Posted on 12/29/2011 7:16:12 AM PST by RobinMasters
Mitt Romney has now jumped to his biggest lead ever over President Obama in a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup. It’s also the biggest lead a named Republican candidate has held over the incumbent in Rasmussen Reports surveying to date.
The latest national telephone survey finds that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters favor the former Massachusetts governor, while 39% prefer the president. Ten percent (10%) like some other candidate in the race, and six percent (6%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
A week ago, Romney trailed Obama 44% to 41%. The week before that, he held a slight 43% to 42% edge over the president. The two candidates have been essentially tied in regular surveys since January, but Romney remains the only GOP hopeful to lead Obama in more than one survey. Despite Romney’s current six-point lead, his latest level of support is in line with the 38% to 45% he has earned in matchups with the president this year. However, Obama’s 39% is a new low: Prior to this survey, his support has ranged from 40% to 46% in matchups with Romney.
A generic Republican candidate holds a narrow lead over the president again this week as has been the case all but three times in weekly tracking since late May. Obama leads all the other named GOP candidates by as little as seven and as much as 15 percentage points. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Governor Rick Perry and businessman Herman Cain have all surged ahead of the president at one point but did not maintain those leads.
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That all said, I think personally Mitt Romney is a pretty decent guy. I just wish he'd stick with the private sector.
LOL.
Talk about an orchestrated poll.
Faux News talking about it now.
The MSM is again, trying to pick our candidate.
Agreed. The term “all hat and no cattle” certainly applies to Romney.
When he gets the nomination, that sound you will hear, are the people at DNC Headquarters, High-Fiving each other.
The funny thing about your map is that DE never gets it!
Agreed that there is a trade off here. There are a lot of soccer moms that pulled that lever for Obama in 2008 that won’t pull that lever for Newt. They might for Romney.
Republican candidates don't win by focusing on the moderate Republicans and Dems. If they did, McCain was a shoe-in. Republicans win when the Republican base turns out. Every moderate Republican and Dem I know LOVED John McCain. They all voted for Obama.
Thank you for posting that link.
Yes, there was an article a few months detailing how many of the candidates courted support from Drudge but he was fully in the tank for Romney. Keep in mind him and Coulter are “close friends.”
Obama vs Romney is the definition of “Hobson’s Choice.”
Utterly untrue.
No Romney has ever served.
Do you??
Better Romney than Obama, but I know heads are exploding as I type this.
They voted for that walking sexual harassment machine, Ted Kennedy, over Romney, when Romney ran against him for Senate.
Being an American woman, I can tell you I have been dismayed by all the women who think it is required to be progressive and cool to support Obama, so yes, I think the majority of women will vote for Obama. Conservative women are rare.
Wow the posting at FR is getting delusional.
Yep. Romney is the best REPUBLICAN against Obama by far and has a good shot at winning. Rick Perry is the best CONSERVATIVE of the Republicans but would have a more difficult path in the general. That’s just how it is.
What is your point we seem to agree
Keep in mind Drudge and the rest of the media are happy to promote Santorum and Paul because they take away the conservative votes from Newt but are not a threat to Romney, whose base is moderates. This is a strategy to split the conservative vote so Romney can sneak through as the marginal winner. Dick Morris discussed the other night how this has happened in a lot of primaries. They push a crackpot candidate like Paul to steal votes away from the one strong plausible alternative like Newt and crush his campaign. Then Romney can easily defeat the crackpot one the election broadens to other larger states.
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