Team Obama likes to claim that Mitt Romney is out of touch with common folk, and the media echo the thought.
But a poll last week in the wake of the Republican’s overseas trip suggests it may not be Romney who’s out of touch — but the media.
From the moment Romney headed to Europe, news organizations’ attacks on him were relentless. Every time he visited another country, they claimed he and his aides had committed another foreign-policy faux pas.
You couldn’t pick up a newspaper, turn on the TV or surf the Net without coming across the words “Romney” and “gaffe.”
An analysis of 21 major news stories by the Media Research Center showed some 86 percent of the coverage by ABC, CBS and NBC “emphasized Romney’s perceived gaffes.”
(By contrast, the networks gushed over Barack Obama during his overseas trip in 2008.)
Clearly, media types don’t think Romney would do well on the international stage.
Voters? In a new Rasmussen poll, some 44 percent choose Romney over Obama as the better leader in dealing with US allies, as much as chose Obama. For dealing with enemies, Romney edged the president 44-43.
Good thing Americans aren’t as easily fooled as some in the media think.