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Rasmussen: Bain attacks not working
Hot Air ^ | MAY 21, 2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 05/22/2012 11:06:37 AM PDT by RobinMasters

Will the strategy of highlighting Mitt Romney’s track record at Bain Capital do more to damage the Republican nominee, or Barack Obama? A poll released yesterday by Rasmussen suggests that it might do more damage to Obama’s re-election efforts than it will to his challenger. Only 33% of a sample of 1,000 likely voters say that Romney’s record at Bain was a reason to vote against him, while 44% believe it boosts his candidacy:

Democrats have begun criticizing Mitt Romney’s business record, but a plurality of voters view the Republican’s business past as a positive.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that Romney’s track record in business is primarily a reason to vote for him. Thirty-three percent (33%) see his business career as chiefly a reason to vote against him. Twenty-two percent (22%) are undecided.

It may also tend to boost Romney’s credibility on the overall economy while pointing to Obama’s deficiencies:

Fifty-five percent (55%) voters believe venture capital companies are better at creating jobs than government programs are. Only 26% see government programs as better job creators. Nineteen percent (19%) are not sure. That’s essentially unchanged from January.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012election; baincapital; election2012; kenyanbornmuzzie; mittromney

1 posted on 05/22/2012 11:06:44 AM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

Mr. Obama and his lot really CAN’T count after all.

Well, when one has no viable record upon which to run, one must attack, attack, attack!

-Rex


2 posted on 05/22/2012 11:13:57 AM PDT by RexBeach (Mr. Obama Can't Count.)
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To: RobinMasters

Never fear, the “Drive-By-Media” has a new target....Ann Romney’s horses.


3 posted on 05/22/2012 11:19:03 AM PDT by radioone
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To: radioone

bawahhhhhhh!!!! good one.. AR’s horses indeed.


4 posted on 05/22/2012 11:23:28 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: RobinMasters
Of course it's not working because the audience is not a campus. The aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky radicals (spoiled brats) and their bratty ideological issue in the White House and MSM are locked into a world of the only thing they have ever known: each other and campus activism.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that Romney’s track record in business is primarily a reason to vote for him. Thirty-three percent (33%) see his business career as chiefly a reason to vote against him.

But.. but it should be almost 100 percent for the people!

5 posted on 05/22/2012 11:25:25 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: RobinMasters

—Only 33% of a sample of 1,000 likely voters say that Romney’s record at Bain was a reason to vote against him—

And they are probably folks in the tank for Obama anyway...


6 posted on 05/22/2012 11:38:25 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: RobinMasters

Poor Obama!...He’s pissing in the wind on all fronts!


7 posted on 05/22/2012 11:39:05 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: RobinMasters

One word: landslide!


8 posted on 05/22/2012 11:40:50 AM PDT by TheRhinelander
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To: RobinMasters
Well, they'll have to back to the White Hispanic or Romney as the Demon Barber of Christopher Street again.

Maybe they can unleash a new high school shooter to change the subject. Or something gayish.

Or blame Bush for something!

9 posted on 05/22/2012 11:45:47 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: RobinMasters
The Democrat margin of cheating is about 3%.

If they are within 3%, they can manufacture the votes they need to win.

Our job is to make sure the margin of victory is at least 10%.

10 posted on 05/22/2012 12:20:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: RobinMasters

Once again, Lucy pulls away the football at the last minute and Charlie “Obama” Brown lands flat on his back, looking up at the stars!


11 posted on 05/22/2012 1:20:55 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
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To: RobinMasters

For those of us not subjecting ourselves to the MSM et al: what’s the story about Romney & Bain?


12 posted on 05/22/2012 1:23:18 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: RobinMasters
I expect Romney to issue an ad embracing Bain and highlighting those deals that resulted in increased jobs and prosperity. The last thing he should do now is back away from his actual record there. It's just so much easier to tell the truth than to manufacture lies.
13 posted on 05/22/2012 3:07:53 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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14 posted on 05/22/2012 3:29:47 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: hinckley buzzard

He already has. They’re running in battleground states and on the interwebs. Pretty powerful.


15 posted on 05/22/2012 3:36:08 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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