Here is the breakdown.
Against Mitt Romney, who will surely emerge from the primary much more battered, bruised, and politically damaged than he is right now, President Obama polls at 4.3% higher in a potential 2012 election match up.
Against Libertarian favorite Ron Paul, President Obama enjoys a 9.8% lead in the polls.
Against "Let God handle it" Rick Perry, President Obama maintains a very comfortable 11.6% lead.
Tim "TimPaw" Pawlenty is nowhere even close to providing a challenge with Obama leading him at 12.3%.
Michele Bachmann is trailing right behind Mr. Ho-hum with the President enjoying a 12.4% lead over the batshit crazy, "pray away the gay" lady.
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(You might as well get used to seeing the picture above, because if Huntsman looks like he is actually presenting a challenge to any of the other GOP candidates, you will see it showing up in third party TV ads over and over again.)
Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich share the seventh spot, both trailing the President with an embarrassing 14.7%.
Okay well that is just about everybody, and NOBODY (With the possible exception of Mitt Romney) has any real shot against our President in a head to head match up.
Wait! Somebody IS missing. (Oh my God, who could possibly be lower than 14.7% this early in the polling? They must have ZERO name recognition or something!)
In fact it is lower. MUCH lower.
In a match up with President Obama, everyone's favorite teabagging reality star, trails by a whopping 20%.
That's right Palin-bots, your idol trails the President by 20% and is in absolutely the LAST place on the list of potential GOP Presidential contenders for 2012, when it comes to viability.
You know somebody, the person's name escapes me right now, said that "2012 can't come soon enough."
I could not agree more.
(P.S. I just noticed that Santorum is not even on the list so I am guessing that he polled even lower than Snowdrift Snooki. Ouch, that has to hurt!)
Pathetic palin will never be president. America already rejected her in 2008. She is not good enough for the country. She has about 50,000 actual supporters so not even a half of a half of 1 percent of the population. She is pathetic and a loser. She's a horrible mother with zero skill in anything except lying.
ReplyDeleteas long as diebold has the voting machines, nothing is a lock!
ReplyDeleteGryphen-PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE check out Joe Walsh over at Wonkette.The douche bag talks smack,and yet the SOB owes his ex-wife over a hundred grand in back child support.Republican hypocrisy at it's finest.You must do a write up on that!!
ReplyDeleteYeah, but unless we get rid of the teabagger trolls in Congress, just what can Obama accomplish?
ReplyDelete@9:41 Hahahahahahaha! That's for sure.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Bachman is just so...so...adorable...such a cute little Shirley Temple adult woman.
ReplyDeleteIt's just so precious that she wants to be president...awww...
The GOP screwed themselves. They signed a Faustian bargain with the teabaggers. They traded the party's soul for the feverish, brainless support of the teabaggers. Now they cannot escape the obdurate idiocy of that tribe of mental pygmies.
ReplyDeleteI find it telling that Huntsman, who is probably the GOP's best candidate, doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being nominated.
Ron Paul won't be nominated, but if he was, I think he'd lose by about 25% to Obama. Paul is a racist prick to the core. He has never adequately renounced or explained his racist newsletters. If those became a campaign issue, he would be hounded out of the race.
The disconnect between the GOP and the general electorate is illustrated in how differently both groups view Bachmann and Pawlenty. Bachmann is all the rage in the GOP, but she has all the popularity of intestinal cramps amongst the general public. Pawlenty fares slightly better among the general public but in the GOP, he polls about at the same level as projectile diarrhea.
The GOP is simply out of touch with America, with the world, and with the 21st century. They are a bunch of regressive asshats who long for a time that never was.
I hope they nominate Bachmann , Perry, or Palin. Maybe then the party will implode and disappear forever. I think they are beyond reform, and until they disintegrate, we will not be able to have a better alternative emerge from its wake.
From your mouth to Thor's ear, Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteBut we can't get cocky about it. The electoral map is extremely precarious and the revelations of likely voting results manipulation in Ohio 2004 makes the future all the more uncertain. The right wing is so threatened by an exceptionally centrist, intelligent, articulate, good-natured, NEGRO in the White House that it's hard to imagine how low they won't sink to defeat him.
