Mitt & Paul have the power of persuasion.

Obama & Co. have every other kind of power you can think of.....all of them bad.

If truth and logic and kindness served them then they would use them....but they don't.

This Cillizza guy (what kind of name is that?) must be about to soil his pants. Pew is always one of the biggest liars until about 10 days out. OMG!

By the way, this poll is like all polls until the last few days--meaningless.

The new Pew poll should be very distressing for 0, it's still weighted for the Dems and now he Romney is up more that the margin of error.

I stopped reading after cum grano salis.

While I certainly want to be happy, I am completely holding any reaction until 11/7/12. Hopefully, America's second day of Independence.

Couple of points:

People are (starting) to like Romney. We're getting used to Mitt's public personna. Like Tanya Reiman (O'Reilly' body language expert), however, I do wish Mitt would work to lose his smirk-like "neutral face" that he shows after he makes a point. It really hurts our perception of him, and holds his likability down.

Romney’s biggest weakness that he seems to be promising more than he can deliver, may not be so. The dramatic Reagan recovery after the Carter debacle demonstrates that it's possible to deliver as promised. All the elements (large reserves of energy, business capital, skilled labor, and consumer demand) are there. Like a wound spring, all that is needed are changes in government regulations and policy to release all of that "potential energy".

That pesky party ID question. Yes, Pew sampled more Republicans for this one and that may have skewed it a bit in our favor - for a change. However, several pundits have pointed out that pollsters shift in October from reporting what they want us to think to reporting what we actually think. They want to preserve their accuracy as the election approaches. They have a reputation to protect, don't ya' know.