Gallup's 7 day tracker still has Romney up by 6 points. There may well be a bit of statistical noise, here, but this would seem to indicate the Prez didn't do so decently in the 2nd debate as people have assumed.
Or does this just mean that the suddenly moderate image Mitt Romney has presented in the first two debates has continued to pay off, despite somewhat more vigorous opposition from the president in the second debate? The policy image Romney has created over the last few weeks, often by innuendo rather than concrete promise, has been much farther to the left than anything previous. Thoughts?
Romney was able to win (and actually do a relatively ok job) in Massachusetts by being very moderate. Frankly, he doesn't need to be hard-core conservative to get the vote of ultra right-wingers, since they will vote for Anybody Who Isn't Obama, so moderate and reasonable-sounding is his best strategy.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I could just be missing something, it's hard to see out of this binder.