings about politics. GfK Read more »
Red Alert
… Voters seem perfectly open to the option of firing the president, but the Obama camp has given voters—specifically in swing states where wall-to-wall advertising is running—reason to hesitate about hiring Romney. Puzzlingly, the Romney campaign has offered very little to build up its candidate as a real human being, […] Read more »
Serious Attack on Ryan Budget Takes Toll on Mitt Romney
The most recent survey and focus groups by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps reveal deep opposition to the Ryan budget – and its potential to damage Mitt Romney’s candidacy if he embraces it in the coming campaign. [cont.] Democracy Corps Read more »
Raising Taxes on Rich Seen as Good for Economy, Fairness
By two-to-one (44% to 22%), the public says that raising taxes on incomes above $250,00o would help the economy rather than hurt it, while 24% say this would not make a difference. Moreover, an identical percentage (44%) says a tax increase on higher incomes would make the tax system more […] Read more »
Is Romney’s business experience still an asset?
… Romney’s business record has been mauled by an ad blitz criticizing his work at Bain Capital and last week’s barbs surrounding when he actually left the firm. Polls indicate that Romney’s business experience was widely seen as a positive attribute early this year, but has taken a hit in […] Read more »