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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“There are a lot of soccer moms that pulled that lever for Obama in 2008 that won’t pull that lever for Newt.”
Especially with HILLARY CLINTON replacing Biden as VP.
The media will go absolutely ga-ga over it.
You are wrong.
When you can actually counter SamAdams76 Post # 22 on this thread, get back to us.
Milquetoast Mitt is so bland and boring that I think he does make a two-man race a referendum on Bamster — at least right now. I know people who voted for Bamster our of white guilt and Bush fatigue that would be more likely to vote for Romney than any other Rupublican candidate. What we see as Romney’s weakness on FR, works in his favor with other groups of voters.
That said, it remains to be seen what happens to Mitt when the media gets the signal (and they will get a signal) from Bamster’s minions to go after him with everything they got. The dog on the car roof, lack of miltary service, Bain Capital layoffs, Romneycare, flipflops, and Mormonism. . will all be on the table and will raise “serious questions”. . . in the MSM reports. I can see this coming a mile away.
So then why wouldn’t we nominate Hilary? If beating Obama is the only goal. I think there’s no point in beating Obama if we aren’t going to change his policies. People need to get the “personal” out of this election. I don’t hate Obama, I hate his policies. It’s a truly pathetic retreat if we’re now going to be afraid to run a campaign on our ideology. Sounds like the death of conservatism to me.
Running the risk of being flamed, but you’re right. The working mothers, the ones who base everything on appearance won’t vote for Newt. They didn’t vote for McCain, either. Newt will look like a short fat guy standing there next to Obama. It’s just the facts. I wish it wasn’t the case, but this country is FULL of people who vote based on appearance of the person alone, not their convictions, stands or anything else. I’m not sure they’ll vote for Romney, either and I believe the RNC made a huge mistake by not inventing a rock star for this election. I’m really not hopeful about the presidential election, between the republicans who claim they’ll stay home if Romney is the nominee and those who I know won’t vote for Newt because he’ll look like the short fat guy next to Obama.........I don’t know, maybe the focus should just be on the senate. But then, I live in a state where a very conservative senator was voted out of office for a democrat who led people to believe he was anti abortion, so, maybe there isn’t hope.
That, and they are also making a big move to split the conservative vote by overselling Santorum, (A confirmed loser) in order to take momentum away from Paul and Newt. In hopes that Romney's proverbial low support and numbers will win by default.
LOL. Everybody in the media wants Romney. Can’t figure out why. (duh...)
Sorry, but that map does not take into account the next 10 months of rehabilitation and resurrection The One will undergo.
By next October, the MSM/Dems will be proclaiming him as The Second Coming.
He still retains a mid-40s approval. All he needs is about 5% more. Look for rosey economic figures to continue. Look for the unemployment numbers [not the actual unemployment, just the numbers] to drop drastically by late summer. Look for the parting of the Potomac or him walking across on it.
Every vote will matter this November, and the media will blow Gingrich out of the water once his immoral past makes headlines.
It is pretty shocking as there is no difference between the two.
I served with a number of Mormons who would beg to differ.
That map is a reflection of today’s Rasmussen poll. That is all.
It’s not even necessarily the pollster gaming the numbers. The Democrats may be telling each other to claim they’re going to vote for Romney when they’re called by a pollster just to get his numbers up.
This is also a function of how the Democrats have almost completely stopped campaigning against Romney ever since Newt overtook him in the polls. Newt is the one candidate they’re afraid of, a tough fighter with presidential gravitas and a history of winning elections and convincing the public he has the right agenda. He is also the first one they believed could actually beat Romney in the primary.
Man...they are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at us...
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I think they are trying to give a reason for Hitlary to get into the race.
...not buying it
You just nailed it, in addition to that, having Hillary as VP sets them up for 2016 and another 8 years of Democrat rule. Perhaps a coronation and a whole new form of Government. Can you say Nationalist Socialism?
Bingo!
“...and it is WOMEN who will determine who the next President is this November...”
Earth to Prole, it is women who have determined who our presidents are since 1932.
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