This is insanity.
As many as 20%, or 1 in 5 Republican voters are leaning toward Obama. So says a Wenzell poll for World Net Daily:
The latest WND/Wenzel Poll shows none of the current crop of Republican presidential candidates has solidified the base of the party, with one in five GOP voters leaning toward support of Obama in November.
The results are from the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies. The poll was conducted by telephone Feb. 1-3, 2012, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.44 percentage points.
“The improvement in Obama’s prospects compared to the four remaining Republican challengers stems largely from two factors,” suggests pollster Fritz Wenzel. “First, Obama has largely avoided the political limelight while the GOP candidates savage each other with increasing intensity. Second, a smattering of evidence indicates that the economy is getting a little better, which helps the White House in the eyes of the voters. Secondly, the bloody fight for the Republican presidential nomination – by most estimations the nastiest GOP fight in memory – has really hurt the images of the challengers in the eyes of both Republicans and, especially, independent voters. For Republicans, each candidate carries with them now some taint that cannot be ignored.”
In every case except the match-up against Ron Paul, more than 20 percent of Republican voters said they are more likely to support Obama than the Republican challenger. And Ron Paul is close, as 19% of Republicans said they are more likely to support Obama than Paul.
Making the situation more bleak for opponents of Obama, independent voters are apparently quite put off with the Republican nomination fight. While polls last fall showed them leaning Republican by roughly a two-to-one margin, they are now either split evenly or favoring Obama.
Read rest of the article here.
All this is despite the fact that Obama’s approval rating is below historical reelection standard.
According to Gallup’s most recent daily tracking poll, Obama’s current approval rating is at 47%. He has not been over 50% since Osama bin Laden was killed last May. Gallup observes:
“History shows that by March of the election year, all winning presidents in the modern era, including George W. Bush, had job approval ratings above 50%, and all losing presidents had job approval ratings below 50%. This historical pattern suggests that Obama would need to see his job approval rating climb to 50% to be in a comfortable position for re-election…. [W]here Obama stands by next month may be an important indicator of his ultimate re-election chances.”
~Eowyn
I don’t know where they polled but it is inconceiveable to me that this is true. I admire the way Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann and Senator Demint refused to endorse anyone on Gretchen’s show on Fox. They insisted that once the dust was settled Republicans would rally around the candidate. Defeating Mr. soetero is the most important goal. Senator DeMint also stressed the need for a Republican Senate so they can accomplish something without Mr. Reid in power.
They were never Republicans from the get go…they were moderate Democrats, who thought they were Republicans. Anyone who believes Obama deserves a second chance and claim to be Republican are not Republicans.
They are RINOs. And crazy at that…
Ha, just got back from running an errand…got two thumbs up from truck drivers on my bumper sticker (my dog has created more shovel ready jobs than Obama)!
Eo, you are correct, this is insanity, but it’s also terminal stupidity. As a prison guard once told me, he’d told more than one prisoner on suicide watch that “Suicide is a permanent answer for a temporary problem.” The same counsel applies here, I think.
I read this on WND and wrote a comment to Wenzel, the company who gathered whatever information they gathered and came to this conclusion, saying that I didn’t feel their information was accurate.
In my own experience, as a pre Obama Democrat and delegate for Hillary ( don’t throw anything at me! ) who had an epiphany and complete change of heart and mind and hasn’t voted for a Dem since…….I find it hard to believe that any one self identifying as a Republican now would move towards Obama who has been an unmitigated disaster.
I am associated with several online political communities of others, like myself, who previously identified themselves as liberal or moderate leaning and have taken a journey similar to mine.
Anecdotally I have heard many, many people speak of how they voted for Obama but definitely won’t again……….including several good friends.
I don’t dispute that there is difficulty coalescing a majority at the moment of the Republican Party for one candidate but I hardly see anyone going TOWARDS Obama, it seems the conversation is who is more Conservative, not less…..and certainly not more Socialist in their direction!
I say poppycock.
welcome to the side that sucks (see Bill Whittle:Afterburner) Artist…
come on now people obama does not deserve a second term where were they polling the local insane asylum? lets not give the worst president in history more time to destroy america one and done go on home obama kenya is welcomeing you
If only Kenya were, Igor, it would be a Heaven-sent blessing to our nation! If the Obamamama returned there I predict within one year he’d renew the MauMau civil war and killings, all for their own good, of course!
