Not all voters want blood
Focus group likes ads that go after Obama in a nice way
By James Rainey LA Times
3:19 PM PDT, September 3, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Republican pollster Frank Luntz got together a group of deeply disaffected voters from around the Charlotte area Monday and several who voted for President Obama four years ago said they now intend to vote for Mitt Romney or are open to that possibility.
The group of 27 voters who met in a suburban office here seemed to tilt against President Obama more than the North Carolina populace as a whole. A new Elon University poll, released by the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer on Monday, gave Republican challenger Romney a slight 47% to 43% advantage over Obama.
The state went narrowly for Obama in 2008 but is judged to be one of the more difficult swing states for him to keep in his column this fall.
The feelings of the voters who met with Luntz seemed to confirm an opinion expressed last week by uber-Republican strategist Karl Rove: that anti-Obama ads should not be too harsh. Rove told a group of big GOP donors, in a meeting reported by Bloomberg, that the president remained tremendously popular with most Americans, who would not warm to overly-negative ad hits.
(More here.)
By James Rainey LA Times
3:19 PM PDT, September 3, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Republican pollster Frank Luntz got together a group of deeply disaffected voters from around the Charlotte area Monday and several who voted for President Obama four years ago said they now intend to vote for Mitt Romney or are open to that possibility.
The group of 27 voters who met in a suburban office here seemed to tilt against President Obama more than the North Carolina populace as a whole. A new Elon University poll, released by the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer on Monday, gave Republican challenger Romney a slight 47% to 43% advantage over Obama.
The state went narrowly for Obama in 2008 but is judged to be one of the more difficult swing states for him to keep in his column this fall.
The feelings of the voters who met with Luntz seemed to confirm an opinion expressed last week by uber-Republican strategist Karl Rove: that anti-Obama ads should not be too harsh. Rove told a group of big GOP donors, in a meeting reported by Bloomberg, that the president remained tremendously popular with most Americans, who would not warm to overly-negative ad hits.
(More here.)
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