WASHINGTON — A slew of new battleground state polls released this week lend credence to the Obama campaign’s argument -– often offered to reporters in private — that attacks on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital are a winning strategy.
While President Barack Obama maintains a small lead nationally, in swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and elsewhere his margins are larger. The reason offered — at least in the NBC/Wall Street Journal survey — is the negative focus on Romney’s private sector career.
For a presidential campaign that endured days of second-guessing over its decision to attack Bain Capital at the general election’s onset, the numbers are being treated as nothing short of vindication. And for those Democrats who watched as their colleagues in the Northeast Corridor openly fretted about attacks on wealth, it was a chance to wonder aloud about the party’s backbone.
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