Posted on 11/10/2011 9:09:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama is now polling even with a generic Republican candidate in a new Gallup poll — a measure by which he was down by eight percent in recent months — a sign that he is turning his presidency around after a miserable few months.
Incumbents running for reelection underperform in this sort of poll, which allows voters to imagine their ideal candidate running against Obama. When placed in a head-to-head match-up with the GOP field, Obama performs even better.
Obama has also gained tremendously among swing voters — who favored the generic Republican by over 20 points in September, but now are split between Obama and the dummy candidate.
In a separate poll from Quinnipiac University, Obama ties GOP front-runner Mitt Romney in the key swing states of Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania, and leads the rest of the Republican field.
His strategy of putting the screws to Congress for failing to pass his jobs bill and the lack of enthusiasm for his Republican opposition are certainly contributing to the bump. While by no means assuring him victory in 2012, the polls indicate that Obama has succeeded turning around months of bad poll numbers.
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IMHO, no white boy is going to beat 0bama, no matter how intelligent, no matter how good looking, no matter how experienced.
If Cain goes down in flames, and it looks like the media is doing a good job of assuring that, then we can almost certainly look forward to four more years of 0bama.
It is my opinion that our only hope is to find a conservative Black woman to run for POTUS. A white woman has a chance, but she would have to have impeccable academic credentials, and impeccable resume, and be uglier than Mooshelle 0bamao.
Him and his media buddies are beating up on us while we beat up on each other
RE: IMHO, no white boy is going to beat 0bama
Can you explain why?
Looks like, with the OWS owning at least part of the news every single day, the Left is re-energizing. The OWS has turned to violence in some areas, others are calling for revolution and an overthrow of the current order.... all very exciting and stimulating for the other side.
Laura Ingraham said it exactly right last night on O’Reilly’s show. With the huge advantage Obama has with the powers of incumbency, beating him in 2012 is going to be a tall order. Following Clinton’s tactics in 1996, he’s now in full campaign mode, tending to each little Democrat special interest group. Throw out enough taxpayer-paid scraps to them and they’ll sell their souls for you, regardless of how pissed off they may have been a nanosecond ago.
All that traditional “logic” about Obama’s poll numbers at one year out from Election Day portending a likely defeat, along with “any President with an 8%+ unemployment rate won’t win”... throw ‘em out. This is a different America now. Like Ohio voters showed Tuesday, this electorate still has huge numbers of people who prefer government and union dominance over their lives...unlike previous generations who saw failure for what it is and acted on it at election time. The current electorate falls in love with whomever scoops more government swill into their bowl.
> Can you explain why?
“White guilt” will help 0bamao win most of the independent vote.
Women will vote for him in roughly the same proportion as they did in 2008.
Blacks, about 12% of the vote, will vote about 98% for 0bamao.
A Black GOP candidate would assuage the white guilt of the mushy independents and roll back to about 85%, or even less, the 0bamao vote among Blacks.
Ergo, I do not believe a white boy is going to beat 0bamao.
If the DemonRATs run a black woman next time, she will be unbeatable, regardless of the issues, even if it’s somebody as insane as Maxine Waters.
This is what we have to understand. People are angry about the way things are, but they don't associate those bad things with Obama. I've talked to many, many people and a lot of them say things like they "like Obama". I ask them why they like him, or what it is they like, and they have no answer other than to repeat they "like" him. They are either brainless or brainwashed. And others who say things like "they don't blame him". But they blame Republicans or Bush. I ask them why they blame those people and the answer seems to be "they're bad people", or they "don't like them". I can only conclude a lot of people simply have emotionally driven political philosophies.
We have to understand this phenomenon and figure out why it is this way. We need to find a way to connect the dissatisfaction people feel with Obanga, because he is the cause of it. For some reason, a lot of people don't want to believe it.
I HATE how that feels, friend.
Don’t be surprised if this guy actually pulls out a win.
The forces behind him are Satanic, and they’re very near to having the whole ball of wax in their grasp.
They will stop at nothing; it’s a literal battle to the death.
Allow me to disagree about his anti-Congress message being the reason for his turn-around.
Instead, it is the Cain scandals, the Perry flubs, the Romney flip-flopping, the Bachmann harpings, the Paul inanities, and the steady stream of invective in the media about these candidates actually looking like terrible choices.
Cain’s troubles represent the tipping point.
The campaign has begun and Obama is getting to run against 8 people who are trying to gut each other.
By comparison lately, he looks safer to Joe Q. Sheeple out there than those bumblers being portrayed in the news media.
Garbage poll. See here:
Obama would have to get nearly 90% of undecideds to win. What we’re seeing is an internecine Democrat fight over whether Obama or Hilary should carry the banner in 2012.
Obama’s desperate. History will not be kind to him.
I wish these folks weren’t on our side in a fight.
The good fight is no place for the easily discouraged.
There is a conspicuous segment of conservative rugged individualists that panic and fall apart upon unexpected, bad news._________________________________________________________
That’s a little over stated, Ted. Panic, falling apart....no.
Realistic...maybe. Confidence is OK, but over confidence is equal to the panic you mention above. We’re all on the same page, just don’t want to underestimate the enemy- poll or no poll.
Uruguay.
I’m not overconfident at all. I just don’t care for panicked reactions to a poll.
Polls will change. I like being realistic. I just don’t see the point of reacting unduly to a poll 1 year before the election, be it favorable for Obama or unfavorable to him.
If the DemonRATs run a black woman next time, she will be unbeatable, regardless of the issues, even if it’s somebody as insane as Maxine Waters.
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Michelle Obama????? Say it isn’t so.
Your memory is failing.
FLASHBACK POLL: Who Won the First 1984 Reagan vs. Mondale Debate? (Mondale 54%, Reagan 35%)
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> Michelle Obama????? Say it isn’t so.
LOL!!!
We have the first komunist alien president in Barry 0bama0.
We would have the first komunist wookie president in Mooshelle 0bama0.
BS!
I think you nailed it perfectly, Longbow. Election 2012 is likely to be a much closer, much more hardly fought race than any of us would like to admit. We aren’t going to see an 1980-esque blowout. The demographics just aren’t there in 2012, and there’s no John Anderson (as yet) in this race.
IMHO, it’s all going to come down to Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Whoever can take at least 2 of those 3 states in 2012 will be President in 2013.
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