support among moderates, higher income voters, people who want somebody who can beat barack obama. romney has been able to cut his losses among tea party and conservative voters. it s all playing his way right now in florida. let s talk about the acceptability factor and there are the pros and cons for both. when it comes to mitt romney, 61% say he s an acceptable candidate. 26% say he s acceptable but they have reservations about him. 11% say not acceptable. newt gingrich, 46 say acceptable, 26 acceptable with those reservations. 26% say unacceptable. interpret the numbers. we re seeing the effect of the romney ads. he s really driven gingrich s negatives up to the point that he s demonstrated that, well, for voters looking for-electability. maybe he isn t that acceptable. it s a very different campaign than a week ago. but then again, that s been the story of 2012. right. roller coaster ride and now
i i sure you. i m sure, but that s kind of different. i m just observing. we ll get to the meat of what we re talking about. alex, what is the sense on the ouce or is it hard to tell? i think that romney has really benefitted over the last week from an enormous paid media offensive on the air waves here. you see advertising on all sides of this race, but the romney ads are just overwhelming the gingrich ads at this point. newt needed those two debates as an opportunity to level out the playing field and i think the general consensus among republicans here, he didn t have the kind of electrifying moment he did in south carolina. he s still drawing crowds, putting in strong performances, but there isn t that sense of a run away train as in south carolina. you write that romney s surrogate john mccain says stop the debates because he s tired of the mud wrestling. if romney becomes the nominee,
but what is also true, they have so much free media at their fingertips. these debates in florida are going to be a level for having to spend so much on campaign ads. the romney ads are stale, he those come with something fresh. r they going to have a new idea? it is not clear that they have got a particularly new idea. i think their new idea is to get tough with newt gingrich in a way they haven t done and try to tear him down. susan macmanus, dan balanz, thank you very much. we will hear from the campaigns as the two candidates storm into the sunshine state. who has really got the advantage? but first, a look ahead at the president s schedule. coming back overnight, because tomorrow is a pretty big speech. you are watching the daily rundown, only on msnbc. the employee of the month is. spark card from capital one. spark cash gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card.
i m sorry if i created any confusion there. that was one of john huptsman s anti-mitt romney ads that was taken down today in a hurry after huntsman endorsed governor romney. they also took down the weather vane ad and the back-flipping monkey ad. but nothing can ever be truly erased on the internet machine. i m very much, very much and adamantly opposed to tax increases. the head of the bay state council of the blind said that your name was fee-fee. that you just raised fee after fee after fee. that s a tax. you can t be a perfectly lubricated weather vane on the important issues of the day. if republicans didn t like mitt romney s position on the so-called union-busting proposal in ohio, all they had to do was wait one day before he changed it. history has shown us over the last few decades in this 24/7 media world, the flip-flopping candidate cannot get elected.
brand. you re only allowed a certain number of flips before people start to doubt your character. i m sorry if i created any confusion there. that was one of john huptsman s anti-mitt romney ads that was taken down today in a hurry after huntsman endorsed governor romney. they also took down the weather vane ad and the back-flipping monkey ad. but nothing can ever be truly erased on the internet machine. i m very much, very much and adamantly opposed to tax increases. the head of the bay state council of the blind said that your name was fee-fee. that you just raised fee after fee after fee. that s a tax. you can t be a perfectly lubricated weather vane on the important issues of the day. if republicans didn t like mitt romney s position on the so-called union-busting proposal in ohio, all they had to do was wait one day before he changed it. history has shown us over the