(Community Matters) An important piece in Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish
Fox’s latest poll shows Obama at 50 percent approval – which makes him very hard to beat if he’s an incumbent. Nate Cohn examines the Fox poll internals, and it looks worse:
While Romney argues that Obama has failed on the economy, the Fox polls suggests that most voters don’t quite see it that way. Just 36 percent of voters give Obama a D or an F on the economy, compared to 38 percent of voters who give him an A or a B. There are a lot of voters with a decidedly mixed view, including 14 percent who give him a “C” and 11 percent who give him an “incomplete,” as the president did himself….
50 percent of likely voters say that if Obama is elected, they would feel that “the country’s improving and I look forward to another 4 years” compared to 43 percent who would say “the country’s going down the drain and I’m dreading what is going to happen next.” While 49 percent of voters say the country is worse off than it was four years ago, that’s not enough to outweigh the other numbers.
On the Reagan myth . . . that Reagan surged from behind:
[Reagan was never behind. . . ] As Nate Cohn notes, if this is Romney’s view of the race, he’s gonna lose. He and his party are zombie Reaganites living in a different time with different challenges. And they have no idea what to do. Or how talented a campaigner their opponent is.
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