Polling The 47% Statement

NBC/WSJ did some polling and one of the questions was how did Mitt's 47% comment affect your view of him?

More positive ......................................................... 23

More negative ....................................................... 45 

Not much difference .............................................. 24 

Don’t know enough ............................................... 8

Despite the media's obsession with this tape and its effects this thing shows what I've been dismissing. Yeah, a 45 more negative view isn't helpful, but look at the rest of it, if you add the rest together you get 53% that aren't pushed Obama's direction. I'm more than happy to go with the idea that the statement froze some leaners in Obama's camp, but that is far from agreeing with the idea that the statement is persuading people into voting for him that weren't already there. I'd be more inclined if that "more negative" number was in excess of Obama's general polling but it isn't.

The media loves "a moment" in campaigns, the ones that change everything, so this thing takes on a life as one of them.  The slow drip drip of GOPer bullshit from the Primaries on to now as an r-Money definer seems a lot more reasonable backed up by what this poll says.  This is the guts of what I find offensive by the "a moment" theme in this case.  If the definition continues on, what will happen is that r-Money gets the blame as a clueless bumbler for a loss that was avoidable minus this particular fumble. 

If you think some really charismatic person could sell the bill of goods that Mittens has been peddling I'm really frightened for the America of that vision.