[piasa]

Romney has pretty high favorabilities in the polls, which gives him that advantage. Ron Paul is very strong with Independents, especially young male independents.

Kind of like choosing the best of both hurls....

[truthfreedom]

It makes sense. The stuff that people who are not solid Republicans like is stuff that solid Republicans don’t like.

With Ron Paul it’s extremely easy to see. Young male independents really do like the end the wars stuff. Romney is generally to the left on all issues, so “moderates” like Romney.

Ron Paul’s numbers, even though better than everyone elses vs Obama except for Romney, are hurt by a large number of Republican undecideds. Republicans aren’t saying they’d vote for Obama vs Paul (Obama’s numbers with Republicans vs Paul aren’t good), but they aren’t saying they’d vote for Paul either. Paul would be crushing it on the head to heads vs Obama if Paul would pick up half of the undecided Republicans.