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mucifer

(23,572 posts)
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 09:48 PM Sep 2012

Mitt Romney Has the Lowest Favorability Rating Of Any Presidential Nominee In Modern History —

Including All Of the Eventual Losers

Have you ever looked at Mitt Romneyon your television screen and thought to yourself, “My God, he looks like an older version of the preppy villain in every 1980′s teen comedy ever produced. Who even likes this guy?”? Well, according to a new paper published by the Pew Research Center, the answer to your question is: virtually no one.

A review of Pew Research Center and Gallup survey data from September finds that Mitt Romney has the lowest favorability rating of any presidential nominee in recent history. In fact, Mitt Romney is the only candidate over the past seven election cycles to be viewed more unfavorably than favorably — and that’s including all of the nominees who went on to lose the election. In fact, while the graph below only goes back to 1988, Andrew Romano over at The Daily Beast/Newsweek sifted through the data going all the way back to 1976 and still couldn’t find any nominee with lower favorability ratings than Romney.

Oh, and this is before the whole “47%” thing went public.

more at:
http://www.thedailydolt.com/2012/09/21/people-really-dont-like-mitt-romney/

Enjoy!

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Mitt Romney Has the Lowest Favorability Rating Of Any Presidential Nominee In Modern History — (Original Post) mucifer Sep 2012 OP
This author needs to apologize to William Zabka immediately thelordofhell Sep 2012 #1
Summary: Candidate with lowest rating ever, THEREAFTER the 47% thing hits = LOL Coyotl Sep 2012 #2
After the shrub, that's saying something! HopeHoops Sep 2012 #3
Yeah, but the WaPost made it an issue to point out that Obama is unpopular too Liberal_Stalwart71 Sep 2012 #4
 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
4. Yeah, but the WaPost made it an issue to point out that Obama is unpopular too
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:26 PM
Sep 2012

in terms of presidential candidates. In fact, according to them (which I think is hogwash), both Obama and Romney are two of the most unpopular candidates in history.

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