Posted on 12/21/2007 8:39:55 PM PST by Ol' Sparky
UTICA, New York - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama would defeat all five of the top Republicans in prospective general election contests, performing better than either of his two top rivals, a new Zogby telephone poll shows.
His margins of advantage range from a 4 percent edge over Arizona Sen. John McCain and a 5 percent edge over Arkansas’ Mike Huckabee to an 18 percentage point lead over Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, the survey shows. Against New York’s Rudy Giuliani he leads by 9%, and against Fred Thompson of Tennessee he holds a 16 point edge.
The telephone survey included 1,000 likely voters nationwide and carries a margin of error of +/– 3.2 percentage points. The poll was conducted Dec. 12–14, 2007.
Democrat Hillary Clinton of New York would defeat Romney by a narrow 46% to 44% margin and Thompson by a 48% to 42% margin. She would lose to Huckabee 48% to 43%, to Giuliani 46% to 42%, and to McCain by a 49% to 42% margin. The data suggest that Clinton has improved her position slightly. A November Zogby Interactive poll showed her losing by small margins to all five of the top GOP candidates.
Since when were any of these polls proof of anything?
I believe this poll about as much as I believe Jessica Alba is going to be coming over to hookup with me later this evening and my wife has given me permission to do it.
I believe this poll about as much as I believe Jessica Alba is going to be coming over to hookup with me later this evening and my wife has given me permission to do it.
This poll is ludicrous.
Polls while practically nobody is thinking about presidential politics signifies nothing.
While we need to take this poll with a grain of salt, I do believe that Obama would be much tougher to defeat than Hillary. He also would be a aboost instead of a damper on candidates running for Congress. Hillary would be a disaster for those folks.
Uh..huh..
And a PBS poll shows that Tinkwinky leads them all.
With Rush’s spanking of Huckabee, today, he’ll be lucky to beat Ron Paul in Iowa.
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Don’t give me that nonsense. Put BarryO on the stage with any of the Republican candidates and he’ll be shown for the nitwit he is.
Rainbow Stew.
Also you have a very fractured Republican race with many more serious contenders than that of the dims.
Regarding dims, I hear two names. Obama and Hillary.
In the republican side we have McCain, Huckaboob, Thompson, Romney, as major contenters.
As we parse things down to one candidate, and when the whole nation becomes interested, that is when we will find out about these polls.
Right now people don't know much about anyone and really don't care (at this point).
As the whole nation (as a whole--instead of the state by state issues we see now) sees debates and the likes between one republican and one dimocrat that is when opinions form.
Personally I believe Romney will put an old fashion butt kicking on either Obama or Hillary on a national stage.
Why? Because of a Zogby poll? Rasmussen poll numbers have consistently shown the Republican candidates much closer together with Mitt tied for 3rd place and less than 4 pts below Huck or Rudy. The Zogby poll states a 13 pt difference between Mitt and McCain which makes no sense. So I would not place much weight in this. I also think the public's perception of Obama or Hillary would suffer after a head-to-head debate with any of these Republican candidates and especially against Mitt Romney who is the best speaker of the bunch.
You're right. The polls mean nothing and Duncan Hunter is going to win Iowa and New Hampshire.
Polls have consistently for months showed Romney doing more poorly than any other candidate. He is guaranteed loser.
Hello, this is a Zogby poll. I would just love to see Mitt Romney debate Obama or the Hill.
This is not proof of anything — it is highly sensitive to the internals, i.e. how many R, D and I-s they polled, and whether that is representative of the nation.
Pollsters play a lot of games with that.
That’s it then. Let’s just call the election and crown Obama as the new President! (/sarc)
He has purchased 18,000 ads nationwide and can't crack 15% in the national polls. He has outspent Huckabee 20-1 in Iowa and trials there. New Hampshire is in his political backyard yet McCain has closed within striking distance there.
If it wasn't for his money and the fact NH is next to home state, he would never been anything more than a bad, second-tier candidate.
And, polls consistently showing a Mormon problem that isn't going to go away, like or not. And, what people are learning about him is that is a liar and flip-flopper, something the Democrats will hammer him into the ground on.
zogby just supporting hussein
this is just so much useless crap propaganda it’s practically criminal.
seriously, what possible good is it to know a theoretical match up between people who have never gotten a vote in a presidential primary before?? other than the propaganda value for Obama, what else is this poll useful for?
The fact that he is becoming best known for telling Clinton-like whoopers is going make him any more electable.
Who is “Willard”?
In fact, the RCP average all polls show him a sterling 18% on average behind John Edwards while every other candidate is at least 7% closer to Edwards.
Who is "him"?
And Tom McClintock could not beat the Dem, until they did exit polling, and found he would have won easily.
Do you mean nationwide as in the nearest 3 states to hold primaries, or do you mean nationwide as in all 50 states?
Either way, it explains why what you say.
Assuming those ads were placed in all 50 states, over the course of 9 or 10 months that would be roughly one ad in each state per day--hardly enough to reach the consumer.
If those ads were placed strategically---and they were--- that says Mitt's barely started the race (along with everyone else).
Actually speaking, I trust democrats on a whole a lot more than about 25% of the republican base to not hammer Romney on his religion.
The only people hollering about it now is the branch dividian wing of the republican party.
I read where such polls cost about $50,000 to conduct but they make three times that in profits. So they’re good business for the pollsters if nothing else.
With Zogby’s leftest leaning, it would be hard to convince me there is no politics in his polling.
I think many of the polls are politically driven.
You can take 5-10 points from Obama when his middle name is used.
I don’t put a lot of stock in Zogby, but if this is true, it confirms what I thought about Mitt: He’s an appealing, charismatic, perfectly acceptable candidate who cannot win in the general.
Due to the electoral college this poll is worthless unless it takes into account the state matchups. It couldn’t possibly be able to do that without a huge, huge number of people polled.
Clearly Zogby is carrying the Democrats’ water here...trying to show Mitt to be the weakest Republican general election candidate, when he may in fact be the strongest.
I’m afraid you may be right, but I’m not sure - Zogby supports Obama for the democrat nomination, Ron Paul for the other - speaks volumes.
And Romney probably could beat Hillary fairly easy if it comes to that.
Don’t fool yourselves into thinking that Obama is not a wolf in a wool sweater very appealing to Americans.
I think not.
(And Fred Thompson so far has come across much like Robert Dole -- or the characterization of Dole in SNL.)
Of course it is. They pick the biggest losers and try to tell the Republicans that they are the best choice.
Zogby Poll: Obama Leads Top Republicans (Romney -18, Huck -5, McCain -4)....
sorry ~ zogby poll = one muzzie push polling for another!!!!!
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