Romney's "47 Percent" Remarks Damage His Image with Voters: Reuters/Ipsos Poll

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Source: Reuters

Romney's "47 percent" remarks damage his image with voters: Reuters/Ipsos poll

By Patricia Zengerle

Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:31pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's dismissal of almost half the U.S. electorate in a secretly recorded video has hurt his image, although it may not determine how people vote on November 6.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday showed that more than two in five registered voters, or 43 percent, viewed Romney less favorably after an excerpt of the video was shown to them online.

In the video, Romney portrayed Democratic President Barack Obama's supporters - which he said was 47 percent of the electorate - as people who live off government handouts and do not "care for their lives."

Nearly six in ten, or 59 percent, in the poll said they felt Romney unfairly dismissed almost half of Americans as victims in his remarks made to donors in May at a private event at a luxury home in Florida.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE88I1E920120919?irpc=932

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politics is a game.  plain and simple.

Obama should be getting pummeled with a 1-2 punch right now:  Economy + handling of libya.

However, the release of this video (note the timing, the day after the "let embassy attack happen" memo arrived) blunted all of that.

So now romney has to try to beat him back - using this 1998 video.  It's certainly not as potent as the May 2012 Romney video about THIS election.  ANd it certainly doesn't bring the topic back to embassy attack on american soil being allowed, or the economy.  Just more name calling and grainy video of socialist claims.  I dont think the series of old tapes hurt obama, will this one?  Doubt it.

Romney has to stop letting obama steer the game.