Obama voters: 79% for candidate, 20% against opponent
Romney voters: 36% for candidate, 60% against opponent
Ouch.
Why ouch?
Obama's the incumbent. It's only natural that most voters will be basing their vote for or against him.
Yet there's the fact that more Obama voters are for him than are Romney's voters for him. I'm not quite sure how that can be considered very positive for Romney.
No reason to think its a negative tho. It's not as if Romney has campaigned in California so as to give people a chance to base their vote on him. Anyone have some comparable numbers from July 2004 to see how many of Kerry's supporters were planning on voting for him or against the incumbent Bush?
Well, it's certainly hard to run a very good campaign when almost 2/3 of your base only support you because they don't like the other guy. Granted, it is California, but I would be very worried if this trend were to be found in other states, as well.
And actually,
I did find a poll like that from 2004.Kerry supporters were fairly split in their enthusiasm, but Bush clearly had the edge with this.
