Obama's Bain Capital attacks may be working with battleground state voters


I assume that the Demos ran polls in the battleground states to see
what kind of attacks would work there, the Republicans would have done
the same. What is clear to me is the private equity is neither pro or
anti jobs, although naturally they want to pay as little as possible
for the people they need. So if Romney campaigns otherwise he is
being misleading. What is true is that the financial industry is
not in favor. So Romney has to face that fact and paint Bain as having
a job saving activity. The populace is gullible enough to buy
either line. The are all Werners although perhaps a bit brighter. I think
Romney is wrong is blasting the GM deal, the government's intervention did
save job there.

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Obama's Bain Capital attacks may be working with battleground state voters

By Holly Bailey
June 8, 2012


President Obama's re-election campaign has come under fire for its attacks
on Mitt Romney's time at Bain Capital?with several Democrats, including Bill
Clinton and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, suggesting Obama's focus on private
equity companies could backfire.

But if a new poll of voters in key swing states is any judge, the Obama
campaign is unlikely to drop its Bain strategy anytime soon.

A new Purple Strategies poll found a plurality of voters in 12 key
battleground states?Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin?are
skeptical of Romney's argument that private equity companies create jobs.
Among those polled, 47 percent say "private equity hurts workers," compared
to 38 percent who say it "helps" the economy.

In Ohio, the numbers were starkest: 49 percent of those surveyed said
private equity companies put profits over workers, compared to 33 percent
who said private equity "helps" the economy." Eighteen percent said they
were "not sure."

In Florida, the gap wasn't as big, but it still favored Obama:  47 percent
of those polled said private equity hurts workers, compared to 40 percent
who said it helps the economy. Fourteen percent were "not sure."

Meanwhile, voters in two other key swing states?Colorado and Virginia?were
evenly split on their views of private equity. In Colorado, 44 percent said
it hurts workers, compared to 43 percent who said it helps the economy. In
Virginia, 44 percent said it helps the economy, compared to 42 percent who
said it hurts workers.

(Results for other key states were not disclosed.  The poll has a plus or
minus 2.2 percent margin of error.)

The poll isn't a great sign for Romney, who has cited his work at Bain
Capital as proof that he's helped to create jobs around the country.

In their analysis of the findings, the pollsters note that Obama's Bain
strategy is a "classic wedge issue," consolidating Democrats and winning
over a plurality of independent voters, 48 percent of whom say private
equity helps, compared to 38 percent who say it hurts.

"While the overall results on this argument appear to bode well for the
president, the electoral map dynamics may argue for a more subtle
state-by-state strategy," the pollsters write.

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