Posted on 01/20/2012 6:26:19 PM PST by tcrlaf
Unlike Mitt Romney, who occasionally beats President Obama in general election poll match ups, Newt Gingrich trails far behind President Obama in every survey. But just how bad are Gingrich's unfavorable among the general public compared to Obama and Romney?
Not every poll releases their full results, so here are the most recent favorability results I could find for Obama, Romney, and Newt.
Fox News, 1/12-1/14: Obama, fav/unfav, 51%/46%, +5 Romney, fav/unfav, 45%/38%, +7 Gingrich, fav/unfav, 27%/56%, -29
CBS/NYT, 1/12-1/17: Obama, fav/unfav, 38%/45%, -7 Romney, fav/unfav, 21%/35%, -14 Gingrich, fav/unfav, 17%/49%, -32
PPP, 1/13-1/17: Obama, app/dis, 47%/50%, -3 Romney, fav/unfav, 35%/53%, -18 Gingrich, fav/unfav, 26%/60%, -34
America does not love Romney, but boy do they hate Newt.
If you want to try and sell this, then give it a shot.
This sentiment has been expressed on FR regarding EVERY. SINGLE. CANDIDATE. at one point or another.
If you want to keep trying to push Romney, then do it on this thread, don’t freepmail me with it.
I think you're right in your analysis, and that this could happen.
However, it's not clear to me that Newt HAS changed ("fundamentally," as he loves to say). I would love it if he had, but I don't see it yet. Also he is playing to the crowd and that is causing him to highlight the very type of political persona that garnered him "Most Hated Politician in the World" status back in the 1990's.
IOW, the reason Rush always wins over the uninitiated is because he actually IS a lovable little fuzzball. Newt? Not so much.
If we end up nominating him, though, he surely is going to have to become a whole lot more likeable before he has a chance of winning the general. Of course, many in the conservative sphere are actually working against that by lauding him more the more unlikeable he is!
And don't get me started on Callista. UGH. Moreover, it's not clear she's committed to giving up her life as she knows it now to be First Lady, and that would be a horrible complication for any man, much less one on his third marriage.
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