Posted on 09/20/2011 5:19:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Look out President Barack Obama. Even Sarah Palin's gaining on you.
A new McClatchy-Marist poll finds that Obama looks increasingly vulnerable in next year's election, with a majority of voters believing he'll lose to any Republican, a solid plurality saying they'll definitely vote against him and most potential Republican challengers gaining on him.
Even in potential matchups where he leads, Obama in most cases has lost ground to the Republican.
The biggest gain came for Palin, the former Alaska governor who hasn't yet announced whether she'll jump into the fast-changing race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
After trailing Obama by more than 20 percentage points in polls all year, the new national survey, taken Sept. 13-14, found Palin trailing the president by just 5 points, 49-44 percent. The key reason: She now leads Obama among independents, a sharp turnaround.
Overall, the gains among Republicans "speak to Obama's decline among independents generally, and how the middle is not his right now," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the national survey.
"This will require him to find ways to either win back the middle or energize his base in ways that hasn't happened so farm" Miringoff said....
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Hmmm......
She is third or fourth in most polls that (errantly) include non-candidates. If she gets in there is a very good chance that she will make the top tier a three person race, sucking all of the oxygen out of Bachmann, Cain, Newt and Santorum.
And probably taking a few points from Perry.
Somewhere, Mitt Romney is praying to his “God.”
Obama leads Perry by 50 percent to 41 percent.
Flypaper for Perrywinkles, as I expected.
The day she announces is going to find me dancing in the street for 5 minutes, donating to your 2 million dollar mission right after that, and then giving her at least 6 hours a day.
It cracks me up when my local talk radio dudes talk so seriously about this “two man race”. They have no imagination. Fortunately Sarah does!
>>>> Gov. Palin gains over 15 points, now almost tied
Yet not gaining or “almost tied” with either Perry or Romney. Which would seem to be the immediate problem.
Here Palin seems to be benefiting from the “Generic Republican” thing.
The left won't know what to do, even though they are presently working overtime to damage her reputation.
Has any Freeper heard anywhere where either she or that athlete deny even knowing each other much less having "slept" together? Or what's up?
The worst part of that allegation is that a lot of "voters" will add that to their list of dislikes of this great woman.
I just hope she jumps in and kicks a lot of ass!
Actually I said some very positive things about your (non) candidate so kindly shove it.
That’s good news but don’t forget the risk if Sarah jumps in:
Sarah takes votes from Perry not Romney. Romney splits the conservative vote and walks away with the nomination. Could happen.
Impossible. We have "right here in River City" a whole gaggle of fifteen-year-old einsteins who insist endlessly and tediously that Palin is "unelectable because the independents hate her."
I suspect the reality is that both of them are much closer to Zero than than.
HAhaahaaahaaa, she’s still not in, HAhaahaaahaaa!
You Perrywinkles slay me! Read the article! ROTFLMAO!!
Hahahaha! She’s beating almost everyone without declaring, even after being attacked by the entire Left and RINO GOP for THREE YEARS!!
Palin trails by 5 points (49-44), yet the same voters in the same survey say that by 49-36 they will vote against Obama.
If I didn’t know better, I’d say that the left-wing media is wanting Palin to be the nominee. She had a favorable article in the NYT last week that was posted here multiple times.
There is no such thing as a “kindly shove it”.
I agree with your assessment.
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