A zombie should be able to beat Obama...with the right message.
Shocking...only to the polling people, and you..Maybe.
But not to me...and I'd guess millions of others.
I can tell you that I have studied political polling for years and have also conducted polls for some GOP Congressional candidates. In my experience, it is virtually unprecedented for a sitting incumbent to be tied at this point against named candidates that many people have never heard of. Typically, the only exceptions to this occur when there are widely publicized scandals involved.
I will be watching other polling outfits to see if their numbers replicate these results. Gallup sometimes gets wild swings in their polls because of the methodology they use.
Given the fresh interest shown by people like Christie and Pataki, it looks like they very well could be valid.