Romney Trails in Poll of His Own Donors

     There has been a lot of remarks on how scarce Romney's been lately. For someone who's political life is hanging from a thread you'd never guess it looking at his campaign schedule.

      Until last nights sudden speech to Latinos he's been keeping a very low profile mostly going to fundraisers rather than campaigning. As some Republicans point out though, he would seem to have enough money. What he needs are votes and everything we see suggests that this has been going in the wrong direction recently.

      Indeed, he lost a vote among some wealthy donors last Friday, and it wasn't even close:

     "The campaign is moving fast to calm nerves, especially among donors. To get a flavor of the challenge before them, a top donor said that after Romney spoke at a fundraising breakfast at the Hilton New York on Friday, a will-Mitt-win poll was taken at one table of 10 men, each of whom had paid at least $2,500 to attend, and some of whom had raised as much as $50,000 for the campaign. Not a single man said yes."

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81428.html#ixzz272J8At8g

    So his own donors give it to Obama in a landslide. The NYT had a report this morning that he's not doing as well financially as imagined. And the Club for Growth says they're kind of lukewarm on Romney. When the Club for Growth is lukewarm on the Republican Presidential candidate that's not a good Omen.

     "If Romney hoped well-heeled conservative advocates would come running to his rescue after his remarks about the poor and middle class sent his campaign into a tailspin, he’ll have to look elsewhere.
His right-leaning campaign hasn’t convinced conservatives that he’s one of them, according to Club for Growth president Chris Chocola."

     “This may sound strange, but we’re doing nothing to improve his odds,” Chocola said Thursday in Washington at a breakfast roundtable hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “We’re not really involved in the presidential race. … We didn’t make an endorsement in the Republican primary process, not because we didn’t want to but because there wasn’t a candidate that we thought we could recommend to our members.”

      http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/club-for-growth-to-mixed-bag-romney-youre-on-your-own.php?ref=fpa
     
     They also don't like his get tough on China rhetoric:

     "On Thursday, Chocola told reporters again that Romney troubles conservatives, citing in particular his rhetorical opposition to lax trade rules with China."

     “He has potential to exceed expectations,” Chocola said. “[B]ut it’s a mixed bag with Romney, and that’s his problem, is that people don’t really know.”

     I don't think any phrase better sum's up Mitt Romney and his whole campaign. With him, people just don't know. Who really can know?