Posted by
Defend America on Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:59:16 PM
Barack Obama leads all of his potential Republican opponents in
hypothetical 2012 match ups, and it's becoming increasingly clear from
this monthly poll that there are two tiers of GOP candidates when it
comes to electability.
Polling
close to Obama are Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. The President leads
Huckabee 46-44 and Romney 45-42. They both do a good job of
consolidating the GOP vote and holding a solid advantage with
independents.
Doing less well are Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin,
and Ron Paul. Obama has a 47-39 advantage over Gingrich, a 50-41
against Palin, and 46-36 edge matched against Paul.
One thing
that's very interesting about these numbers is that Ron Paul is the
most popular out of the whole group with independents. They see him
favorably by a 35/25 margin. The only other White House hopeful on
positive ground with them is Romney at a +2 spread and they're very
negative on the rest: -5 for Huckabee, -16 for Gingrich and Palin, and
-17 for Obama. All five of the possible GOP contenders lead Obama with
independents, but Paul does so by the widest margin at 46-28.
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/06/obama-up-in-2012-contests.html