by the way, brown has to know he has a romney issue. he s trying to stay as close as he can to president obama and as far away as mitt. massachusetts, after all, a very blue state. and rick santorum and newt gingrich said they ll support whoever wins the republican nomination. both have dragged mitt romney through the mud, however, in an effort to stop him from gaining the nod. politico put together a list of zingers that might come back to bite them if they join team romney. let s watch. this is someone who doesn t have a core. he s been on both sides of almost every issue. don t believe any moderate can debate barack obama successfully, because there s not a big enough gap. he s the worst republican in the country to put up against barack obama. there s something so hypocritical about the romney
he leads santorum even wider, 53% to 39%. still a long way to go. rick perry with ron paul. here s the one that grabs me. 50% to 42% against ron paul which tells me all romney can do after the millions and millions he s spent, tens of millions. he s 54 to obama down to the 44 end. ron paul who is a nobody in terms of being the next president, in terms of having a chance is at 42%. he has hardly any advantage over the guy who no one thinks will be president. paul steals part of the democratic base. younger voters. but if you take him out of the equation, look at the obama/romney issue for a minute. the thing about this poll that s unbelievable, chris, is romney s personal negative rating. it s upside down. 28/39. among independents, it s worse. 22% of independents give romney a positive rating right now. and that s where the president has shown some improvement, but the republicans have gone in the wrong direction.
us. just 36% think it s still ahead. with republicans, the president leads romney by six points. he leads santorum even wider here s the one that grabs me. 50 to 42% against ron paul. all romney can do after the millions and millions and millions he s spent, ron paul who is a nobody in terms of being the next president and having a chance is at 42%. he has hardly any advantage over the guy who nobody thinks will be the next president. paul steals part of the democratic base. but if you take him out of the equation, look at the obama/romney issue for a minute. the thing about this poll that s unbelievable, chris is romney s personal negative rating. it s upside down. among independents, it s worse. 22% of independents give romney a positive rating right now.
lead evaporating in florida and gone nationwide. it shows a virtual romney-gingrich dead heat, a sharp change this last week before the south carolina blowout victory. those numbers could and certainly will change. for now, the trend is so worrying to romney forces, they re doing what they rarely do, taking the challenger, not through super pacs but directly. while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the scandal ridden agency that helped create the crisis. that new ad was straight from the romney campaign, this earlier today was straight from the stump. i m calling on speaker gingrich to do two things, release all the work product associated with his work at freddie mac and return the funds he made from freddie mac. i wouldn t have normally suggested that other than he was the one that said if you made money on this failed model you ought to return that money. within hours of that, the
just what is it gingrich was paid an estimated $1.7 million to do. that s not only the breaking news tonight. reports tonight out of las vegas 245 a gingrich friend is writing another $5 million check to the supersuper pac. all this showing that mitt romney s lead is evaporating in florida and basically gone nationwide. take a look at the latest tracking poll. shows a virtual-romney gingrich dead heat. that s a sharp change from just last week before this weekend s south carolina gingrich blowout victory. those numbers could and almost certainly will change, but for now, the trend is so worrying to the romney forces they re attacking the challenger, not through surrogates like they have in the past or through super pacs but directly. while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the scandal ridden agency that helped create the crisis. that new ad was straight from the romney campaign, this ear