imreallyperplexed
Council Member
The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll has - what seems to be - troubling news for Romney. They did polls on Romney's favorability ratings and Obama's favorability ratings.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politic...-negatively-obama-outpaces-him-in-popularity/
Currently, Romney has a 34% favorable rating and a 50% unfavorable rating. Obama has a 53% favorable rating and a 43% unfavorable rating. Taken as a single snapshot, this not be too worrisome for Romney. However, his unfavorables have been going up dramatically since the fall of 2011 (when his unfavorables were about 20%). (To Romney's credit, Romney's unfavorables are no worse than Gingrich or Santorum which I guess would make him more electable.) Obama's favorables on the other hand have had a modest trend upward.
Of course, trends can always be reversed and there is a long time to go. But it is significant that Romney's unfavorables have zoomed without the Obama team having to do much of anything. He really has kind of dug his own hole. It will be interesting to see how things look in June or July.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politic...-negatively-obama-outpaces-him-in-popularity/
Currently, Romney has a 34% favorable rating and a 50% unfavorable rating. Obama has a 53% favorable rating and a 43% unfavorable rating. Taken as a single snapshot, this not be too worrisome for Romney. However, his unfavorables have been going up dramatically since the fall of 2011 (when his unfavorables were about 20%). (To Romney's credit, Romney's unfavorables are no worse than Gingrich or Santorum which I guess would make him more electable.) Obama's favorables on the other hand have had a modest trend upward.
Of course, trends can always be reversed and there is a long time to go. But it is significant that Romney's unfavorables have zoomed without the Obama team having to do much of anything. He really has kind of dug his own hole. It will be interesting to see how things look in June or July.
