Via The Hill:
The pro-Obama Super PAC, Priorities USA, released a memo over the weekend arguing that its campaign ads targeting Mitt Romney’s tenure at the private equity firm Bain Capital are “clearly resonating with the actual voters who will decide this election.”
The Obama campaign seemed to stumble with its Bain message out of the gate, as some in the Democratic Party, most notably Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker (D), decried the strategy as an attack on free-market capitalism.
But a memo from Priorities USA strategist Bill Burton says that’s not how voters are receiving the ads.
“While criticism of Romney’s business record may not resonate with elites, it is clearly resonating with the actual voters who will decide this election,” Burton said in the memo. “New independent data this week replaces theoretical banter by pundits with empirical evidence from voters. Middle class Americans across this country are concerned about Romney’s record of profiting from bankruptcies and are affected by the stories of people like Loris Huffman and Pat Wells who lost everything so that Romney could make millions.”