WILL THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL HORSERACE COME DOWN TO LIKEABILITY VERSUS THE ECONOMY ?............

The CNN-Opinion Research Center Poll published Monday, shows the 2012 Presidential Race between the incumbent President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, may not only be a very finish on Election Day November 6th, but is shaping up pronouncedly as a decision on the part of American voters between their likeability for the candidates and the state of the economy.  The latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal Poll today reflects the same findings.  So as the focus of Campaign 2012 turns from competitive primaries and caucuses to one on one Democrat versus Republican Presidential candidate choice, the ultimate outcome in choosing the next President may loom over the strength of the economy by the first Tuesday of November, as both these polls indicate President Obama is preferred as the more likeable and most able to empathize with average citizens, choice of the potential electorate, while Governor Romney's one current strength as the preferred candidate is on gis ability to manage economic affairs.  Six and a half months to go, the current read is a snapshot that will chane more than a few times in the two hundred days plus yet to unfold in updating and determing the result of Preside4ntial Election 2012............Fr.  Troy