Forget the 1%, forget the 99%, focus on the 15%. Your future is in their hands.
Of those who say they are Independents, about 60% lean toward one of the parties. The remaining 40% are true “swing voters,” and they are only about 15% of voters. They will decide who wins in November.
President Obama won 57% of these swing voters last time. A new poll from Global Strategy Group shows that he currently leads Mitt among them, 44 to 38%.*
What’s especially interesting is that these voters see themselves as closer to Mitt ideologically, but they like Obama better.
Asked to place themselves on a scale of one to nine, with one as liberal, nine as conservative, and five as moderate, the swing voters’ average was 5.2, while they put Mitt at 6.1 and Obama at 3.9. This would seem to bode well for Mitt.
But 57% of them gave Obama a favorable rating, compared to only 41% for Mitt.
Voting is ultimately an emotional decision. If Mitt can’t get his favorables up, he will lose.
* “Obama leads among ‘swing’ indies,” James Hohmann, Politico
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