Thursday, January 26, 2012

The Wreck of the Romney Inevitable (Part IV)

Just a couple of quick notes.

The last debate seems to have hurt Newt in Florida.  Two polls shown here taken since Monday, January 23, show Mitt leading him by about 6%.  The total number of people polled in those polls is about 900 people, so the margin of error on that number is about 3%.  Perhaps most interesting is the change from the 1/22 poll by Insider Advantage to the same company's 1/25 poll (scroll down a bit in the page).  Gingrich's support dipped only 2%, but Romney's jumped by 14%.   Since Santorum's support fell by 3% and Paul's by 4%, Romney's biggest pickup, 5%, came from the perennial candidates Aldee Udders and Ida Noe.
Here is story on a Washington Post/ABC News Poll result that shows Romney's negatives jumping to near those much ballyhooed Newt negatives from last week.  As I said before, during a primary battle negative opinions like yours about your guy's primary opponent contribute to that.

Finally, here is an incomprehensible green-eye-shade yawner about Mitt's offshore account, probably intended to avoid taxes on something called "unrelated business income."  You know what that is, right?  Yawn.  And you knew that even in your IRA it's taxable, right?  What?!?

Wow!  Can't we please simplify the tax code down to 1% of it's present length?