>>> back to presidential politics now. the new nbc news/" wall street journal " poll we mentioned debuts this evening on nightly news. right now, we are getting a new snapshot of which candidate voters are standing with on key issues from the economy to being commander in chief. with a preview, nbc news senior political editor, mark murray . good afternoon to you.
>> hey, craig .
>> let's start at the top here. let's start with looking out for the middle class . what did the poll find?
>> the poll shows that president obama has a 16-point advantage on who is better in looking out for the middle class . this is an area where the white house is completely crafted their economic message. they want to be able to win, see who's better for the middle class while mitt romney might have the advantage on the economy, the democrats and the obama campaign want to own the middle class .
>> let's talk about the -- talk about being a good commander in chief. this is an area where the president seems to continue to enjoy quite the sizable lead.
>> craig , it's the way to understand the context of mitt romney 's speech today before the vfw, as well as his overseas trip that he's going on for the next week. president obama has an advantage here. he's the incumbent president. he has been commander in chief. mitt romney 's trying to cross a threshold, meet a threshold where people are able to say this person could do a good enough job. the challenge for romney is that this -- he will be facing an incumbent president who has done this for the past 3 1/2 years. so that's the way to understand the tough speech that he gave today, as well as his weeklong trip overseas.
>> it does help put that speech in perspective and understand the motivation, i suppose. the economy, what voters in this country, we know that's number one issue in every poll we take. what are voters saying about this one?
>> it shows mitt romney has a seven-point advantage on this. our poll that we released today on this particular question had six or seven qualities, characteristics. this was the only one where romney had a clear lead on. but if he had to lead on one, this is the one you want. as i mentioned obama leads on who would do better with the middle class , romney does better on who has better ideas to improve the u.s. economy , something that their campaign will take pride in.
>> before i let you get out of here quickly, you are digging through numbers. what struck you most so far about our most recent poll?
>> well, craig , i don't want to give away too much. one thing that has been evident in the race for the past month, even longer has been its real negative tone, all of the different tv ads, back and forths that we've been talking about for a while. we'll have numbers that actually show if those attacks have taken a toll on either obama or mitt romney .
>> all right. mark murray for us in washington, d.c., thank you.
>> thanks.
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