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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conservatives coalesce on Cain, a guy with little political experience and TONS of successful business experience. And now they want us to rally behind a guy with [arguably] similar successful business experience plus a few progressive liberal big-gov governorship years, with no discernible conservative accomplishments?
the media is working overtime to try and hand Iowa to Romney, but it wont work.
Go Newt!
It’s like I’ve been saying for a while now. We could nominate Elmer Fudd and win.
Funny thing, is we might just do that...
Disagree.
That is what Gingrich will be if he gets the nomination, but Gingrich doesn't have a prayer of beating Obama because he won't be able to get the women's vote like Romney can.
And it is WOMEN who will determine who the next President is this November.
If Gingrich gets the nod, he won't get the support that you think he will.
And if Romney loses to Obama, I suspect it will be considerably due to the fact that Protestants across America would rather stay home and allow a Kenyan Stalinist to stay in the White House before allowing a Mormon in.
Just my .02 USD.
hardly. anone v/s Obama is bound to look like this
This was the Politico article explaining why Drudge has been in the tank for Romney all along:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2733783/posts
Karl Rove and the GOP elite are orgasmic!
I hate to agree with you but the truth is that Romney will be just slightly less worse than Obama. I guess that's a good thing, sorta... Trying to be an optimist here.
My preferred candidate is Rick Perry but I'm not delusional. He just doesn't seem to be cutting it this campaign. Second choice is Newt. There's still hope for him. Third choice is anybody but Obama and it's increasingly looking like anybody's name just might be "Mitt Romney".
Next November, if my ballot says Barack Obama (D) or Mitt Romney (R) --and I truly hope it doesn't, I will hold my nose and vote for Mitt. If people want to pout and childishly call me a "Romneybot" so be it. Screw 'em. We know with absolute certainty that a second Obama term will be a disaster. There's always a slight chance that Romney might pleasantly surprise us. At the very least, we know Romney won't be as bad for the country as Obama has been. Again, trying to be an optimist.
I believe those numbers about as much as I believed the exit polls in the 2004 election.
WOW, just in time to make us believe Mitt is the ONLY one who can beat the Communist in O-U-R White house.
Not buying the load of sh**t.
Has Lewis made any pronouncements regarding what to do about Iran getting nukes?
You wrote that "Mormons never serve in the military." That's not true.
I wrote that "No Romney has ever served," which is true, so that's my point.
You indicted all Mormons. I did not and won't because Mormons do honorably serve in our Armed Froces.
And not one mention of who your pick is?
You are 100% correct. Obama has hoped to run against Mitt for 4 years now. He’s the McCain of 2012. They started the whole 1% campaign in preparation for their 2012 campaign, painting Romney as the defender of the 1%. Simple fact that sadly many freepers are ignorant enough to deny.
Romney can win, but so can most anyone in this environment. Too many on the right think Obama is some sort of challenge to beat. He is easy to beat with his record. Our side has won 90+ percent of elections in the past 3 years running against the Obama agenda. He is formidable, but very beatable. Many here fall for the propaganda of the left. Why are Nelson and so many Dems running for retirement? They are going to be in the minority for at least 2-4 more years, and the White House is unlikely to survive in anti-incumbent era where their footprints are all over the highest unemployment, lowest growth, and lowest consumer sentiment in modern history.
Armed Forces.
DE is assuming SloJo is the VP nominee. If not that might change in a Romney +6 scenario.
Finally, someone else who understands things from a National Security point of view. I would rather have Romney in charge of our military than Obama.
It is INSANE to stay home and allow Obama to continue to destroy the US military. At least with Romney, the military has a prayer of being handled properly.
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