I hate to be “Debby Downer” here, but I could see this. Hear me out. I am in my late 20′s so when Obama ran the first time I was in the last year of college.(I was a professional college student-don’t judge me). All of my hubby and my friends were Christians Conservatives, or were at least raised that way. There were 4 of us girls living in a house together, all from the panhandle, all in conservative sororities and all Christian. We all voted for Bush, both times. 2008, 1 out of 4 voted against Obama. Me. My husband and I are the only ones out of our so called group, who were not on the Obama band wagon. The majority of my generation do not have a foundation. They do not know why they believe what they believe. They fold when it comes to what they believe and just go with what is socially acceptable or what looks good on the outside. Say what you want, but the people we were friends with were a Republican candidate’s “For Sure” votes. Kids of Ranchers, Bank owners, farmers, John Deere owners. We are talking tractor driving, horse riding, cow tipping, chicken fried steak eating, gun owning cling to your Bible type people. I think we have forgotten the Obama Campaign Train and just how powerful it truly is.
Your honesty and lack of bias is a very good indicator of your character, which I’m sure is excellent in may more ways! Be assured that your candor is a saving grace. Now if only 100 million more could do the same…. Few of us can admit we erred; most will repeat and repeat until it’s too late.
Thank you for your very kind words. I deeply appreciate them! I just hope that I am wrong about this issue!
I caught this on Drudge earlier.
Not sure I’m buying it, as it has the scent of having been juiced about it.
What I find truly distressing is that 47% of the government-educated, American Idol-watching, People Magazine-reading dumbMass sheeple still approve of what this fraud of a POTUS is doing to our America.
This country has been dumbed down to the point of rank stoopidity.
And that is no accident.
-Dave
They RINOs, in a coma for the last four years or both?
Silly non factual piece. It claims Obama’s approval rating is below historical reelection standard at 47% yet Ronald Reagan’s approval rating average for 1984 was LOWER at 45% due to the lingering impacts of his 1982 recession when unemployment went even higher an it did in the 2007 Bush-GOP Recession. You can’t get away with making up claims in the age of the intertubes. You will be found out.
You have been found out. You are not welcome here. This new IP address of yours — your 3rd? 4th? 5th? — will also be banned. Why do you left-wingers insist on commenting on a conservative blog? I wouldn’t waste whatever little spare time and energy I have going onto liberal sites. You must have a lot of time to waste.
The polls are about a fictional president and although it seems gloomy, they will shrivel up and disappear the moment the plug is pulled on Obama. If the GOP candidates plan to unseat him, then why don’t they go for the jugular? Is he really so scary that noone dares to have him impeached for valid reasons, or question his sanity? Seriously, we are under the gun, and that’s an understatement! We are very fortunate that Putin is sending warships to Syria and Lavrox to Syria and China is refusing to apply the sanctions Obama is asking for against importing Iranian oil. There are indications that the Syrian rebels are to be “militarized” by a coalition of the US? and who else? France? Germany? Italy?
The reports of the violence are being tampered with by the Syrian opposition office in London, why is it in London, since when was London the location of choice for rebellious insurgents funded by who? composed of mercenaries and Syrians? Surely this is questionable.
It is really difficult to concentrate on the polls that show Obama to be the favorite in this forthcoming election, when it seems that the USA that we thought we were living in is swept aside whenever a war crops up or a bailout for a foreign country is required and gets top billing when we have people literally starving on the streets. Food stamps are not the answer so that people get the right nutrition, especially of the sort that Michelle Obama advocates. Unemployment benefits do not give people the incentive they need to be creative and productive and want to live decent Christian lives.
Cutting the teachers pay, and condensing school districts, shutting down hospitals, discouraging doctors from practicing social medecine, and imposing all manner of austerity policies will not make the polls any more meaningful. Yes we do need a spiritual awakening, and we can be praying for that hard and asking God for wisdom as he says we can in the Book of James, but we can apply the wisdom he has already gifted us with to realise that the monetary system that we fought the War of Independence to get away from, has a stranglehold on this nation, and on the EU and to a slightly lesser extent to Russia and China. It is a dead system and God has given us the brains and the memory capabilities to learn our republic’s history, and to learn from the past mistakes and also from the past successes of this great sovreign republic. To diminish the needs of the people and trump those needs by bailing out and supporting and listening to the reports from Wall Street is not what Independence is all about.
It does not matter whether they are TRUE republicans or not. What matters is that the majority of this generation could careless about government. Scarlet Johansen, famous actress, came out yesterday and attacked Santorum for wearing sweater vests. She is also a strong Obama supporter. That is something covered on MTV News, meaning that that is the depth of politics the majority of voters 18-30 yr age range are getting. That is a huge amount of votes. Why do you think our presidental candidates now hit Late Night talkshows and Saturday Night Live? In the history of the USA when have you ever seen the First Lady demonstrate on Al Broker how she might punch her husband on the TODAY show? Obama’s rating are slowly improving b/c he is beginning to campaign and so is Michelle. She has also began doing guest spots on Disney tween sitcoms, and they were both on the David Letterman show last month.
You might watch these interviews at Yale University in this short special from last night . My little brother is attending a big conservative college right now, and it is the same there as it is at Yale.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1443712176001/watters-world-sex-week-at-yale/
I do not believe that for 10 seconds.
Ron Paul 2012