Too late

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/mitt-romney-barack-obama-2012-election-poll-100044.html?hp=r6 Reap what you sow, and all that.

[theKSU]

Mitt would have done a much better job implementing Obamacare since he has so much experience doing it once already.

Also look at the comments on Politico. Talk about a bunch of    They would make youtube commenters blush.

[ChiComCat]

If Romney had won (lol) it would probably be vice versa.

[CNS]

No one has been negatively campaigning against Romney for a while and he hasn't been serving in office.  Both of those pretty much automatically make someone a more popular choice to the public than whoevs is holding office.

[Dugout DickStone]

No one has been negatively campaigning against Romney for a while and he hasn't been serving in office.  Both of those pretty much automatically make someone a more popular choice to the public than whoevs is holding office.

You would think this is obvious. 

[CNS]

It is, but it isn't near as fun of a talking point and it surely doesn't do anything to further their cause.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

No one has been negatively campaigning against Romney for a while and he hasn't been serving in office.  Both of those pretty much automatically make someone a more popular choice to the public than whoevs is holding office.

You're right. Obamacare has nothing to do with this. And Romney obviously would polling in the 30s right now... 

[husserl]

statistically a dead heat.  poor mitt. 

[Rage Against the McKee]

Maybe Brownback will actually poll higher than Obama the next time somebody polls Kansas. It's been a couple of years since he was able to accomplish that feat.

[ChiComCat]

No one has been negatively campaigning against Romney for a while and he hasn't been serving in office.  Both of those pretty much automatically make someone a more popular choice to the public than whoevs is holding office.

You're right. Obamacare has nothing to do with this. And Romney obviously would polling in the 30s right now... 

Obamacare has been a pretty big disaster so far and Romney is just barely outside the margin for error.  He really was a terrible candidate.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Obama's approval ratings are worse the W's at the same juncture.

 

If you want to do a good "if then" think about what W's approval ratings would have been at the some point in time if he were afforded half the preferential treatment afforded B.O.  He'd probably be more popular than Clinton.   

Likewise, what if B.O. was afforded the same treatment as W?  His approval ratings would probably be worse than Congress.   

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Romney would have been better than Obama, and Romney was not a very strong candidate.  Sad, really . . .