Romney
The Internal Polls That Made Mitt Romney Think He'd Win
It’s no secret that the Romney campaign believed it was headed for victory on Election Day. A handful of outlets have reported that Team Romney’s internal polling showed North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia moving safely into his column and that it put him ahead in a few other swing states. When combined with Ohio, where the internal polling had him close, Romney was on track to secure all the electoral votes he needed to win the White House. The confidence in these numbers was such that Romney even passed on writing a concession speech, at least before the crotchety assignment-desk known as “reality” finally weighed in.Less well-known, however, are the details of the polls that led Romney to believe he was so close to the presidency. Which other swing states did Romney believe he was leading in, and by how much? What did they tell him about where to spend his final hours of campaigning? Why was his team so sanguine about its own polling, even though it often parted company with the publicly available data? In an exclusive to The New Republic, a Romney aide has provided the campaign’s final internal polling numbers for six key states, along with additional breakdowns of the data, which the aide obtained from the campaign’s chief pollster, Neil Newhouse. Newhouse himself then discussed the numbers with TNR. READ MORE >>
No, Romney Didn’t Win The Middle Class
My TNR colleague Alec McGillis does a fine job filleting Romney strategist Stuart Stevens’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post, but there's one point I’d like to add: Stevens is dead wrong when he says Romney won the middle class vote. READ MORE >>
We'll Always Have Denver
The GOP's Problem With Young Voters Is Only Getting Worse
No Southern Comfort For Wishful Liberals
The GOP Has Problems With White Voters, Too
Did Romney’s Cheapness Doom His Campaign?
How Obama Won Ohio
Why Didn’t Religion Matter More in This Election?
Daily Breakdown: Is It Really Tied In Pennsylvania? Probably Not.
After a day of surveys from an irregular set of pollsters, the big picture remains unchanged but there are plenty of details to talk about. READ MORE >>
