Doug Schoen | Mitt’s Looking Like a Sure Loser in the Fall

Posted on March 30 2012 – 4:36 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady

In the recently released nationwide ABC News/Washington Post poll a mere 34 percent of Americans  say they have a favorable opinion of Mr. Romney– a record low for any leading  presidential candidate in a primary season in an ABC News/Washington Post survey  data since 1984.

Meanwhile half of voters (50%) say they have an  unfavorable impression of the former governor.

In most elections that I have been involved with, it  certainly is the case that candidates whose negative ratings are over 50% tend  to lose.

Put bluntly, it is very difficult, if not  impossible, for a presidential candidate to win an election with an overall  negative rating of 50% when facing an incumbent whose favorability is above  fifty percent. And President Obama’s  favorability rating in the Washington Post/ABC News Poll is almost as high as  President Bill  Clinton’s 56 percent favorability in June 1996.

Moreover, new state data out from Quinnipiac shows  President Obama leading former Governor Romney by 7 points in Florida, 6 points  in Ohio, and 3 points in Pennsylvania– all suggesting that key swing states  have moved in the direction of the incumbent president.

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