These numbers suggests that small business owners consider Romney’s business experience as the owner of the financial firm Bain Capital, more equipped to meet their needs as business owners. The Manta survey also reveals that small business owners do not have much faith in the Democratic Party as more than half (54 percent) say they think the Republican Party is the biggest supporter of small businesses. Only 19 percent, a 7 percent decrease, believe the same for the Democratic Party.
The survey findings are part of a series of Manta Political Tracking Polls that
offer an ongoing assessment of small business owners’ opinions on candidates and hot topics related to the upcoming presidential election. Manta’s latest survey polled more than 1,900 small business owners.