Shock Poll : Romney 45% Obama 39% [Drudge Headline]

Rasmussen Reports ^ | DECEMBER 27, 2011 | Rasmussen Reports

[RobinMasters]

Mitt Romney has now jumped to his biggest lead ever over President Obama in a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup. It’s also the biggest lead a named Republican candidate has held over the incumbent in Rasmussen Reports surveying to date.

The latest national telephone survey finds that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters favor the former Massachusetts governor, while 39% prefer the president. Ten percent (10%) like some other candidate in the race, and six percent (6%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

A week ago, Romney trailed Obama 44% to 41%. The week before that, he held a slight 43% to 42% edge over the president. The two candidates have been essentially tied in regular surveys since January, but Romney remains the only GOP hopeful to lead Obama in more than one survey. Despite Romney’s current six-point lead, his latest level of support is in line with the 38% to 45% he has earned in matchups with the president this year. However, Obama’s 39% is a new low: Prior to this survey, his support has ranged from 40% to 46% in matchups with Romney.

A generic Republican candidate holds a narrow lead over the president again this week as has been the case all but three times in weekly tracking since late May. Obama leads all the other named GOP candidates by as little as seven and as much as 15 percentage points. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Governor Rick Perry and businessman Herman Cain have all surged ahead of the president at one point but did not maintain those leads.

[ponygirl]

The only reason Romney is polling ahead of Zero is because the media hasn’t laid a finger on him yet. He hasn’t been touched as they have picked off every other candidate.

[MSF BU]

I’m only worried about the ones who want to be called a leader and (in the case of a US Senator) have a hand in sending young men to war and the ability to shape the type of military they serve in. The fact that Mitt Romney’s five husky sons decided to sit out combat as young women their age went off to war is their right. It’s my right to point out that is the decision they made.

[MSF BU]

...some do, but I am familiar with the demographic trend that you refer to.

[MSF BU]

You make a good point here. The fact that the GOP will do really well in the old confederacy or the Left does well in California and the Northeast isn’t important. It is a fifty state race, or more accurately, probably a question of a dozen or so states.

[mowowie]

Fact 4 - Coming from ALASKA you tell us NH is a “Nothing state”?.....please.

I live next door in MA and WISH i lived in NH.

[yldstrk]

Thank you

[mowowie]

Hey man, i get what you were saying and i freaked out.
sorry

[MSF BU]

I agree with you that Gingrich will have the stronger hand in a debate. I’d also be more comfortable having him choose USSC justices.

[mowowie]

“They must really think Obama can beat Romney since they are pushing for Romney so bad. I wonder what skeletons they have on Willard, or, do they just assume he won’t fight, like McLame.”

Every time you hear the word “MORMON” after the primaries take a drink.

[King Moonracer]

My liver is not big enough for that game.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Rasmussen is not “Obamas People”.

[adc]

When you realize that the average-uninformed-legal-to-vote-American-public DOES NOT CARE about politics, and DOES NOT FOLLOW THE ISSUES, we will stop deluding ourselves into supporting an issues oriented candidate. It won’t work. And the nonsense of believing otherwise will return Obama right back to the White House. Depressing, yes. But it’s reality in this culture.

[PghBaldy]

You are right.

[NoRedTape]

Romney? LOL! The MSM is settin’ us up, once again. Obama will win in a landslide against Romney. And I won’t be voting for Romney. How many millions of others won’t be voting for Romney? Romney shouldn’t even be on the GOP ticket.

[The Pack Knight]

I would LOVE to nominate a good conservative candidate who could beat Obama and serve as a conservative President for at least four years.

Unfortunately, it is highly questionable at best whether such a candidate is in this race. I would FAR prefer Gingrich, Santorum, or Perry to Romney as President. The problem is that a lot of swing voters would seem to prefer four more years of Obama to Gingrich, Santorum, or Perry.

As for the rest, while I'm not a fan of Romney, I disagree that he is the same as Arnold. I think both our country and our party would be far better off with Romney as President than with four more years of Obama. While the likelihood of a Republican Congress for at least the first two years will somewhat mitigate the damage Obama could do in a second term, I don't think it will be enough for stop Obama from fundamentally moving this country to the left. After all, while we had a conservative backlash against the liberalism of the 60s and 70s, we are still living with and suffering from almost all of the major policies of the Great Society.

I'm not backing Romney because I haven't given up yet on the possibility that a more conservative candidate could beat Obama. However, if I became certain that Romney was the only candidate with a chance of beating Obama, then Romney would have my vote in the primary.

[Post Toasties]

Do you really think American women would vote for Gingrich or Obama before Romney? Do you??

Well, I wish they wouldn't. But I have three sisters who are addicted to the Kool-Ade.

[Post Toasties]

I mean that my sisters would vote for 0bama over any Republican including Gingrich and Romney.