It’s July. But Americans seem to be already asking: When is this thing over?
President Obama leads Republican Mitt Romney by 6 points in a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, 49 percent to 43 percent. But the underlying message in the numbers is that Americans are already souring on both candidates as negative attacks ramp up and fall inches closer.The poll shows that the more voters hear about Obama and Romney, the less they like them, by nearly equal measures: 43 percent of Americans say they like Romney less the more they hear, 44 percent say the same about Obama. From NBC’s First Read:
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