A majority of voters pick Mitt Romney as more “out of touch” than President Obama, according to a new poll released Wednesday, which shows the Democratic incumbent holding a 13-point lead over his GOP challenger.
The Bloomberg National Poll asked likely voters which candidate’s argument has been more convincing, as each campaign works to paint its rival as unaware of the plight of the “average American” in an election year dominated by the struggling economy.
According to the poll, 55 percent picked Romney over Obama (at 36 percent) when asked who is more “out of touch.” Similarly, about a third of voters questioned believed Romney was the best of the two at “understanding your problems and struggles.”
The poll puts the president in the lead nationally, with 53 percent saying they would vote for Obama if the election were today, compared to 40 for Romney. The poll’s findings show a stronger lead for Obama than other recent national polls indicate. The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows Obama with only a 2-point lead over Romney.
Obama’s base also shows greater enthusiasm than Romney’s, with 51 percent of Obama supporters describing their support as “very strong” compared to 35 percent of Romney’s supporters who would describe their support that way.
Polls continue to indicate that voters pick unemployment and jobs as the overall issue they are most concerned about in the election, and Bloomberg’s poll indicates Romney has room to make headway on those issues. Obama earned 48 percent when the survey asked which candidate would be best at “getting the economy going,” while Romney took 43 percent.
However, voters increasingly seem to think the economy is getting better, with a larger percentage of those surveyed indicating they are “better off” now than they were at the beginning of 2009, when Obama took office. The poll found 45 percent think they are better off in June 2012 compared to January 2009, a jump from 38 percent in the last Bloomberg poll that asked the question, in March 2012. But most are still “cautious” about expectations that the economy is improving, with 48 percent indicating “nothing is really happening” one way or the other right now, while 32 percent are hopeful and 19 fearful things are getting worse.
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They must have only polled democrats.
Polls issued before Labor Day should be required to have a disclaimer stating that except for politics junkies, no one cares about the election yet.
Though I hope Romney will win, It’s hard to get a president out of office. Thats why i think Obama will win
You always have to look at the details to see how the poll was conducted so here you go:
Caller: Are you a registered democrat?
Responder: NO!!
Caller: Goodbye, you don’t qualify.
Ring ring ring….
Responder: Hello.
Caller: Are you a uber socialist liberal democrat who loves OblameO?
Responder: Yes!! Yes we can!! Change change change!! Obama!! Obama!!!!
Caller: OK, I have some questions for you…..
I think anybody who thinks Romney stands a half a chance, could keep on dreaming! Incumbent presidents don’t generally lose elections. It takes a major war or international crisis to remove a incumbent president.
#5, then what removed Bush Sr?
It’s easy to see why some people think Romney is out of touch, when the media go out of their way to create that impression, such as MSNBC’s disgraceful lie two days about about Romney’s supposed “supermarket scanner moment” at a Wawa store. (The original “supermarket scanner moment” of Bush Sr was also a lie, but this lie was even more blatant.)