Mitt Romney won the Nevada caucus on Saturday night, his second victory in five days in his inexorable run to the GOP nomination for president, yet it doesn't feel like the would-be nominee is "winning," in Charlie Sheen parlance.
Predictably, Mitt's CNN statement that he didn't care about the poor was seized upon by the media and Newt Gingrich as another example that the candidate is not only out of touch with regular Americans, but also error-prone.
But after he and Gingrich spent a week and a half in Florida tearing each other apart on the campaign trail and in television ads, the image that Americans are getting of him isn't a positive one.
According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll out Monday morning, by better than 2 to 1, Americans say the more they learn about Romney, the less they like him. The Post reports that "even among Republicans, as many offer negative as positive assessments of him on this question."
This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2012.