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Analysis: Mitt Romney withstands the attack deluge … for now
Maybe being the presidential campaign’s symbol of capitalism isn’t so bad after all. After the two worst days of his run for the Republican nomination — days in which even foes within his party branded him as an elitist job killer — former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney seemed to be on top of the world. (Photo: Reuters/AFP/Getty Images)
Sheldon Alberts: Mitt Romney may not be re-electable
According to almost every national poll taken over the past six months, Romney fares better in a hypothetical head-to-head contest against Barack Obama than any of the other five remaining GOP candidates.
But he suffers from a real problem — the more people see of him, the less they seem to like him.
In Iowa, he won the Republican caucuses on Jan. 3 despite not growing his support at all in the four years since the 2008 campaign.
New Hampshire is Romney’s second home — people here know him as well as anybody — and yet Suffolk University’s tracking poll has shown his support slipping in each of the past four days he has campaigned here.
