Baloney. If you are going to take head to head polls of a massive field when we don’t have a candidate yet, that is your silliness. Half of those people are totally unknown as demonstrated by Cain last night and the other are not even running. Those polls never show anything that pans out. Where was Reagan at this point in ‘80? It looked like a Baker or Bush year.
Look at the only poll that matters now. Obummers Approve/Disprove. One point bump for killing OBL? How in the world is that strong. Don’t listen to the media spin. Look at what Obummer is actually doing. He is focusing on collage kids, blacks and the rest of his base he should have locked up by now. The WH is in panic mode as far as I see.
The only person Ronald Reagan trailed in any poll leading up to 1980 was (strangely) Gerald Ford.
There's an oft-repeated refrain here at FR that goes something like - "Look how unpopular Reagan was during the 1980 primary campaign, yada, yada, yada".
It's not true. Reagan was always one of the two frontrunners along with Ford, and once Ford was unequivocal in his decision to not run, Reagan never had even a moment of competition.