Page 19 - Tracking Polls News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

And you know, in some respects, he's right. he was the one on tape. he was the one who said what he said. the candidate holds responsibility. and it would be very weird for mitt romney to blame someone else when he's projected this aura about him as the sort of, you know, the controlling ceo type, the person who can run a good, tight ship and then he blames surrogates. it makes sense that he blames himself. richard's right. there's no way to say that he's not trailing. i get that they're looking at national tracking polls, but this isn't really a national race. this is a race in eight or so ve...

Polls have shifted in the battle ground states where obama has gotten an edge but most cases in the margin of error. the romney campaign has preferred to focus on the tracking polls and looking at the country in its totality. as we get closer and closer to the election day, you need to win the battleground states and that is where the emphasis now is with an attempt to go beyond the focused nature of the economic message to incorporate foreign policy and a range of other issues making the argument that president obama's record is cause for his unelection and romney says he will be bringing the...

Under george w. bush and senator joe mansion. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. let's get to the point. what do you anticipate from the first, in a series of debates? do you expect political fireworks from the candidates? chris, we begin with you? >> well, here's the thing, i think is interesting about debates. everyone thinks they are about answering the questions and who comes up with a better policy response. but they are not. they are momes. who defines and wins the momes. if you are governor romney, you are going into this debate, you are behind in the key polls and behind in the natio...

Virginia 50, 43. if that's true, and that holds, then the governor loses, correct? >> you know,. we have got more polls than you can ever imagine. do you know how many national polls and daily tracking polls have been in the last 80 days? 83. if you imagine the national polls how many state polls we have h we have got to be careful about them. first of all be careful about reading too much into the polls. in mid september of 1980, ronald reagan was trailing jimmy carter 44 to 40 despite double digit inflation, double digit unemployment and double digit interest rates. by mid october reagan had...

Today is the third reboot in twlee three weeks. clearly the message we read from them is we think we're losing, and a lot of conservatives are saying you guys are losing and screwing this up. bill crystal said the same thing. you can point on tracking polls that are air tight, 1 to 3 point difference. it's consistent for months at 1 to 3 points within the margin of error. can they be within the margin of error in tracking polls and also losing at the same time? >> no. key distinction. i would not look at a three point gap consistently in the average of polls and say that's within the margin of...