[Pew] Poll: Obama leads all GOP candidates in head-to-head contests

Yahoo - The Ticket ^ | 3/14/12 | Chris Moody

[madprof98]

President Barack Obama is leading all of the Republican presidential candidates in head-to-head match-ups, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

A national survey taken March 7-11 showed Obama leading Romney by 12 percentage points (54-42) and even further ahead of Santorum with 57 percent of support to Santorum's 29 percent. Those numbers are likely to shift as Republicans rally around a single candidate in the coming months, but as a snapshot, the data suggest a brighter scenario for Obama than in previous polls.

Here are more nuggets from the wide-ranging study:

Obama's approval rating rises to 50 percent

Romney's national lead widening among Republican primary voters

Americans think Obama will win a second term

A majority of Americans have an unfavorable view of the Republican candidates after a long primary

Voters don't know that Santorum is Catholic

Republicans struggling with women and minorities

Nation split over federal health care overhaul

[madprof98]

On the last point, the poll says that more approve of Obamacare (47%) than disapprove (45%). Looks like they crammed as much bad news into this push-poll as they could possibly have fit.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s called a Pew poll because their polling method stinks.

[skeeter]

How do ya like that - Obama’s approval goes up 10 pts in 24 hours.

[FightforFreedomCA]

I believe I heard on Rush this morning that this poll included 51% Democrats...

[ColdOne]

they can throw out all the polls they want to me... I believe none of them.

[Logical me]

Gingrich would clean King Obama’s clock. Too bad the Republican voters are so blind.

[WayneS]

I still think we should put Gen.Eric Republican on the ballot. He polls VERY well against Obama...

[FrankR]

[NotTallTex]

Expect lots of fake polls and statistics. This is how the MSM got Clinton re-elected.

[MNDude]

Pew is the worst of all polls. Rassmusen is probably the best.

[sand lake bar]

This is the poll Rush talked about with 51% Democrat sample?

[Vigilanteman]

Voters don't know that Santorum is Catholic . . .

Really? He doesn't make any attempt to keep it a secret does he?

I guess that settles it. Only Muslims, humanists, Marxists, agnostics, members of hate-whitey churches and atheists should be eligible to run for president. < / sarcasm >

[woweeitsme]

I don’t know how anyone could take this poll seriously. Pew should lose even more credibility after putting this garbage out.

[PA Engineer]

Internals:

Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted March 7-11 among 1,503 adults, including 1,188 registered voters and 538 Republican and Republican-leaning voters

[Williams]

Pew is a joke.

[NoGrayZone]

Hahahahaha! That emmer effer has sank harder than 1000 cylinder blocks dropped into the botom of the ocean.

Perhaps he can join his pal osama in the “depths of the ocean”......with out all the “ponce and circumstance”.

[Nifster]

And Pew is always heavily weighted to dim voters so what’s the point?

[Major Matt Mason]

Pew is a joke, they should be disregarded.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Sure it did....suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure : )

[Retired Greyhound]

I expect that CBS, NBC, NYT, CNN and WaPo will begin citing this poll rather than their own polls which show that Obama is cratering.