"Swing-State Numbers Look Good for Obama" at PBS Newshour

[applegrove]

Swing-State Numbers Look Good for Obama

By: Terence Burlij and Katelyn Polantz at PBS Newshour

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/08/swing-state-numbers-look-good-for-obama.html

"SNIP...............................

Neither candidate inspired much confidence when asked whether his economic policies would help a respondent's personal financial situation, hurt it or not make a difference.

Thirty-eight percent of those polled in Florida said Mr. Obama's policies would hurt their situation, while 36 percent said they would make no difference. Just 23 percent said they'd help. Those marks were reflected in the Ohio and Pennsylvania surveys.

While Romney has cited his business background as giving him a better understanding of how to lead on the economy, potential voters in those three battlegrounds do not believe his economic proposals will do them much better. In Ohio and Pennsylvania, more potential voters said Romney's policies would hurt or make no difference than help.

The one exception was Florida, where 31 percent said Romney's economic plans would help, 30 percent said they'd hurt and 34 percent said they'd make no difference to their personal finances.
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[Drunken Irishman]

1. Understatement.

[cheezmaka]

2. UNFORTUNATLEY for Mitt Romney

he can't present himself as a candidate who cares about the common people. He has a very hard time doing so and the GOP is very frustrated with it...