Let's wait for November 7, 2012 to celebrate. There's so much work to do before then and, btw, your blog and your merry band of followers is part of that work. Thanks for doing what you do.
If that Idiot should run for the WH, the photo of her posted on this story should be plastered on every billboard in America. It shows Palin's true nature.
ReplyDeleteTo 10:18 Anonymous: Your analysis of the current GOP is right on the money. The "I want my country back" crowd is out of step and out of touch with the reality of the modern world. They're truly being "left behind." And I agree it might do that regressive bunch of numbskulls good to push one of their more radical rightwingers into the GOP nomination--Perry, palin, or Bachmann--and really get crushed in the general election.
ReplyDeleteAgree with Beldar. This is WAY too early and WAY too close. Obama's approval rating needs to go up quite a bit. Also, the top poll on RealClearPolitics shows Obama VRS a generic Republican with the R in the lead. I don't get that, given all the other polls.
ReplyDeletePeople, do NOT click on that link http://imgur.com/1Gjjl
it is an advertisement for an image sharing website.
Gryphen, you need to review your posters better.
Just sayin'.
It's completely false tripe like this from the Des Moines Register that continues
ReplyDeleteto make the media look like they're either Palinbots or just too lazy to do some basic research.
" When Palin is included as an option in polls on the presidential field,
she often receives more support than many of the announced candidates."
So says Jason Clayworth .
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110728/NEWS09/107280316/-1/gallery_array/Palin-speak-event-Waukee-Sept-3
Say Whaaaat ?
What polls ?
Name one Mr Clayworth , one single poll where Palin has ever come out on top.
I double dog dare you.
Hi Sarah, Welcome Back!
ReplyDeleteQuick question, Where's Trig's birth certificate?
I can't help smiling at the thought that Rick "google me!!" Santorum wakes up each morning with his iPod alarm set to "Hail To The Chief" and whistles engagingly in the bathroom mirror at his still boyishly handsome image as he whips the short end of his silk tie confidently thru the air to create an appealing Windsor knot perfectly centered above his collar. Then he picks up his once fashionable - now tattered and worn - leather briefcase and bursts out of his house with a smile on his face, a confident spring in his step and heads out to spend yet another day trundling forlornly door-to-door asking strangers to support one of the most pathetic, ill-conceived, ill-fated presidential campaigns in modern times. I salute you, plucky Rick Santorum! Huzzah!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to visit urbandictionary.com to find out once and for all what the heck 'santorum' is....
I heart Gasman's heart.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, Gasman, you nailed it! I must remember not to take a sip of soda before I read your comments.
ReplyDeleteSouthern Virginia Voter
Unfortunately, polls are historically proven to be generally bullshit and almost utterly pointless.
ReplyDeleteBut one would certainly pray THIS one is accurate.
Sorry to piss in everyone's cornflakes, but I don't want us to be as batshit delusional as the Sea of Pee people... It's fun to see PAYlin get egg on her face, just don't take too much stock in it's veracity.
That said though, I definitely don't believe she has a snowball's chance and regardless of what the true reality of the poll numbers are, I have no difficulty believing she would be near the bottom of it.
I'm concerned about the voting rights in some states for the upcoming election. It's been written of late that some are requiring different types of ID and many black and other residents don't necessarily have it or it is difficult for them to obtain - lack of cars, etc. It is Republican led State Legislatures that have made these changes.
ReplyDeleteTo me, it's obviously a way to eliminate or decrease votes for President Obama. It seem so blatant to me.
My campaign button:
ReplyDeleteObama 2012
(Seriously, look around.)
you are on a great roll,Gryphen, nice work as always.
ReplyDeleteBut we can't be complacent. We need to be energized and fight for our President's reelection, or somebody will slip through. We mustn't be too sure of ourselves. The republican states are working hard to disenfranchise likely democratic voters too.
