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"FacebookPinterest\n\nThe polls in the three states, all of which Mr. Obama carried in 2008, offer a window into challenges and opportunities for both candidates as August begins and they prepare for their nominating conventions and the general election fight. Most paths to victory that the campaigns are pursuing include winning at least two of the states.\nWhile independent voters break strongly for Mr. Obama in Pennsylvania, a state that Mr. Romney has been trying to make more competitive, they are closely split in Florida and Ohio. Of the coalition that Mr. Obama built to win the White House, independent voters remain a hurdle, with a little more than half in Florida and Ohio saying they disapprove of his job performance.But a torrent of television advertising in the states, particularly in Ohio and Florida, appears to be resonating in Mr. Obama's quest to define his Republican rival. The polls found that more voters say Mr. Romney's experience was too focused on making profits at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he led, rather than the kind of experience that would help create jobs.\n\nWhat Transparency? GOP: W.H., Messina 'Failed' on Transparency, Jennifer Epstein, Politico\n\nHouse Republicans are accusing the Obama White House\u2014and the president's reelection campaign manager Jim Messina\u2014of purposefully skirting disclosure rules and negating the administration's often-repeated claim to be \"the most transparent administration in history.\"\nA House Energy and Commerce Committee report out Tuesday is stocked with emails sent from private addresses and meetings scheduled away from the building to avoid official record. Among these are several sent to a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist by Messina, then President Barack Obama's then-deputy White House chief of staff, making promises about language for the health care reforms despite the resistance of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the measure.\"I will roll [P]elosi to get the 4 billion,\" Messina wrote Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) lobbyist Jeffrey Forbes from his personal account just days before the Affordable Care Act cleared Congress in March 2010. \"As you may have heard I am literally rolling over the house. But there just isn't 8-10 billion.\"\n\nRead more on Death Race 2012:\n\n[The Outsider Versus the Establishment: What Happened in Last Night's Texas Senate Race\n\n](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race#ixzz22JJztyj9)\n\nGoodbye To All That Chick-Fil-A\n\n[Today's Political Firestorm: Romney Aide 'Curses' at Reporters\n\n](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race#ixzz22JKDTS)\n\n[Which Candidate Has The Better App? A Death Race Review\n\n](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race#ixzz22JKImRji)\n\nFollow GQPolitics on Twitter for more updates from the campaign trail.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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