J Town 10/01, with News You Might Have Missed

Evidence is mounting that Mitt Romney’s leaked remarks about how 47 percent of Americans see themselves as “victims” are doing significant damage to his campaign both nationally and in key swing states around the country. While the hidden camera video has gotten plenty of play on its own in the press, Democrats are piling on as much as possible with a growing number of attack ads.

The degree of difficulty may be low, but the current body of ads connect Romney’s quotes to an impressive array of themes in a very short amount of time.

Widening The Empathy Gap

A huge chunk of the Democratic National Convention’s primetime speeches, most notably Joe Biden’s and Michelle Obama’s, were devoted to casting Obama as a compassionate man of the people, and Romney as a cold and callous businessman who only is comfortable around other businessmen. There’s a reason for that: strong majorities of voters routinely tell pollsters they think Obama cares about people like them while saying the opposite about Romney.

That is not an empathy gap: that is an empathy chasm, an empathy gulf, an empathy abyss, an empathy void, an empathy crater, an empathy ...

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