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President Barack Obama heads out of the national political conventions with a much clearer path to winning, top advisers to Mitt Romney privately concede.
The Romney campaign, while pleasantly surprised by Obamas lackluster prime-time performance, said the post-convention bounce they hoped for fell well short of expectations and privately lament that state-by-state polling numbers most glaringly in Ohio are working in the presidents favor.
Their map has many more routes to victory, said a top Republican official. Two officials intimately involved in the GOP campaign said Ohio leans clearly in Obamas favor now, with a high single-digit edge, based on their internal tracking numbers of conservative groups. Romney can still win the presidency if he loses Ohio, but its extremely difficult.
State of the race: Advantage, Obama - Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
The Romney campaign, while pleasantly surprised by Obamas lackluster prime-time performance, said the post-convention bounce they hoped for fell well short of expectations and privately lament that state-by-state polling numbers most glaringly in Ohio are working in the presidents favor.
Their map has many more routes to victory, said a top Republican official. Two officials intimately involved in the GOP campaign said Ohio leans clearly in Obamas favor now, with a high single-digit edge, based on their internal tracking numbers of conservative groups. Romney can still win the presidency if he loses Ohio, but its extremely difficult.
State of the race: Advantage, Obama - Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen - POLITICO.com