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Romney is so unelectable. All this 15% tax and all his tax shelters will just totally make him even more un-relatable to the masses.
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Poll: Obama swamps Romney among youth, independent, Latino voters
As prominent Tea Partiers desperately urge Republican lawmakers and Republican presidential primary voters to move further to the right, President Obama is racing ahead among independents. Public Policy Polling, delivering results today from its first national poll (pdf), reports that Obama leads GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney by a solid five points and that he leads Romney by a whopping 41-point spread among moderate voters.
Writing at the PPP website, Director Tom Jensen notes the way the President seems to be regaining strong support among demographics key to his big victory in 2008.
âOne thing that really stands out in this poll is the extent to which Obama has claimed the middle. Heâs up 68-27 on Romney with moderates. He also leads by 20 points with voters under 45, a group thereâs been some concern about slippage with, and he has a 66-30 advantage with Hispanics.â
Thatâs big news in swing-state Colorado, where nearly a third of voters are independents, where the growing Latino population exerts increasing political influence and where youth voters turned out in record numbers to vote for Obama last election.
Jensen writes that the caustic Republican primary, which has seen the former Massachusetts Governor run way to the right of past positions on flashpoint issues such as abortion and immigration, has cost Romney deeply among independent voters.
âOver the last month Romneyâs seen his negatives with independents rise from 46% to 54%, suggesting that the things he has to say and do to win the Republican nomination arenât necessarily helping him for the general. Obamaâs turned what was a 45-36 deficit with independents a month ago into a 51-41 advantage.â
