Posted on 01/21/2010 10:07:18 PM PST by pissant
A new Fox News poll has President Obama losing in 2012 to a generic Republican candidate -- but mostly stomping a few big-name Republicans. Which leads one to wonder -- who is this generic Republican who could beat him?
According to the poll, Obama beats Mitt Romney, 47 percent to 35 percent, defeats Sarah Palin, 55 percent to 31 percent, and makes a quick business of Newt Gingrich, 53 percent to 29 percent. What, no Santorum?
Generically, Obama loses to an unnamed Republican, 43 percent to 47 percent.
Further: 43 percent of Americans say they would vote to re-elect Barack Obama if the 2012 election were held today, which is unchanged from October, yet is down from 52 percent who said they would re-elect him in April.
All in all, 47 percent of Americans say they would vote for someone else rather than re-electing President Obama, up from 31 percent in April.
Moreover, the number saying they would "definitely" vote to re-elect Obama has declined -- going from 37 percent in April to 26 percent in October to 23 percent in the new poll.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-slays-Repubs-in-Fox-News-poll-82312997.html#ixzz0dJoeAgRY
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Hunter/Demint 2012
DeMint/Hunter
Just wait until the January unemployment numbers come in.
“Generic Republican Candidate” has no baggage while anyone you name, Republican or Democrat does have lots of baggage.
Another couple years of this crap and nobody will have the baggage that Obama has. Jack the Ripper would beat him.
I don’t believe DeMint or Hunter has a chance.
Palin’s campaigning for McCain is deeply disappointing to me, however: his re-election could bring in amnesty before 2012, which could in turn get Obama re-elected.
I wonder, who is our most conservative sitting governor?
keep it coming progressives.. we know we can defeat you we know how to and we will. just please keep acting like you are...
Move on org is our best asset...
I can live with that, if I have to.
Surpised they didn’t an Obama v Brown poll.
Just think, if Mitt moves to California, we could have Romney/Brown in 2012.
DeMint/Hunter
Yep.
One would hope so, but the only Republican that would have a chance against Obama would be Sarah Palin.
Saints be blessed, Huckabee NOT included.
Here is the key fact about this poll:
“The national telephone poll was conducted for Fox News by Opinion Dynamics Corp. among 900 registered voters from Jan. 12 to Jan. 13. For the total sample, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.”
from the Fox article.
Registered voters are not likely voters. So the poll is meaningless, since we rarely get more than 65% of the registered voters to vote in a Presidential election. And, more Republicans vote than Democrats.
Where were they polling, Berkeley?
LOL!!
Romney, of course, is a non-starter but Brown may have a future down the road.
He needs to build a record first.
That’s spooky
Obama was and is a shill for the elite..
Palin has proved she has the will and can change bringing hope..
All that remains is for her to co-opt Obamas lieing gambit..
She can propose actual IDEAS for hope and change not merely rhetoric..
Wonder if shes THAT SMART TO SEE THIS..
NOT more gov't BUT LESS OF IT.. <<- HOPE and CHANGE..
Demint/Brown?
Bob McDonnell
What this indicates is the success of pop culture and the lamestream media in destroying certain politicians with the ridicule and propagandist news coverage.
Oh yeah, I have been thinking exactly the same thing since the November 2008 election. Ubama thought that by appointing Hillary as Secretary of State he could "keep his enemy closer"? Heh heh, that's a two-way street.
I like Inhofe, Bolton, Cheyney. How about Pence? Only seen him a few times but he looks good.
They all look better than the salamander and the chameleon.
Now that’s a good point!
Hunter isn’t going to happen.
DeMint wuld be a nice choice but unlikely.
Poll results are meaningless and they know it. As long as Obama polls below 50% he’s vulnerable to anyone that runs a good campaign.
Absolutely she will...Clinton machine is working bigtime behind the scenes.
Thank goodnes.
Exactly ..and the Media is just as quick to determine for us who the canidates will be..awful!
Coakley is pro-life?
Brown is pro-abortion.
You didn’t know? ;^)
That Sarah is a woman and he is a male?
I’ve been dismissive of the theory up to now but given how some Freepers have reacted to Brown; making statements he should run for President I have to wonder.
