Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, now the front-runner for the GOP nomination, may wish he'd chosen different words during an interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien, as ABC News reports , when explaining why he was running for president.
"I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it," he said, adding that he felt the same about the very rich who were "doing just fine." His focus would be on the "90, 95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling and I'll continue to take that message across the nation." His initial comment drew fire and may have taken away from a poll boost over former Speaker Newt Gingrich in Florida, as the AP reports .
Current polling numbers show a tight potential race against President Obama, one in which gaffes may or may not affect tomorrow's polls. Here's a look a the latest polling numbers in the 2012 presidential elections.
4: President Barack Obama holds a small lead against Romney in a Rasmussen Reports poll released on Wednesday. He holds 47 percent against Romney's 43 percent, amounting to a 4 point lead. In a match versus Gingrich, Obama has a solid lead, 50 percent to 38 percent among likely voters. However, the poll has a margin of error plus or minus 3 percentage points.
-12: The president's approval index is slightly improved, rated at -12. He had peaked at -20 in mid-January, but has gone down a few points as can be seen on Rasmussen's Approval Index History .
50: Obama had better than 50 percent approval in 10 states and Washington D.C. ruing 2011, according to Gallup, numbers that could bear out probable wins during his campaign. The top ten could hardly be called battleground states, though it does include Mitt Romney's home state of Massachusetts at 55.5 percent. Obama's home state of Illinois, the state of his birth Hawaii, and California were the only non-Northeastern states in the list.
4: Gallup's election 2012 tracking for January 27 to 31 shows Romney up by 4 points at 31 percent, with Gingrich trailing at 26 percent, down 2 points. Santorum held 16 percent and was down a point while Paul was at 11 percent, down 2 points. In a trial heat, Obama and Romney were tied at 48 percent, while Obama holds a 12 point lead over Gingrich, 53 to 41 percent. Gingrich had dropped 7 points in that theoretical head-to-head.
Shawn Humphrey is a former contributor to The Flint Journal and lives near Washington D.C. in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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