According
to Yahoo news, three in four Americans feel they have little or nothing in
common with Mitt Romney, while nearly 60 percent feel the same way about
President Barack Obama, according to an Esquire/Yahoo! News poll.
In the
wake of Romney's remarks dismissing nearly half of Americans as self-identified
victims who are dependent on government—videotaped at a donor event earlier
this year and posted online this week by Mother Jones magazine—these new
numbers are more bad news for a candidate struggling to connect with ordinary
Americans. The margin of error for the survey, conducted shortly after the two
national political conventions, is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Further
complicating the Republican ticket's image problem is that a Romney presidency
is viewed as significantly more beneficial to wealthy Americans than a second
Obama term would be. Sixty-two percent of those surveyed said the wealthy would
be better off under Romney than Obama. That split reverses when Americans were
asked who would benefit the poor: 57 percent say Obama, 30 say Romney.
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