“We feel that we are in a very, very good place, that this race is exactly where we hoped it would be a week out,” said Russ Schriefer, a senior advisor to Mitt Romney, on a Wednesday conference call with reporters. Schriefer says the Romney campaign remains convinced that the fundamentals of the race favor the Republican, even as polls show the race remains tight in important swing states like Virginia, Ohio, and Iowa.
Romney pollster Neil Newhouse explained the campaign’s view of the state of the race. “Obama has a political environment problem, he’s got an intensity problem, he’s got an image problem, and he’s got a ballot problem,” Newhouse said. And independents, he added, remain perhaps the most important voting bloc.
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