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SternSkipper -> Romney Needs A Campaign RESET (3/5/2012 1:42:53 PM)
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Dipping Numbers ... Time to tell the liberals "it's just a 'fad'".... Or will it be a 'temporary trend' this time... or maybe even "the numbers are cooked....
BTW - I am hearing there is a possibility that Massachusetts will slap one of it's famous rejected stickers on the window of the Romney Campaign bus via the polls ... now how is it going to sound in the general when the ONLY place the guy has governed has rejected his candidacy?
Romney hoping for a ‘reset’ among voters, after a long and heated primary
CANTON, Ohio—Mitt Romney is spending his final day before Super Tuesday traveling through eastern Ohio, a region that has been especially hard hit by job losses and housing foreclosures.
Romney aides have long argued that this kind of political landscape favors their candidate in a general election matchup against President Barack Obama. But that was before Romney got caught up in a tougher than expected Republican primary that has left all the candidates bruised and battered. And the race isn't over yet.
In recent weeks, as negative ads have dominated the airwaves, Romney's unfavorable numbers have been slowly picking up. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that just 28 percent of likely general election voters view him favorably, while 39 percent view him unfavorably. That's a 3 point hike since January. Among independent voters, who are likely to determine the outcome of November's election, Romney's numbers are even more dismal, as just 22 percent view the former Massachusetts governor favorably.
According to the NBC/WSJ poll, at this stage in the game, Romney's image is worse than past Republican nominees, including John McCain, whose favorable rating was at 47 percent in March 2008. George W. Bush had a 43 percent approval in 2000 and Bob Dole was at 35 percent favorable in March 1996.
At the same time, Romney, who once held a slight lead over Obama in the polls, has seen this advantage slip away. According to the NBC/WSJ poll, Obama now leads Romney by 6 points, 50 percent to 44 percent.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-hoping-reset-among-voters-long-heated-primary-162545413.html
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