ReplyDeleteLet's let them nominate Tpaw so we can be subjected to endless soundless ads showing the 35W bridge hitting the water just like the American economy would fall under his watch. The guy had a balanced budget mandate from the voters and yet he left us billions in the hole. What a prick. We are still suffering from his lack of fiscal responsibility
ReplyDeleteMore bad news for Sarah. Week # 2 gross for The Undefeated DOWN by 60%. And that's with four more theaters showing it than in week one.
ReplyDeletehttp://boxofficemojo.com/weekly/chart/?yr=2011&wk=29&p=.htm
Hey Bannon, AMC is on the phone... they want their screens back.
Where's mealy-mouth sarah?
ReplyDeleteHas anyone seen the slithering ditherer lately?
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Hey, you can thank John McCain for the dumbing down of the republican candidates when he picked Sarah Palin as his VP. He gave all those right-wing nut-jobs a voice and helped create the teabaggers.
ReplyDeleteGood news, I guess...but the fact that someone as insane as Bachmann doesn't stack up more like 100 to one against a President who has weathered the worst storm EVER levelled at one, is truly pitiful.
ReplyDeleteReporter (to Russian mobster being led to airplane to be deported): Are you happy to be going back to Russia?
Mobster: Hell no! I LOVE America...its so easy to steal here. The Americans are just so stupid. You can even steal an ELECTION here!
Laura Ingraham pushes back on Sarah Palin primary threat
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60238.html
Gasman, love your used of adjectives! obdurate idiocy, feckless morons...
ReplyDeleteI agree with others, we still have a long way to go and can't be complacent, the polls can change depending on some situation that happens and when people don't THINK and merely react impatiently (2010 midterms anyone?), and the Koch bros et. al, haven't put all their money into this yet.
Why do you censor some comments and allow others to go through? What is your criteria for rejecting them?
ReplyDeleteSlightly O/T:
ReplyDeleteLaura Ingraham criticizing the Quitler: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60238.html
(h/t to Politicus commenter for 'Quitler'!)
Aurora
Herman Cain COULD take Obama to the cleaners. He has life and business experience. Obama had NOTHING as a candidate. People forget that too easily. Obama also had ONLY talking points and no real thoughts or voiced plans.
ReplyDeleteI will say this again, I will sneak in and streak through the next inaugural ball if the DEMs successfully convert the US to socialism.
Obama has now proven he will turn on his own party and constituents JUST to end fighting. That is not a leader. He doesn't know what he wants. If he knew what was best for the country and was even a decent leader (think Clinton and nafta), he'd have little opposition.
And you cal stop blaming Race because that's getting old.
@1:00 - Your lame socialism meme went stale last century. PS - No one wants to see you streak. You look terrible with or without clothes.
ReplyDeleteO/T: A little something to make you smile. Note the title of this article about Julianne Moore's 2 new movies:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-0731-dean-richards-20110730,0,6585730.column
by the by, the Massey brothers are in AK as we type. And Bristol will be in LA for 2 months.
ReplyDeleteLOL.... Retard Sarah, you can forget about being POTUS....
ReplyDeleteHey Retard, I've heard names being thrown around for vp candidates and guess what, your name is not on anybody's short list or long list!
Nobody wants to try McCain's Hell Sarah Pass, that play does not work. They seen what you did to McCain's campaign.
Since we are on the subject of POTUS, I doubt anybody wants you to endorse them.
BIOTCH you are done, you’re just not smart enough to realize that and walk away.
@1 p.m. Herman Cain HERMAN CAN?
ReplyDeletehahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahaha
OK, seriously hahahaha, really, hahaha.
How about legislative experience, and those degrees after Obama's name?
It sure beats runnin' a pizza joint.
Apparently today Rush Slimeball was discussing the gridlock in Congress, the freshmen teaparty, and how the "RILL amerucuns" on the right have been maligned by the GOP and the Dems.
ReplyDeleteHe then pronounced that "We are all Sarah Palin now".
http://www.therightscoop.com/rush-we-are-all-sarah-palin-now/
What in hell does that mean?
I never asked my daughter to shake her ass on DWTS.
I didn't lie, cheat, and, and quit my job 1/2 way through after committing to my latest contract.
