One of the first polls is out, in the form of a Reuters/Ipsos poll. In the words of Ipsos pollster Julia Clark,
"This isn't great for Romney":
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday showed that more than two in five registered voters, or 43 percent, viewed Romney less favorably after an excerpt of the video was shown to them online.
It's not like the Mittgomery Burns had had a lot of love to spare that he could fall from grace with two out of five registered voters.
And lots of people are viewing the video, beyond its blanket news coverage.
The website Visible Measures noted last night the Mother Jones video had been viewed 2.2M times in 24 hours, which is more than Mitt Romney's most popular campaign video has been viewed since June. The "Eastwooding" video, the previous hit, has acquired 550K views.
Reuters tries to put a positive spin on it for the Romney camp:
There was some good news for Romney. Forty-one percent of the respondents to the poll about the video clip felt the former Massachusetts governor was making an important point about the U.S. government.
Okay.
So the Republican base thinks he was making an important point? Great.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer sneering plutocrat.