Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Politico Poll: Romney Leads on Almost Every Issue, But...

 

So let me get this straight: Mitt Romney leads among independents, leads with middle-class households by double digits, leads with likely voters on six of seven issues (including large advantages on jobs, spending and the economy), and holds an eight-point edge with the bellwether Catholic demo -- yet he trails overall by three points?  Maybe it's a terrible partisan split, you might think.  Not so.  It's D+3, which is completely reasonable.  These numbers don't quite add up, but they do suggest that while the incumbent is in real trouble on substance, his challenger's style-points struggles are real.  To that end, one possible explanatory factor is Romney taking a hit on personal favorability, a trend we also spotted in the battlegrounds poll earlier today.  From the Politico numbers:

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