Mitt Romney winning the economic debate
Barack Obama is losing the economic argument to Mitt Romney, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, finding voters trust the former Massachusetts governor more on the central issue of the 2012 campaign.
The margin is close: Forty-six percent of voters say they believe Romney “would do a better job on the economy,” while 42 percent choose Obama. Among independent voters, Romney leads by 12 points, 49 percent to 37 percent.
Continue ReadingRick Perry is also close to Obama on the question of economic management. In a Perry-Obama face-off, 43 percent of voters say Obama would do a better job on the economy while 41 percent choose Perry. Perry leads on the economy among independent voters, 43 percent to 40 percent.
There’s at least one Republican who can’t come close to Obama on this score: Michele Bachmann, who earns the economic confidence of just 37 percent of voters. In a choice between Obama and Bachmann for economic leadership, 48 percent of voters choose Obama.
The Obama-Romney comparison strengthens the onetime Republican front-runner’s best case for himself as a general election candidate — that he’s the GOP candidate who can win the debate over how to create jobs. If Romney continues to own that category, despite Perry’s job-creation record in Texas, it could become his biggest asset in a primary.
Quinnipiac showed in a release earlier this week that Romney and Obama would tie in a general election match-up at 45 percent, while Obama would lead Perry by 3 points.
The backdrop for Quinnipiac’s 2012 data is a deepening economic gloom among voters. Nearly half — 49 percent — of voters now believe the economy is getting worse. Just 11 percent believe the economy is improving.
Seventy-six percent say the economy is in a recession and 68 percent say it is not starting to recover.
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