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A Washington Post/ABC News poll found last week that voters in eight battleground states saw Romney’s business experience negatively. “Compared with February, more people in the eight states identified as ‘tossups’ by The Washington Post now say Romney did more to cut than create jobs in the United States when he worked as a corporate investor before entering politics,” according to the Post. “And twice as many swing-state voters consider Romney’s work in buying and restructuring companies a reason to oppose, rather than to support, his candidacy.”
A June 26 NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 33 percent of swing-state voters see Romney’s business experience negatively versus just 18 percent who see it as an asset.
The super PAC backing President Obama, which has spent a significant amount of its resources on Bain attack ads, produced polling showing last week that the ads are working. In its memo, Priorities USA Action argued “clear negative trends have emerged” over Romney’s business experience. More voters in swing states view Romney’s time at Bain as a reason not to vote for the presumptive GOP nominee, 37 percent, than the 27 percent who view it as a reason to vote for him, according to the memo. Perhaps worse, voters exposed to the group’s ads preferred the president more than voters in media markets where the ads did not run.
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