A conservative political scientist and presidential election analyst does not believe three nights of attacks from the Democratic National Convention will blunt Mitt Romney's momentum.
With the Republican National Convention behind him, Mitt Romney has entered the campaign stretch aiming to convince those disappointed with President Barack Obama that the Democrat is to blame for a stagnant economy that only a new president can fix it.
Accepting the Republican nomination last week, Romney claimed that since the best day Obama has given voters was the day they voted for him, there is something wrong with the job the Democrat has done.
Now the president's party takes center stage with their convention in Charlotte.
But Dr. Charles W. Dunn of Regent University believes Romney can withstand the onslaught that is likely to come out of that event.
"The Obama campaign has thrown millions and millions … of dollars into a vitriolic, hostile, negative advertising campaign against Mitt Romney," the professor observes. "They've made him out as the ultimate boogieman."
Even so, Romney has kept the race tight. And since the Democrats "don't have a positive record to stand on," Dunn says, "They're going to have to continue down that negative attack line."
He believes that negativity will directly contrast the positive picture that came out of the Republican convention, making it difficult for those Democratic attacks to stick.