Page 3 - Likability Gap News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Enormous likability gap between himself and the president. his speech was part of an effort that included hiring madmen to sell his story to the nation. even the convention itself has attempted to do something that a year of campaigning has failed to do. paint a revealing portrait of who mitt romney is. last night was all part of that effort, but we did see more emotion from him than we have in the past. >> every day dad gave mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. that's how she found out on the day my father died. she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose. my mom ...

Doing, he could exacerbate the problem and compound it. i think if he's awkward, if he is rev la torre in ways that make people uncomfortable because he seems uncomfortable, that's just going the make the problem worse. i guess i'm interested to see if they take it head on or dance around the margins and he goes back to the larger analytical case, which i think he prefers. >> there's two -- >> very quickly, in a certain way, the bar has been set low. the bar of expectationexpectati when you look at the likability gap he has with the president, in that way, the bar is very high. >> but i also t...

People emerge from that process uncertain about just who mitt romney is. thursday night, he has to do a couple of things. he has to make sure that members of the tea party remain comfortable enough with him that they're so determined to get rid of barack obama and then, finally u he has to say to that independent couple in iowa, wisconsin, ohio and virginia, who may have not made up their min minds, at the end of the speech, does she turn to him or does he turn to her and say, you know, i could live with that guy. i'm comfortable with him. i know he's got a good background. now, tonight, i cou...

Likability gap, every poll shows voters like obama about 20 points more and find him more caring as a person. so this can be a time to explain who is mitt romney, talk about his family, talk about his wife. this can be the real time to narrow that gap. that is the challenge. there is time. the conventions and debates are huge events and that is when undecided voters will tune in and choose who they're voting for. obama is not at 50% yet so there is still room for romney to come back in this race but the convention and debates are going to be huge. >> how important now especially given everythi...

Testify to his character. >> we all know who my husband is, don't we? and we all know what he stands for. >> the romney campaign continues to ratchet up its rhetoric about the president, accusing him and his campaign of engaging in, quote, division and anger and hate. it's all about trying to bruise his brand and narrow that likability gap. releasing a statement this morning comparing the obama of '08 to the obama four years later that's what the romney campaign is. in the interview with "entertainment tonight" the president responded to romney's claim he is running a campaign of division and ...