JaggedEdge
04-15-2010, 09:44 PM
According to a new poll, Ron Paul and Obama are in a dead heat in a hypothetical 2012 presidential poll. To bad Ron Paul keeps insisting he has no plans to run in 2012...
Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is â?? virtually dead even.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds Obama with 42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent (11%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.
Ask the Political Class (http://www.lewrockwell.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2010/65_now_hold_populist_or_mainstream_views), though, and itâ??s a blowout. While 58% of Mainstream voters favor Paul, 95% of the Political Class vote for Obama.
But Republican voters also have decidedly mixed feelings about Paul, who has been an outspoken critic of the party establishment.
Obama earns 79% support from Democrats, but Paul gets just 66% of GOP votes. Voters not affiliated with either major party give Paul a 47% to 28% edge over the president.
Paul, a anti-big government libertarian who engenders unusually strong feelings among his supporters, was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. But he continues to have a solid following, especially in the growing Tea Party movement.
Election 2012: Barack Obama 42%, Ron Paul 41%: Rasmussen Reports (http://www.lewrockwell.com/pr/rasmussen-paul-vs-obama.html)
Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is â?? virtually dead even.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds Obama with 42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent (11%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.
Ask the Political Class (http://www.lewrockwell.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2010/65_now_hold_populist_or_mainstream_views), though, and itâ??s a blowout. While 58% of Mainstream voters favor Paul, 95% of the Political Class vote for Obama.
But Republican voters also have decidedly mixed feelings about Paul, who has been an outspoken critic of the party establishment.
Obama earns 79% support from Democrats, but Paul gets just 66% of GOP votes. Voters not affiliated with either major party give Paul a 47% to 28% edge over the president.
Paul, a anti-big government libertarian who engenders unusually strong feelings among his supporters, was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. But he continues to have a solid following, especially in the growing Tea Party movement.
Election 2012: Barack Obama 42%, Ron Paul 41%: Rasmussen Reports (http://www.lewrockwell.com/pr/rasmussen-paul-vs-obama.html)