CBS Poll: Romney Bests Obama, Paul Comes Close

[ProSense]

CBS Poll: Romney Bests Obama, Paul Comes Close

A new national poll from CBS News shows President Obama down two points to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in a direct matchup, 47 – 45. Other Republican candidates compete against Obama as well with Rep. Ron Paul only down a single point at 46 – 45, and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum with only a four point deficit at 47 – 43.

CBS analysis said it’s all about independent voters in the general election data, as no candidate (President Obama or any GOP one) seems to be able to attract a significant portion of the other sides' party faithful. From CBSnews.com:

If the general election were held today, it would break down along highly partisan lines no matter who gets the Republican nomination. A large percentage of Republicans rally be hind any of the Republican nominees, though Romney does the best among registered Republicans with 90% of their vote. About nine in 10 Democrats pick Barack Obama over any of the Republican candidates. Independents show a preference for both Mitt Romney and Ron Paul over Barack Obama, though independents choose the President over the rest of the field.

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[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Yuck

What is it that people (i.e. Independents) like about Romney? Paul?

I wouldn't expect those results to stand for long.

[FrenchieCat]

3. That's alright......

Because those folks will get theirs!
They will be served...although, unfortunatly,
so will we.

[barbtries]

2. i don't believe it.

is this country that stupid really??

[jberryhill]

4. YES

W won (or got close enough to steal) TWICE.

[dawg]

6. Yes. Yes it is.

Hopefully we will win, but it will be close.

[tblue37]

17. If it is close, they can steal it, so it had better NOT be close.

I guarantee Obama had a much bigger mandate in 2008 that we were told, and we also probably won a lot more seats in both houses than we heard about!

[Jakes Progress]

28. Not can - will. They will steal it if it is anywhere near close.

[tblue37]

47. Absolutely! nt

[opihimoimoi]

8. Yes it is stupid....thanx to Fundamentalist Conservatives accumulating power over the long term

as in stacking the SCOTUS as they did = W for 8 disaster years

The SHALLOWEST PRESIDENT in US HISTORY.....canardly make sense ..does he?

Thats what Conservatism gets when it goes for SHALLOW

[barbtries]

10. i blame it on the media

and 8 years of the bush administration. jeez. it disgusts me.

[joshcryer]

13. Yes, part of the blame is on factionalizing progressives.

We'd be much stronger if the Democratic Party wasn't itself really three parties (conservatives, moderates, leftists).

[markpkessinger]

33. Sadly, yes. n/t

[asjr]

5. See BS.

[mvd]

7. Probably just a caucus/primaries bump.

Wait until Romney has to defend his flip flops and Wall Street record in debates with President Obama.

[ProSense]

14. Just think:

the Republican primary looks like it's coming down to a contest between a candidate who wants to send Americans back to Iraq and one who wants to send Americans back to the 19th century.

[mvd]

31. Romney would put us back to the 19th century in ways, too

He wants to end Medicare as we know it, is anti-union, wants lower taxes on the rich, is anti-choice.. he's very conservative in his latest positions, but best we don't tell Repukes that.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. Except, of course, that he might not have actually technically won the caucuses

Minor point, though.

[mvd]

30. Yeah, but the media spin is about

.. his "win." It was actually embarrassing for Romney.

[coalition_unwilling]

39. Wait until he has to defend what he did to his fucking dog, for Dog's sake:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1638065,00.html

Romney may have even run the car through the carwash while his dog was still in the carrier atop the roof:

https://www.facebook.com/DogsAgainstRomney

This message brought to you by the K-99%

[DevonRex]

9. Time to stop the circular firing squad.

And the RP coddling.

[spanone]

11. we got this same bullshit four years ago....don't buy it

[boxman15]

12. Polls like this are meaningless right now.

Wait till voters have a clear choice between Obama and Romney and any potential third partier. Then we can start to analyze these things.

[RBInMaine]

18. It is also corporate CBS BULLSHIT and no, it means NOTHING now.

[JoePhilly]

15. Obama will be fine.

The folks who are paying attention right now are folks who actually care what the GOP has to say ... once the GOP picks some one, the game will be very different.

Obama should win in a landslide, equal to, or larger than the way he beat McCain.

Unless Democrats get stuck in a circle jerk.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

19. From your mouth to God's ear!!!

[Autumn]

16. My ass

someone is fucking lying.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Damn too early, call me two months before the General

That is when polls start to matter, and anybody with half an inch of political sophistication knowns this. People, in general, do NOT plug into the election until six weeks prior to the election.

[markpkessinger]

35. +1 n/t

[1stlady]

22. Please

They said the same thing in 08 with John McCain. There were all these polls saying McCain will win because he attracts more independants. I remember it as if it were yesterday, because they had me a little worried with those polls and I was thinking Obama was going to lose. And like others have mentioned, the only poll that matters is the one before election day. Obama's going to destroy Mittens in the debates anyway, so I'm not worried.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

23. It's meaningless

Besides, no one is over 50%......a lot of undecided people stick with the incumbant, as long as things are not imploding and are getting better. Remember '04.

[sarcasmo]

24. How many Republicans will stay home if Romney wins the nomination.

[Ikonoklast]

40. And which one will mount a third-party campaign taking the right-wingers with them?

I see Ron Paul taking his loons on a tilt at the windmills type of tour with him.

They despise Romney.

[sarcasmo]

45. I agree the Paulbots won't vote for Romney.

[Angleae]

42. Very few. Their hatred of Obama will overrule their dislike of Romney.

[MjolnirTime]

25. The only purpose of this poll is to get Repigs to line up behind Romney.

It has no bearing on reality.

[marmar]

26. It's an early poll.....and most people aren't paying much attention, but.....

...... only a four-point deficit for SANTORUM?

[Kdillard]

27. It is early and Mitt has been campaigning. I wouldn't

pay attention to the polls until after the nomination,and the debates between whomever wins it and Obama happens.

[book_worm]

29. Don't panic! The GOP candidates are getting all the attention right now

and that is reflected.

[high density]

32. Wow, so the news is all Romney, all the time 24/7 and he only eeks out by 2pts?

Doesn't look good for him.

[marlakay]

34. This is all before pacs for Obama show Romney saying he likes to fire people

Just show that over and over throughout the country and Obama will win easy.

[graywarrior]

36. BS

[sadbear]

37. If the media reported now how it will be in November

They'll have nothing to talk about for the next 10 months.

[Karmadillo]

38. Maybe the party needs to go further right.

[The Genealogist]

41. I'm sure these margins are going to fluctuate over the next months

Of course people polled are more interested in Romney and Paul; the news does glowing stories on them, and spends a huge chunk of the news on them. After failing to properly report on the day's disgusting Repuke nonsense, they turn and crap all over President Obama, emphasizing how hard a battle it is going to be for him. But if those numbers are looking anything like that come September and October, and Romney or any of the other kkklown kkkar folk somehow gets elected, within 6 months people will be remembering the Obama presidency as a fantastic time for them. It is hard times right now, but with any one of these idiots in office, especially with the house and senate in Repuke hands, people are going to know a whole new level of suffering.

[bowens43]

43. I have been saying this all along

to the average american, Romney is a reasonable, likable alternative. Most Americans pay absolutely no attention to to politics. He looks and sounds presidential, that is all that's required.Although I think Obama will win,it won't be easy.

[chrisa]

44. The problem: Many Americans are convinced Obama has done something wrong,

but when you ask them what he did wrong, they have no idea.

[HughBeaumont]

46. Oh, they have an idea, all right.

They just can't tell you unless all the doors are locked.