I didn't run through 5 colleges to get a degree.
And I SURE AS HELL didn't target
democrats with rifle sites on a map, and accuse people of blood libel. Like PAYlin even knew what that was until some rabid asshole stupidly told her that might be a way to strike back at her accusers.
C4P is all a-twitter thinking that if Rush might support Caribou Barbie, then she'll have a chance at being President.
Snooki, if you or your minions are reading this, just get it through your head that your rabid ultra right christian terrorist fans only comprise about 5% of the USA voters at most. YOu still have to convince ALL the rest of the Repubs, and 70% of the independents to ever have a shot at winning a general election.
And then, there's the books coming out this fall, and Shailey, and probably more of your scandals ready to get revealed. Karma is a bitch;
You can cheat, lie, steal, fuck other people's spouses, and break the law for a long time, but eventually you will get found out.
Anonymous @ 1:00pm--
ReplyDeleteI don't know why I bother responding to you since if you were truly interested in discussion, you would have done enough research to realize what a lame argument you make.
I don't particularly care who has business experience. It seems to me a bunch of folks with "business experience" had to be bailed out by the US tax-payers shortly before the last election.j Why would I want a business man at the helm of our country? This is a government, not a business and it is stupid to think you can run a government like a for-profit business. I would rather have someone versed in social service--you know, someone who has actually helped someone other than himself or his stock-holders. So keep your "business experience"--who gives a rat's ass?
You demonstrate the usual low-information voter meme of democratic=socialist. Please learn of what you speak. Just because a government helps out the less fortunate of its citizens does not make it bad. Some might even think that is what we form governments to do. In a civilized world, at any rate.
Obama has shown grace under pressure, calm in the face of hysteria and most certainly has done so in the face of the rabid opposition at every step by those who can't stand to see him in the White House. He has virtually been attacked for every blessed thing he does or says but you don't hear him whining about the media or the "haters."
That impresses the hell out of me, and I will do whatever I can to see he stays in the White House until 2016.
Damn Palin just tweeted again...she's such a smart ass. She LOVES the tea party fucking with the country. It's her style. Full on drama and chaos.
ReplyDelete"@BarackObama wants us to contact Congress. Great idea! Tell them to rein in our dangerously unsustainable debt to protect our credit rating."
She just doesn't get IT. Our credit rating will go down if we don't increase the limit. It shouldn't even be tied to any budget amendment. What the tea party is demanding is unprecedented. It's purely political and not good for the country.
I wouldn't worry about what Rush Limbaugh says regarding Palin. The majority of us already know her too damned well.
ReplyDeleteRemember, she is on the extreme right and those 'reg' Repubs will make sure she doesn't get very far.
I cannot imagine how she is going to rebuttttt all the stuff that will be coming out about her in the recent months - WITH PROOF SOURCES.
She's dull, onery, evil, a liar and terribly uneducated (I suspect McCain 'made' her appear as a college graduate (Idaho). She'll go nowhere.
Unfortunately, Obama just dropped to his record low approval rating. 40% according to Gallup.
ReplyDeleteThe worst part is that things don't look like they're gonna get any better on the economic front. I was watching Morning Joe this morning, and the guy who released the latest GDP numbers called them "shocking" and was really talking about dour things are.
Not to mention, if our rating is lowered, that's even worst news.
I know the Republican candidates all suck, and some of them seem like massive jokes, but I really am feeling more depressed about Obama's prospects than I have in awhile. I always felt certain he'd be re-elected, but if the economy keeps sliding, I really don't think so. If he's at 40% and we haven't even seen the worst yet....what's going to happen?
For his re-election chances, I always counted on the economy picking up, at least somewhat. Now that looks like that's not gonna happen.
there is not a snowball's chance in hell of Cain taking Obama to the cleaners. The man is profoundly stupid and proves it every time he opens his mouth.
ReplyDeleteHe has not been employed in 6 years.
1:00pm anon troll we get it you don't like black people. Could you be any more obvious? Has the SS come knocking yet? You sound dangerous. Oh wait they won't knock, your door will be busted down at 4 am. Hahahaha GL w/ that.
