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Republican against obama, generic wins handily. if you run a real republican with a name on him, he doesn't do that way. to the extent romney is generic, to the extent he isn't a negative. negative campaign against him doesn't work, as long as he sticks on the economy, explain what is he will do. and runs almost exclusive on that, he can win. i think he has discipline. i would add stability to stay on this right until the end despite the urging to get all sexy and interesting. i think that is the worst thing he should do. >> bret: steve, more fox poll out tomorrow. new fox polls out tomorrow. ...

April 27th through the 10th of may. it has obama at 46.7% and also romney at 45.4%. the rasmussen tracking poll is really interesting. it has romney at 50%, obama at 43%. romney up by seven points there. what do you guys read into this? >> the way i see it, the polls are polls, but they're not the electoral college vote, and if you look at 2008 with obama, in 23 of the 28 states that he ran in, he got more of a percentage of vote in those states than he did in the national vote get. so in looking at that, you've got to look at the electoral college where he is strong among swing states and tho...

Rasmussen up by three. >> there is a racial angle. let me interrupt you. >> sean: there is not a racial ange to this. >> i'm telling you it exists in the polls you cite there that has romney up, what they're doing is they are mimicking the electorate that existed in 2010 when the tea party folks had energized electorate and showed up at the poll. there was a lower percentage of african-americans and hispanics in the electorate. it wasn't the 2008 electorate and according to the obama campaign it won't be the '12 electorate. >> sean: i don't like this narrative at all. but there is an underlyin...

>> look, every election is different. i will say this. i'm surprised that romney is in as good of shape he appears in the polls. at the tail end of an ugly divisive primary not noble to anybody. this is not made him look better. he is in a good position to fight this out. you take a look at the real clear politics average of all the polls since april 5, obama leads by three. if you look at the polls since april 11, when the contest ended obama by a point-and-a-half. it's essentially romney ahead if you take out one poll that gives obama pretty significant lead. otherwise, romney is ahead if yo...

Rasmussen up by three. >> there is a racial angle. let me interrupt you. >> sean: there is not a racial ange to this. >> i'm telling you it exists in the polls you cite there that has romney up, what they're doing is they are mimicking the electorate that existed in 2010 when the tea party folks had energized electorate and showed up at the poll. there was a lower percentage of african-americans and hispanics in the electorate. it wasn't the 2008 electorate and according to the obama campaign it won't be the '12 electorate. >> sean: i don't like this narrative at all. but there is an underlyin...