vote, a conservative slice of michigan. the whole tumble in the polls is directly due to the fbi, director comy and his reopening the i mail decision. think of the independents in new hampshire, there is the event in new hampshire as well. i think she s still in the lead but this new negative campaigning that s going to the end, that the clinton campaign wanted, i don t think it s anything but the fbi fbi revelation. and as a result of that, it reopened michigan. i would have thought that the vote there could have been more solid because the issues are playing to her, especially with flint on the table with the republican governor in michigan but it isn t. it was just turns out to be more
putting negative information out in phone calls in iowa about donald trump. obviously the fact it mirrors what ted cruz is saying on the air raises some suspicion. i should say, ted cruz was asked about it last night in interview. he said to his knowledge this has nothing to do with his campaign. this is the sort of thing when it gets close in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, every four years, this comes up. the idea that this campaign is push pulling against me. if it is happening, this is what it looks like. we have new numbers specifically from iowa. before you get to them, historically do these push polls have effect? the ultimate example of this sort of politics, way below the radar negative campaigning, think back to south carolina in 2000. george w. bush, john mccain. and john mccain came out in new hampshire, crushed george w. bush by 20 points there. seemed to have him on the ropes. all sorts of underhanded stuff went on under the radar. bush was able to recover footin
yorker, the great bet or grand bet that in the spring and summer they could run negative personal advertising against romney and disqualify him he d never recover from they turned out to be right. romney s campaign did not answer, i think is clearly a mistake. but i m not being critical of romney. he did a lot more right than wrong, but the fact of the matter is at the end of the day, he didn t run on his record, he didn t even try to run on his record. he ran on mitt romney s a bad person. jeff greenfeld negative campaigning which has been around forever or this weird fear you must play to a base that is backed up by extreme forces in the media, that ultimately can t win? i think, when governor barbour says romney didn t run on his record, the irony is he couldn t have won the nomination running on his record because his record governor of massachusetts was centrist
come back ironically to bite them. they were told for three weeks, the race is over, the race is over, the debate performances for romney, the debate performance for romney meant that much more, it blew away the expectation that the race was over. if he had not done well in that debate it may have been a self-fulfill prophesy. i wrote it in the article i wrote, the media doesn t negative campaigning through polls. the news organizations that are broke and spends hundreds of thousands that romney can t win and the state polls and suddenly how silent they ve been, very slow on the uptake since the first debate as a matter of coincidence. kelly, do you think that the town hall format is going to favor obama more so than romney in the debate this coming week? not really, it may favor him more that he got his clock cleaned, i don t think that he learned how to debate in the
over sampling democrats and the mainstream media is away from what the race is. that is, a close contest. the president is about 48 or 49 percent approval and vote share. the governor s campaign has lost support. he is down around 43 percent. the 47 percent combined with the drift in the campaign has reduced his vote share, but it is still a a race, and the debate will be critical. gregg: this poll shows president obama at 49 and 44 and that can chain instantly. some of the media have written governor romney s obituary, this is premature. the media polls, the mainstream media uses the state polls like the new form of negative advertising. other negative campaigning against romney. the news organizations that are broke are spending thousands and