Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Brownstein Hedges His Bet

Earlier Ron Brownstein of National Journal had seen Obama as a clear leader in the presidential sweepstakes. That was then, now ... not so much.

His current reading of the poll tea leaves (pun not intended) suggests Obama and Romney are essentially in a dead heat, too close to call. Brownstein particularly calls attention to Obama's weakening popularity among non-college white males.

If you keep reading beyond that rather standard observation, he eventually ends up saying Obama is weaker among all groups of whites including women with a college degree. Team Obama cannot be loving these numbers.