WHEN EVEN Rasmussen has Obama tied with Romney on job creation, given the margin of error, you understand why Republicans are freaking out: Obama 47% – Romney 45%.
How in the world did Mitt Romney allow this to develop?
Following another dismal jobs report, voters overwhelmingly rate job creation as important to their vote but are almost evenly divided when it comes to which presidential candidate they trust more on the issue.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 95% of Likely U.S. Voters rate the issue of job creation as important to how they will vote in November. That includes 69% who consider it Very Important.
The only time Rasmussen numbers are posted around here, which tilt Republican, is when the numbers reveal something unexpected, as they do today.
Now, this may not last, but even after the Republican convention, Obama remains competitive with Romney on jobs. That’s remarkable.
Note to Democrats: the Bain attacks have worked.
Couple of thing Taylor! “Note to Democrats: the Bain attacks have worked?” I think you mean, Note to Obama’s democratic detractors: The Bain attacks worked! Further more, dismal is a word I would use if we were losing jobs by the hundreds of thousands like we were when Obama walked into the WH. 103K is nothing to crow about but gaining is much better than losing. As for those Rasmussen numbers it would seem the American public isn’t as stupid as Romney and the rest of the GOP seems to think. Judging from what I am seeing on the web it would seem that they are more than aware that minus the GOP blockade going in Congress the jobs picture would look far better than it does right now!
Actually, no.
Pres. Bill Clinton was against the Bain attacks, and he’s now Obama’s “explainer in chief.”
Romney says he’ll create 12 million jobs. But he doesn’t tell us how. This I think rings very hollow in American ears. Republicans never put their money where their mouths are.
Oh no Jane,
Romney put all sorts of money out; he drowned every one of his light-weight opponents in a flood of money. He is attempting to drown out Obama with money too. What we are seeing is the end game of what Nixon started in 1968 and was sketched out in “The Selling Of The President.” It is the dictum of “don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle” run to its illogical conclusion. The steak is gone, and Romney has no real sizzle,so there you are– Romney is in the absurd position of botching an easy slam dunk.
Of course the Bain ads worked, Democrats acting like Democrats works. The message and priorities of Occupy Wall Street still exist. The movement still exists. OWS still resonates. Mitt’s actual record as a corporate raider was always going to be a problem.
I agree that this Rasmussen poll is very bad news for Team Magic Underwear. Mitt should own job creation; it should be Romney’s killer app. But Mitt is struggling just to stay even with Obama on the issue. Now that the Big Dog has laid down the Democratic talking points as only he can, I can see the Democrats owning job creation.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if Romney does loose (and that outcome looks more likely as the misfeasance of his campaign becomes more manifest) that there will be revolt in the GOP that makes the TEA Party uprising look like a minor unpleasantness. I strongly suggest you stock up on popcorn Taylor; that fight is going to be a humdinger.
Romney is nothing but a rich empty suit. He has shown us nothing but more tax breaks, and you all will just have to wait until after the election to see how I will pull the rabbit out of the hat. The voting public is not going to buy a pig in a poke. How can anyone vote for someone when you don’t have a clue what he will do? He is very quickly becoming a joke, that has nothing to show us but the empty suit.