Romney’s negative ratings soaring among independents

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Romney’s negative ratings soaring among independents

By Greg Sargent

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I’ve got a new partisan breakdown of some numbers from the new NBC/WSJ poll, and here’s the verdict: Romney’s unfavorability rating among independents has spiked 20 points in the last two months.

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The office of pollster Peter Hart, who helped do the survey, sends over the numbers among independents. While Romney’s positive numbers among them have been roughly stable, at just over 20 percent, here is the change among independents in the past few months:

In November, Romney was rated somewhat or very negatively by 22 percent of independents.

In December, Romney was rated somewhat or very negatively by 29 percent of independents.

And in the new poll, Romney was rated somewhat or very negatively by 42 percent of independents — 20 points higher than two months ago.

Also: In November, Romney was beating Obama 47-34 among those voters. Now the numbers are upside down: Obama is beating Romney 44-36.

(A recent Post/ABC News poll also found Romney’s negative rating among independent had jumped to 51 percent.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romneys-negative-ratings-soaring-among-independents/2012/01/27/gIQAeVB1VQ_blog.html

[gateley]

1. I like this poll! nt

[emulatorloo]

2. Doesn't surprise me. The More you learn about Romney, the more you despise him.

[yellowcanine]

4. I think that is it.

[customerserviceguy]

3. We need the angry little attack muffin working for us all the way to the convention

Really, it's started to look better than screwing with Republicons by voting for Ron Paul in the primaries. Just as long as Noot doesn't get too many delegates.

[Honeycombe8]

5. Interesting. nt

[tallahasseedem]

6. And we need to keep reminding them...

that Romney is not the candidate for them until November.