Economic Gains, Questions on Romney Boost Obama's Prospects for November

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/economic-gains-questions-romney-boost-obamas-prospects-november-050107581--abc-news.html

Mitt Romney has solidified his position for the Republican nomination but lost ground in the main event, with improved economic indicators and questions about Romney's wealth and taxes lifting Barack Obama to a head-to-head advantage for the first time this cycle.

Fifty percent of Americans in this new ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of Obama's job performance, the most since spring. Fifty percent say he deserves re-election, better than Bill Clinton at the start of his re-election year and as good as George W. Bush a month before he won a second term. And Obama now leads Romney among registered voters by a slight 51-45 percent, the first time either has cracked 50 percent in a series of matchups since spring.

Two chief factors are at play. One is the economy's gradual but unmistakable improvement, marked by the newly reported January unemployment rate of 8.3 percent, the lowest since a month after Obama took office. The president's approval rating on handling the economy, while just 44 percent, is its best in 13 months.

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[Robbins]

1. Obama

the improving economic numbers are starting to shsow their effects.Obama's approvol is going up.And polls are showing a 5 or 6 point
lead for Obama over Romney.

The fact we now have polls saying public thinks he deserves reelection and the fact Democrats and Independents think he will
win Is good signs.Plus more Republicans think he will win than Democrats think he will lose.

[Rozlee]

2. Obama hasn't even begun to fight.

I made a post on the article's comment section about Romney's stance on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Romney not only supports Paul Ryan's stance on vouchers for Medicare, he goes beyond them. He's for cutting back severely on Medicaid, which would throw scores of residents in nursing homes out on the street or force their families to pay out of pocket for their care. What if someone needed a hip replacement on a voucherized program where they got only a tenth or twentieth of the $90,000 tab paid for it? This alone would sink Romney with a whole lot of voters. Obama needs to concentrate on this argument a whole lot.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. The writer of the article characterized the spread between Obama and Mittens as "slight"?

Slight? Really?

[gregtownsand]

4. Top Republicans looked like they had a turd in their mouths.

WHen asked about the jobs report. LOL

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Panic

Romeny is an extraordinarily weak candidate for President, look for this trend to increase and Republicans to start to panic by summer.