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Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 08:14 PM Sep 2012

75% of people don't even identify with Rmoney.

http://news.yahoo.com/esquire-yahoo-news-poll-americans-little-common-with-romney.html

Three in four Americans feel they have little or nothing in common with Mitt Romney, while nearly 60 percent feel the same way about President Barack Obama, according to an Esquire/Yahoo! News poll.

In the wake of Romney's remarks dismissing nearly half of Americans as self-identified victims who are dependent on government—videotaped at a donor event earlier this year and posted online this week by Mother Jones magazine—these new numbers are more bad news for a candidate struggling to connect with ordinary Americans. The margin of error for the survey, conducted shortly after the two national political conventions, is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Further complicating the Republican ticket's image problem is that a Romney presidency is viewed as significantly more beneficial to wealthy Americans than a second Obama term would be. Sixty-two percent of those surveyed said the wealthy would be better off under Romney than Obama. That split reverses when Americans were asked who would benefit the poor: 57 percent say Obama, 30 percent say Romney.

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75% of people don't even identify with Rmoney. (Original Post) Zalatix Sep 2012 OP
would you? madrchsod Sep 2012 #1
Hell no! Let's hope this translates to a loss for him on election day. Zalatix Sep 2012 #2
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