Gallup: Little difference in how Obama would fare against four GOP frontrunners
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 4:07 pm
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Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney all achieve roughly equal results against Barack Obama in a new Gallup poll of registered voters. When respondents were asked to choose between Obama and one of these four GOP presidential candidates, Romney fared the best, with 48 percent of registered voters saying they would vote for him against Obama. But the difference between his result and the result of Bachmann and Paul, the two candidates who placed first and second in the Ames Straw Poll, was within the poll’s margin of error.
Obama’s approval rating, which Gallup estimates at 40 percent, is surpassed by the percentage of registered voters who say they would vote for him over one of the four leading GOP candidates. Obama does best against Bachmann and worst against Romney, although again the advantage is not statistically significant.
The poll also suggests a small but significant group of Republicans who are displeased with the Ames Straw Poll winners and would vote for Obama over Paul or Bachmann. While Perry and Romney received 92 and 91 percent support among Republicans in a matchup against Obama, Bachmann and Paul received 86 and 82 percent, respectively. Eleven percent of Republicans would rather vote for Obama than Ron Paul, compared to 6 percent for Obama versus Perry or Romney.
Among independent and Democratic voters, the GOP candidates all receive about the same level of support relative to Obama, except for Bachmann, who does slightly worse among independent voters.
Here are the poll results:
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Comment posted August 22, 2011 @ 7:23 pm
What in God’s name is happening to this country if Bachmann has that much support? I would have expected nothing more than teens percent at best.
Comment posted August 23, 2011 @ 9:19 am
@Kevin – Because of her frequent gaffes, and the focus put onto those, the left and progressive independents underestimate her growing base. Instead of focusing on her gaffes so much, the focus needs to be put on her lack of action on behalf of her constituents, her inability to stray from anything but soundbite catchphrases (which demonstrates her inability to provide any true plan and leadership), and the two-faced dominionism she is trying to bring along with her. Forget going after the gaffes – that just makes the left and progressive independents look shallow and diverts the attention from the real targets required to erode her support base and defeat her.
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