ReplyDeleteWillard Mitt committed a felony when he voted for Scott Brown. He owned houses in NH and CA, I believe, where he lived, but he allged living in his son's basement so he could vote for Brown.
ReplyDeleteOMG, she's entering one of her manic phases. She just tweeted again for Pres. Obama to #womanup and lead. What a filthy bitch.
ReplyDeleteRush: College Dropout with drug addition history and multiple ex wives (and apparently ED--caught sneaking Viagra across US border)
ReplyDeleteBeck: College Dropout with drug addition history, mental health history, left his first wife with handicapped child
No wonder these guys think Sarah is smart
anon @ 1:53
ReplyDelete'bout the only way the economy can pickup is if somebody with some balls, that isn't "owned" by a corporate master, could get these koch-suckin' corporations to pay their fair share of fukin' TAXES, ANY OF 'EM AND ALL OF 'EM
To paraphrase Gryphen, after Gingrich's thirty years in politics, you can well imagine how thrilled I am that he is tied with the Godfather's Pizza guy. Untie him and let him disappear.
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 1:32 pm -- Well said, thanks.
ReplyDeleteTo Sarah Troll @ 1:00 pm
ReplyDeleteThere are those on the left who hold beliefs completely opposing yours. They believe that rich Republicans exploit their poorly educated rabid supporters to purposely drain this economy.
http://www.juancole.com/2011/07/top-stories-more-important-than-debt-limit-kabuki.html
"So everything unfolding in Washington was planned out in a room in 2001, and is going according to plan."
"Starving education of funding ensures that people are too ignorant to figure out this scam. They won’t even be able to distinguish between one-time stimulus deficits like Obama’s, and long-term structural deficits of the sort passed by Bush."
"The reason that the Republicans deliberately destroyed the balanced budget and created unprecedented government debt was precisely in hopes that at some point they could use the debt as an excuse to destroy social security, medicare, and myriads of educational and health programs."
Which seems more reasonable? That a person appointed by Pillsbury executives to head Godfather's Pizza can rescue our nation's listing ship, or that someone like President Obama is better equipped to overcome this country's challenges? President Obama has proven he's able to juggle all the balls thrown his way by his enemies and by events, and isn't sidetracked by outright bigotry (Herman Cain vs. Muslims) and doesn't resort to name-calling childishness (attaching a "socialist" label to everything POTUS does).
And the band plays on....
ReplyDeleteBoehner caved to the tea party idjiots and coupled a balanced budget amendment to his new plan re: raising the debt limit.
The man had the gall to sing "Zippity do dah, zippity ay, my oh my what a wonderful day". So, basically, he's proven once and for all that he's uwilling and unable to lead.
This juvenile prank will ensure Obama not only gets re-elected, but that the GOP is, for all intents and purposes, permanently broken. I don't care what Obama's ratings are or how the economy tanks because the fault rightfully lies squarely on the shoulders of every member of the GOP who voted this in.
You don't fark with America's credit ratings, Social Security and Disablility recipents, and especially the veterans and have the right to call yourselves "conservative" nor "patriots".
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And to the "person" concerned with why some comments don't get published while whining it isn't fair, your fracking comment got through, now what do you have to say?
Let me guess:
This I know, the Palins are a close knit family, Bristol is a good girl, she's doing a great job raising Tripp while being a single mother. Her face looks the same as before, and she did not get plastic surgery. Levi is a horrible, evil person, and Bristol is right to not let him see Tripp as often as he's entitled. Sarah eats skittles and farts rainbows and is the best mom in the whole world. Her movie is a huge success and she has a very thick skin.
Am I close?, Troll?
@1:00pm
ReplyDelete"Herman Cain COULD take Obama to the cleaners."
I have to agree with your assessment here. And while Mr. Cain runs in to pick up the dry cleaning, President Obama can be getting some work done in the back of the limo. Perhaps there's an opening at the White House motor pool Mr. Cain could apply for and fulfill his wistful dream of working at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave...