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Posted on 02/16/2012 10:19:04 PM PST by Steelfish
Romney Struggling To Attract White Working Class By ALAN FRAM Republican Mitt Romney is faltering with white working-class voters crucial to his party's drive to capture the White House, even as he tries to fend off a rising GOP challenger, Rick Santorum, who wields strong blue-collar appeal.
The wealthy former Bain Capital chief has led his rivals by comfortable margins among white college graduates, according to combined polls of voters in the first five states that held presidential nominating contests. But the exit and entry surveys showed only a modest Romney advantage among whites who lack college degrees, the yardstick analysts typically use to define the working class.
The imbalance was most pronounced among less-educated white men, with whom his lead disappeared.
More recent polling bears out the same problem for Romney. According to a national poll of Republicans released this week by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, the former Massachusetts governor has a slender lead over Santorum among whites with degrees but trails him among working-class whites, 36 percent to 23 percent.
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Isn't nice how the piece starts out inferring that only the educated among us support Milt while the hayseeds don't until 3 paragraphs in where we find he doesn't even lead there.
As an avid fisherman Romney reminds me of trying to pick a leach out of a can. Just can’t grab it without sticking a fork in it.
I have two degrees and I don’t support Mitt at all. He’s a phony.
Give me anything but a Myth.
I guess they haven’t read the GOP-e script. Or, they remember the likes of Daddy’s Boy Williard running for Homecoming King or Class President.
You just never know with Romney.
Don’t kid yourself. Santorum *is* GOP establishment elite. He was, after all, the third-ranking Republican in the senate leadership.
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