“The plan is to have Romney lead in the polls until after the convention.”
And for maybe a week after the convention. Romney must look invincible, inevitable or there is a possibility of a brokered convention, and possibly no Romney.
I think the dems whole campaign depends on Romney, based on the ideas being floated- wealthy white guy, one of the 1%, lays people off for his profit, does not pay his fair share, belongs to a religion that once excluded dark-skinned people as a matter of doctrine, and so on.
Polls are designed to change, not reflect, opinion for the most part.
There is no possibility of a brokered convention. The odds of that happening were always slim to none - the odds now are none.
Polls are designed to change, not reflect, opinion for the most part.
Gallup is not involved in some kind of weird conspiracy to nominate Willard. They started doing the head to head polling when it became obvious to every political analyst and pollster in the entire world that Mitt had effectively locked up the nomination already.