Posted on 11/10/2011 9:09:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama is now polling even with a generic Republican candidate in a new Gallup poll — a measure by which he was down by eight percent in recent months — a sign that he is turning his presidency around after a miserable few months.
Incumbents running for reelection underperform in this sort of poll, which allows voters to imagine their ideal candidate running against Obama. When placed in a head-to-head match-up with the GOP field, Obama performs even better.
Obama has also gained tremendously among swing voters — who favored the generic Republican by over 20 points in September, but now are split between Obama and the dummy candidate.
In a separate poll from Quinnipiac University, Obama ties GOP front-runner Mitt Romney in the key swing states of Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania, and leads the rest of the Republican field.
His strategy of putting the screws to Congress for failing to pass his jobs bill and the lack of enthusiasm for his Republican opposition are certainly contributing to the bump. While by no means assuring him victory in 2012, the polls indicate that Obama has succeeded turning around months of bad poll numbers.
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Come on, people! This is ONE poll one full year before the election, for crying out loud. In the latest Rasmussen poll of LIKELY voters, Obama is polling at 45% job approval which is nothing for a sitting president to jump up and down about.
When I see the huge amount of hand-wringing and doom-and-gloom thinking here on Free Republic, it makes me wonder sometimes if we aren’t our own biggest enemy! If fear helps motivate you, then do whatever you have to do to stay motivated for November 2012. But let’s not keep cutting off our noses to spite our faces in the process!
You see hapless Republicans losing the Presidency but winning the Senate? That seems a stretch, to me. If Obama wins, he'll have coattails.
Which of our candidates beat him, then?
There is a conspicuous segment of conservative rugged individualists that panic and fall apart upon unexpected, bad news.
If Myth is the nominee, I don't see them winning the Presidency.
This is going to be a very close election and whoever we nominate better be capable of running an excellent campaign.
Truer words never spoken. Obama will be a very dangerous opponent, just like last time. We write him off at our peril. He lives for campaigning, and is just getting started. The media will move Heaven and Earth to get him re-elected, and destroy and potential Republican candidate (look what they did to Palin, and are now doing to Cain).
Just as dangerous will be the annual conservative circular firing squads, that are already being formed. We'd better support our candidate if for no other reason than Obama represents an unprecedented threat to the future of the Republic. He's going to spend this country into oblivion if he gets a second term.
I'm with you on this. With the economy in this country pretty much gone to hell in a handbasket, I cannot for the life of me understand how this worthless piece of crap could ever poll over the 30% or so of true believers.
The MSM will never be on your side- you have to seize the discourse and pound it home...
And go...where?
Canada...socialized medicine, $hitiest internet on planet earth (massive throttling/30gig download caps with EVERY provider, liberal hell
Mexico...drug cartels. No 2nd amendment rights
Europe...socialism hell (see Greece)
Australia...see Canada
New Zealand...see Canada
Bora Bora...profit?
It isnt the national debt that will kill obama. its jobs, and nothing else. when people cant work, they cant live, period.
Jobs are everything
“Come on, people! This is ONE poll one full year before the election, for crying out loud. In the latest Rasmussen poll of LIKELY voters, Obama is polling at 45% job approval which is nothing for a sitting president to jump up and down about.
When I see the huge amount of hand-wringing and doom-and-gloom thinking here on Free Republic, it makes me wonder sometimes if we aren’t our own biggest enemy! If fear helps motivate you, then do whatever you have to do to stay motivated for November 2012. But let’s not keep cutting off our noses to spite our faces in the process!”
A lot of the people here are groupies.
They sit on their buts looking at Instatrade and digging for polls all day.
A “good” poll means they can continue to sit on their buts and post on websites.
A “bad” poll means they will whine and become despondent, while they post on websites about their anguish.
They were major pain in the rears in 2010. The only thing they are good for is voting on the right day, which thankfully most say they manage to do.
In 2012 expect their bi-polar circus to be all over this site.
“There is a conspicuous segment of conservative rugged individualists that panic and fall apart upon unexpected, bad news.”
They wear the clothes to give themselves the feeling that they are tough, but many of them are just as flaky as your average lib.
Excellent points both of you. When 70+% of the country thinks we’re on the wrong track and Obama still polls at 50%, can you imagine what will happen after 11 months of a slowly improving economy?
I think all this nonsense with Cain has helped drive down the generic Republican number but still, Obama is going to be just about unbeatable. Take it to the bank.
"The public WANTS to like him...".
That ship sailed when he hit 38%- the reality is, people are (for now at least) siding with the familiar- failures, be damned- because nobody has really stepped up to the plate and offered a compelling, competing vision for the future and really gone after Obama's disastrous policies (yet)- although that's natural during primaries when the focus is other opponents.
"... whoever we nominate better be capable of running an excellent campaign.
Very true.
That's very true. Few realize that ACORN has become an institution, a massive number of the population is completely dependent in Food Stamps, unemployment extensions, housing, mortgage bailouts, etc,, the number is staggering.
The Unions are also massing their funding and organizing in record proportions.
Anyone who thinks that even Larry the Cable Guy could beat Obama right now, is living in a dream world. This election is going to be tougher for the GOP than it has been in decades. Obama is massing a campaign fund that will wind up in the hundreds of millions.
I am more than sure that the biggest problem is that there are capable candidates out there, they just aren’t able to really market themselves effectively. The best brains in the room are often the least able to effectively advertise themsleves. Look at how Steve Wozniak was; he was briliant, but Steve Jobs was the best at marketing and getting the message across.
Doesn’t surprise me at all. The concentration is on the Republicans right now and picking our candidate. Once that is done than he will go down again because the Republican Candidate will be comparing his/her policies with Obama and then he will be sinking in the polls.
[I fully expect a razor close election.]
I think you are correct. Society has changed a great deal in the last 4 years. What I am seeing from the younger people coming into the job force, is alarming.
Morality, honesty, respect and ethics are almost non existent in this new crop of adults who are rapidly taking charge of this economy and country.
It’s obvious right here on this forum. Those of us who were here a decade ago, see a major difference in that regard.
Im telling you the propaganda can brainwash.A good friend who used to mirror my political views that now only watches MSNBC and CNN housebound due to a LT illness. I thought I was going mad talking to her.She was saying things like...poor Obama he is trying so hard to stop the bad bankers and wall street but those damned republicans are stopping him from cleaning up the mess Bush created.She voted for Bush and despised the Clinton’s.
It is like she is a different person.It was freaky.
There were a lot of polls showing McCain beating Obama too. Some on this site were SHOCKED that Obama won in 2008. Sometimes polls are just right and sometimes they are wrong. It depends on many things. If Obama is still winning after we have our candidate named then I will be worried. Until now, this doesn’t matter and I believe he is doing well in the polls right now. Republicans are in the spotlight right now. he is practically invisible right now.
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