Posted on 07/15/2010 1:01:06 PM PDT by counterpunch
No, this is not coming from Rasmussen or an internal GOP poll, but from the normally Democrat-sympathetic Public Policy Polling...
With his approval numbers hitting new lows it’s no surprise that Barack Obama’s numbers in our monthly look ahead to the 2012 Presidential race are their worst ever this month. He trails Mitt Romney 46-43, Mike Huckabee 47-45, Newt Gingrich 46-45, and is even tied with Sarah Palin at 46. The only person tested he leads is Jan Brewer, who doesn’t have particularly high name recognition on the national level at this point.
It’s not that any of the Republican candidates are particularly well liked. Only Huckabee has positive favorability numbers at 37/28. Romney’s at 32/33, Gingrich at 32/42, Palin at 37/52, and Brewer at 17/20. But with a majority of Americans now disapproving of Obama it’s no surprise that a large chunk of them would replace him as President if they had that choice today.
There are two things driving these strong poll numbers for the Republican candidates. The first is a lead with independents in every match up. Romney leads 48-35 with them, Gingrich is up 50-39, Huckabee has a 46-40 advantage, Palin’s up 47-42, and even Brewer has a 38-37 edge.
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I would pay hundreds of dollars for front row at those debates.
Gingrich would annihilate him. In fact, I believe he would do so by so great of a margin that minds would be changed.
There are Boy Scouts who could beat Obama in a debate... like thumpin’ on a big dummy..
Newt and Mitt are far from visionary ..
New blood is brewing in the GoP
another year should help bring new faces forward as the race to be poll king unfolds.. It is time for a return to sanity in gubamint. Sorry Mitt and Newt, maybe an ambassadorship or something but.. Head Cheese, Nyaaah. jmo
Seriously, if Newt and Mitt are the best we can do, we’re screwed.
1. Thumbs UP for national security
2. Thumbs DOWN on "gay" marriage
3. Thumbs DOWN on border security
4. Thumbs DOWN on gun control
5. Thumbs DOWN on abortion
Too moderate? I'd say "no."
I'd say, "too liberal."
Gingrich was absolutely and irrevocably savaged by the Clinton War Room in the 90s. He’s damaged goods among most moderates and independents.
I absolutely agree that he’d clean Obama’s clock in any debate, but a large number of swing voters are already so prejudiced against him that I don’t think they’d even hear what Gingrich has to say.
We agree with Scoobie that Newt Gingrich's serial wife-dumping was worse than Bill Clinton's sexual escapades. In 1981, Newt dumped his first wife, Jackie Battley, for Marianne, wife number 2, while Jackie was in the hospital undergoing cancer treatment. Marianne and Newt divorced in December, 1999 after Marianne found out about Newt's long-running affair with Callista Bisek, his one-time congressional aide. Gingrich asked Marianne for the divorce by phoning her on Mother's Day, 1999. [Source: New York Post, July 18, 2000, Newt's Ex Wife Aiming to Pen Book by Bill Sanderson, available on lexis]. http://www.talkleft.com/story/2002/10/29/351/23416
I would vote for me too. LOL
Still, the SRM would trumpet how 0bama "won." Sarah wiped the floor in 2008 with Plugs, but lo and behold, there went the "media," handing the win to Biden.
It does not matter how good Gingrich would do in a debate.
He married one of his high school teachers then handed her divorce papers while she was in a hospital bed recovering from cancer surgery. He cheated on his second wife multiple times. If he was a Democrat he might be able to get away with this but he’s not.
ditto
So, who WOULD you all vote for at this point and why?
“but a large number of swing voters are already so prejudiced against him that I don’t think they’d even hear what Gingrich has to say.”
Cozying up to Pelosi on globull warming and his recent calls for the NAACP and the Tea Party to have a sit down say more than he ever could in a debate. I don’t trust him enough anymore to vote for him. He’s a PC conservative, also known as an oppurtunist.
While I like Palin, her playing kissy face with McCain makes me squirm.
Romney, well, I don’t have time to list the reasons I hate him.
Is it possible to frontrun someone without an immense amount of baggage? I don’t even know who they are. Chris Christie and Jim DeMint come to mind, but Christie already said he won’t run in 2012 and I don’t know about DeMint making that leap.
That's a surprising admission from them. I'm not sure I agree that sampling "likely voters" would favor Democrats and Obama, though. Just ask President John Kerry.
I think you are misreading the original quote. I read it to have 'registered voters' as the subject and 'tend to favor Democrats and Obama' as the predicate. Imprecise grammar by the writer.
Face it -- We've been continuously screwed since Reagan left office. Bush? Bush? McCain? Romney? The Preacher? Feh.
McCain was the only Republican that could win in 2008. Look where that got us. Never trust the lap dogs.
The whole NAMBLA connection thing didn't go over with social conservatives among many reasons.
Rudy had been on the board of The Stonewall veteran's association in New York, and actually attended meetings (not just a connection only on paper.
What is The Stonewall veteran's association and why was yet another gay activist group founded when ACTUP has been so succesful? Well The Stonewall veteran's association to lobby against age of consent laws and reunite the man-boy love crowd with the rest of gay society.
This was too well documented to hide, and Rudy would have been pretty instantly destroyed had he won the nomination.
Someone please remind me why Newt left congress?
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