china, does it work? you know, for some reason, mitt romney has managed to remain the most consistent in this race, i think everybody has had front runner status, but i don t think anybody can argue romney has been and i think that perception actually helps him regardless of what he does right now. and as far as going negative, it s quite unfortunate because everybody is going to be chewing away at newt gingrich and mitt romney especially michele bachmann and sort of works it mitt romney s favor, i think. you know these polls all the time and hear from frank luntz, negative ads while being unfavoring to people, they work. are they working here? they do. what angela said, in a multi-candidate race what you try to do is have outside groups or ads you run, but are not clearly identified as your ads attacking your opponents so you can stay above the fray and with mitt romney now apparently getting back into the hunt, and with a number of his committees attacking the former front r