[tcrlaf]

President Obama's job approval rating is hovering around the 40% mark. This is below the rating that any of the six incumbent presidents re-elected since Eisenhower has had at the time of the presidential election. However, in August of the year before they were re-elected, Ronald Reagan (43%) and Bill Clinton (46%) were both below 50%. Obama's position of rough parity against leading GOP candidates shows that more Americans at the moment say they would vote for Obama than approve of the job he is doing -- perhaps a reflection of the continuing lack of a strong front-runner on the Republican side

[tcrlaf]

This is IMPORTANT FOLKS.

For the first time, Gallup shows a named Republican defeating Obama.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Note that Gallup polled registered voters, not likely voters. There's usually a significant opinion gap between the two demographics.

[taildragger]

Great the flip-flopper which the Blue Hair Check Paints NE Republicans love beats Obummer. Lovely, So we end up with Obama-Lite, if the Beltway types get their way, Come on Sarah Run !!!!

[Cheetahcat]

If these are the numbers GALLUP reported LOL, the real ones must be Double digits down for their Pet!

[sillsfan]

Well that settles it! Romney is our nominee!

Thanks Gallup! Now we don’t have to worry about those messy debates, or whether Sarah should enter the race, we have our answer!

Now we all just need to vote for Romney like good little sheep.

[edge10]

Romney must be our candidate! /s

[C210N]

Nice of Gallop to state who they prefer their candidate to face, and shout it to those who believe in [push] polling.

[comebacknewt]

Shocking.

These are disastrous numbers for a sitting President at this stage of the game.

I am very excited to see Bachmann doing as well as she is. Perry too for that matter.

Romney looks the best right now because he has the most name recognition, but that will soon change.

[bereanway]

In August 1979, incumbent President Jimmy Carter was tied with former California Gov. Reagan — each getting 45% of the vote. Reagan ultimately defeated Carter by 10 points*****

This is the scenario that is most like 2012, assuming the pubbies nominate a conservative who can articulate conservative values. Carter just like 0zer0 was clueless, so things are not going to get any better between now and election day. And in all likelihood will get much worse.

[Republic Rocker]

How could it be this close!

[Hogblog]

Great Gallup and the Dims can have Romney....as for me I will go with someone else......guess this means that the Dims will move into the Republican voting ranks during the primaries and vote for Romney like they did for McLaim.....

[MNJohnnie]

Obama edges out Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann by two and four points, respectively

OUCH! That has got to hurt. Going to be some sleepless nights at the DNC.

[WashingtonSource]

This is disinformation designed to bolster the nearly dead campaign of Mitt Romney.

[10thAmendmentGuy]

The poll doesn’t give a margin of error, so it’s likely that all of these match-ups are statistical ties. This doesn’t prove anything. It doesn’t mean that Romney is a better candidate than the others to match up against Obama.

[MNJohnnie]

Today’s good news

[freekitty]

Oh please. We want a real candidate; not the usual fake ones who are always helping the libs.

[chicken head]

i will not vote for milt at any point- he worst than barry. i’ll go fishng if hes the nom.- you just cant polish a turd, you just cant

[arthurus]

In an actual matchup with voters voting at polling places in November Romney must lose to the kenyan. What does he have to run on? “I can do it more efficiently?” Why would th voters settle for a half baked fake when they can have the real thing again?

[Grunthor]

Looks good.

[W. W. SMITH]

Did I miss something? Gore winning the popular vote? I thought I heard that when all was said and done Bush won the popular vote.