Pew: Obama has big lead; Romney favorability drops (D +19)

Politico ^ | 08/02/2012 | EMILY SCHULTHEIS

[nhwingut]

New polling data out from Pew Research Center finds President Obama with a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney nationally:

Currently, 51% say they support Obama or lean toward him, while 41% support or lean toward Romney. This is largely unchanged from earlier in July and consistent with polling over the course of this year. Across eight Pew Research Center surveys since January, Obama has led Romney by between four and 12 percentage points.

Obama holds only a four-point edge (48% to 44%) across 12 of this year’s key battleground states. While the data does not allow a state-by-state analysis, the overall balance of support in these closely contested states has remained level in recent months, with Obama slightly ahead, but neither candidate holding a significant advantage.

[kearnyirish2]

“He’s the weakest candidate we could have put up.”

Fortunately he isn’t as weak as THEIR candidate; how does he overcome HIS unfavorables?

All Obama can say is, “He’s rich!” (though Obama now is, too); all his surrogates can say is “He’s white!” (though Obama is partially, too). I don’t think anything thrown out there will distract from the fact that our economy is absolutely horrible; in the end, people vote with their wallets, and that will crush Obama. He will try to make it about everything else under the sun, but Americans are tired (and terrified) of working their arses off just to buy groceries.

All post-2008 elections (including 3 in 2009, in states carried by Obama a year earlier - NJ, MA, VA) indicate he wil not overcome “buyers’ remorse”.

[gov_bean_ counter]

thanks.