PPP: Obama, Palin tied 46/46 in 2012 polling

Hot Air ^ | July 15, 2010 | Ed Morrissey

[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.
 

[counterpunch]

Newt Gingrich is the candidate to beat 0bama.
 

[Artemis Webb]

"Newt Gingrich is the candidate to beat 0bama."

I predict much flame.

[Patrick1]

I will say now that I would vote for any of those listed over the Messiah.

[diamond6]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not Romney.

[Man50D]

Nice of the media to already pick our candidates for us.

[JenB987]

Did you forget the /s tag?

[9YearLurker]

Bwahaha!

[Siena Dreaming]

Ugh.

[MrEdd]

No, this is not coming from Rasmussen or an internal GOP poll, but from the normally Democrat-sympathetic Public Policy Polling...

And it's still Democrat-sympathetic, promoting the candidates the hard left wishes would be on the republican ticket.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

This is garbage this does npt matchObama’s LOW approval ratings.

I think that Elmer Fudd could run against Obama and win...

But PLEASE NO ROMNEY....

WHY was Rudy dismissed last go round? Too Moderate????
He would be the snot out of Obama.

[Graybeard58]

Newt Gingrich is the candidate to beat 0bama.

With Pelosi as his running mate?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If they were really trying to tell Republicans who their choices should be, they would have shown Nanny Huckabee leading the Big O along with Newt and Flip-Flop.

[Artemis Webb]

Actually of all of the prospective candidates,including ones I support, Gingrich is the most fearsome debator. I don’t even have the problem a lot of FReepers have with him on some issues. I just think his history with his personal life has him DOA.

[The Pack Knight]

I'm assuming this is a national poll - PPP usually focuses on state-by-state polls, particularly in North Carolina. Also, "Democrat sympathetic" is an understatement - PPP works almost exclusively for the North Carolina Democratic Party and its affiliated candidates and special interest groups.

Some interesting bits of information:

He trails Mitt Romney 46-43, Mike Huckabee 47-45, Newt Gingrich 46-45, and is even tied with Sarah Palin at 46.

Imagine what the numbers would be against a candidate without established negatives among independents like those four?

In case one wonders whether PPP’s sample is to blame, the partisan split favors Democrats by five points, 39/34. That’s probably overstating the actual size of the gap and the percentage of Democrats in the general population, which means that the independents got short shrift as well. Also note that this poll surveyed registered voters, not likely voters — a sampling technique that would tend to favor Democrats and Obama a little more.

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.

[ScottinVA]

Newt Gingrich is the candidate to beat 0bama.

No, no, no... it's time again for the GOP to pick some gray, dried-up old fart to nominate because "it's his time." "Richard Lugar, please pick up the courtesy phone"

[RockinRight]

Newt?

Pulleeze.

Show me a poll with Chris Christie - I bet he beats ‘em all.

Whether he would run (or is even the guy we want) is another story...

[NormsRevenge]

Is that warmed spittle I feeel building up?

yup.

[Graybeard58]

WHY was Rudy dismissed last go round? Too Moderate?

Did you miss the great Rudybot purge?

[xzins]

Romney and Gingrich are non-starters who will not receive my support for any reason. Period.

Romney is a liberal.

Gingrich is unelectable.