Posted on 10/30/2010 11:11:20 AM PDT by Qbert
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic voters are closely divided over whether President Barack Obama should be challenged within the party for a second term in 2012, an Associated Press-Knowledge Networks Poll finds.
That glum assessment carries over into the nation at large, which is similarly divided over whether Obama should be a one-term president.
A real Democratic challenge to Obama seems unlikely at this stage and his re-election bid is a long way off. But the findings underscore how disenchanted his party has grown heading into the congressional elections Tuesday.
The AP-KN poll has tracked a group of people and their views since the beginning of the 2008 presidential campaign. Among all 2008 voters, 51 percent say he deserves to be defeated in November 2012 while 47 percent support his re-election — essentially a tie.
Among Democrats, 47 percent say Obama should be challenged for the 2012 nomination and 51 percent say he should not be opposed. Those favoring a contest include most who backed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s unsuccessful faceoff against Obama for the 2008 nomination. The poll did not ask if Democrats would support particular challengers.
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The AP-Knowledge Networks Poll was conducted from Sept. 17 to Oct. 7. The original panel of adults was randomly selected using traditional telephone polling methods, but interviews were conducted online. People without computers or Internet access were given that technology for free.
The margin of sampling error for all 1,254 adults is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. It is plus or minus 6.5 points for the 571 Democrats, and 5.3 points for the 852 people who said on Election Day 2008 that they had voted.
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Kinda like saying....”We made a mistake”
A repub campagne slogan! They screwed us once, now they want to give someone else a chance to screw us.
Go ahead, Rats... run him again so we can watch him get buried in a landslide like Carter did.
I’ll bet if the poll specifically asked “Would you vote for Hillary Clinton or Obama” the result would be quite different.
And I’ll also bet it’s not long before a poll does exactly that.
Problem is...no one else except Hillary....and for her to lose BECAUSE of Obie....She might as well commit Hari Kari
When do we start promoting a 2012 DEM primary POTUS candidate the same way the MSM picks the GOP candidate?
Time to puff up Evan Bayh, Kendrick Meek, Nancy Pelosi and Babs Boxer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Start your engines and identify a primary competitor for BO.
She might just lose because of herself. There’s plenty of material out there showing she is just as much if not more of a leftist than Bummer. To have a chance I think they’d need one of those mythical Blue Dogs. There might be some around still, but the party has moved so far to the left that a Blue Dog probably wouldn’t get the monination.
“Bambi will have a primary fight on his hands if he decides to run. A party doesn’t have to endorse the incumbent. And the Dems long ago realized this witless, preening Marxist moron is going to take them all over the cliff. Obama might do what Johnson did in ‘68. He should for the good of the nation. But what does this POS care about the nation?
51 percent say he deserves to be defeated in November 2012 while 47 percent support his re-election — essentially a tie.
Uh, no.
I guess the old time religion is gone.
lmao.
Or she just might win by riding on the coattails of "Clinton's economy" and the "peace and prosperity" we had during the Clinton years. We need to take this seriously and have answers ready.
Even though Hillary! is just as radical ideologically as Obama, she would never have risked EVERYTHING to get health care passed. Obama got it done. He knows it will be near impossible to repeal and he does not care that he has cost the DemonRats this election—or more in the future. Obamacare is his victory—if it stands.
But if Hillary! were to challenge Obama in the primaries and became president, she and Bill could not only protect Obamacare, they could possibly extend it into full-fledged universal healthcare. She could pull the DemonRat Party back together.
If Obama supporters strong arm Hillary supporters again, it is going to be ugly for the party.
So why is a leftist media outlet pushing a poll that makes Obama look vulnerable? BECAUSE THIS IS THE CLINTON MACHINE AT WORK!!!
Come on people, wake up. Podesta, Carville and the rest.
Where to start?
1) The Recourse Rule that set the bank reserve amount required for securities bought from Fannie and Freddie to 0 (yes, ZERO) came out of the Clinton Admin. along with “teeth” in the Community Reinvestment Act.
2) She’s on camera talking about a single-payer health care system and calling herself a “Progressive”.
3) The Clinton admin also has skeletons in the closet regarding Osama BinLaden and the stuff Bhutto was doing in Ahganistan.
4) And who was it caught stuffing documents from the National Archives in his pants, Sandy “Burgler”.
5) And what about the meaning of the word “is”?
There’s far more to pile on too, these are just things off the top of my head.
Peace and prosperity that came out of the Clinton admin... it’s a joke.
1) On the balanced budget, Clinton didn't have to budget for the Cold War, which was over two years before he took office. And you can judge for yourself what he did about Bin Laden (even the links that defend him are incriminating), but budgeting for the WOT was left for the next administration.
2) The Tech Boom that brought Ecommerce, and the jobs to set up the servers, started long before Clinton took office.
3) Y2K, a 300 billion dollar stimulus all by itself, and all of the jobs it created would have happened regardless of who was in the White House.
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