He has less experience by far then she does. His positions are even less defined then her own except it would seem he’s probably more liberal then she. He’s certainly less experienced or known quantity then Barack Obama whom Freepers have excoriated. Yet people seriously float his name. Why? He’s charismatic but so is Sarah. He’s attractive but so is she. Which leads me to believe one of two things. It’s either because he’s male or it’s the accent.
A number of conservatives hated the way Bush spoke. Halting with a twang. Sarah has her own colorful speech.
Mitt and Brown are male and that that “impediment” to their speech is absent. If people really are that shallow and given the way people have fawned over Obama’s speech I am thinking they may be, God help us.
However, I’m not letting polls dictate my choice at this stage. Liberals are not an option for me. And I’m not a certain vote for anyone. Not even Sarah. I don’’t trust any politician and I’ll continue to observing all of them.
Hunter: Politics, or running for office, it is a process of identifying an opportunity and responding to it. And as you know, politics is largely timing. And if the right opportunity presented itself, I’m not foreclosed at all to running again.
PA: This is one of the reasons that I’ve coaxed myself into trying to interview you. If indeed, you don’t want to slam the door shut and say “ah, I’m done with it, I’ll retire and just throw my 2 cents in from the sidelines occasionally”, if you indeed you think it is possible to run in the future, whether for the Senate, or the presidency again, or even governor, whatever the case may be. The thing that Ronald Reagan did after his loss in 1976, though he did this even before challenging Ford, but especially in those years after that primary, is that he gave speeches, he wrote papers, he kept himself in the public eye, and so by the time…
Hunter: He had a radio show.
PA: Well yeah, yes, so that helped.
Hunter: That did more than the papers or speeches. You know, they asked him if he wanted to do a TV show, and he said “no, I’d rather do radio”. He said “people will get tired of me if they see me on TV, I wanna do radio”. (laughs)
PA: That was a good answer. (laughs)
Hunter: yeah (lauging)
PA: So anyway, that’s why I was very interested when you said you were writing a book, or that you were busy writing some policy papers on China and foreign policy. Because I think we are in for a real bad stretch here, coming down the pike. The Obama administration has started off very poorly, and I don’t see it – well I’m hoping that it gets better- but I don’t see it so. I mean Hugo Chavez is making noise, the Iranians are making lots more noise. I’m sure you see the same things I do. Obama’s team does not instill a lot of confidence in me…
Hunter: I don’t think Obama’s team instills a lot of confidence in Obama’s team. (laughs)
Hunter: But listen, I’ve got to get ready for this thing (Hannity show), so you hang in there. And no, I have not foreclosed anything. And I’m going to continue to keep a little bit in the public eye.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2211574/posts
It’s hard to quantify “most conservative”, but, personally, I’d start with the group of governors who declared that they’d reject the stimulus money last year and narrow it from there. That’d be Sanford, Jindal, Palin, Barbour, Riley, and Perry. I might have missed some others, plus Palin is no longer a sitting governor and Sanford would be a non-starter now for obvious reasons.
Barbour?
Allan West
Duncan Hunter loses 85-15.
These Duncan nut-huggers are beyond delusional. I could name about 500 conservatives I’ve rather have over that uncharismatic fart.
If so, it would be because of Obama chinslurps like you.
He needs to win some office first. But he has a great future.
You couldn’t name a conservative, much less 500, chinslurp
This poll is meaningless if it was taken before the Brown Out in Mass...
I just saw something about unemployment benefits—applications shooting up in January, massively—and as always, “unexpectedly.”
Starting in January ‘11, if the GOP really regains a majority in either chamber of Congress or really regains a majority in both chambers of Congress, then Obama will also not be as powerful. A true, super-majority of actual conservatives in the next Congress would really make Obama very powerless. What would Obama DEFINITELY DO next in such political circumstances?
Jack the Ripper has my vote! I take him to be a fairly conservative guy.
I think he was referring only to whether abortion should remain “legal.” He’s pro-choice-to-kill. But he’s against Birth-Canal Brain-Suctioning (that’s the clinical, non-emotional term for “Partial-Birth Abortion”) and Embryonic Stem Cell Research, strangely enough.
I can stomach a Protestant who’s so-so on abortion ahead of a loathsome, vile, Satan-worshipping, phony, pro-abortion “Catholic” any day. E.g., Kennedy, Kerry, Coakley, etc.
I believe the Jan unemployment numbers will be horrific.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.