The President is doing VERY WELL in key states for 2012

[bigdarryl]

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2011/01/obama-doing-well-in-key-states.html

[jaxx]

1. Very well indeed.

K&R

[InvisibleTouch]

2. Happy to hear that. :) n/t

[bluestateguy]

3. Nevada would be a steeper climb with Romney as the opponent

Large Mormon population there.

On the other hand, his Mormonism could cause a lot of voter abstentions from Southern evangelicals, thereby putting states like Georgia and Texas in play.

[elocs]

7. From conservative evangelicals everywhere who believe Mormonism is a cult

that masquerades as Christian and therefore is of the devil. Republican candidates need every single evangelical vote they can get.

[totodeinhere]

11. And conservative evangelicals are not also a cult? They are just as bad as the Mormons.

I will get a lot of glee from seeing these two degenerate groups duke it out.

[elocs]

12. In the context of mainline Christianity, conservative evangelicals are not considered to be a cult.

You would be very hard pressed to find any major Christian denomination, even liberal ones, who would claim that conservative evangelicals are a cult. They would disagree with them, but not consider them to be a cult.

The salient point is that Republicans need all the conservative evangelical votes they can get and many of those voters will not support a Mormon when push comes to vote.

[MadMaddie]

4. I think that those numbers will incrementally increase

as Americans start feeling the impact of Republican led local government across the country. I also believe the U.S House of Representatives will come to a standstill because of Boehner. My predicition for Boehner is that he will start missing House responsibilities and it will get more obvious that he had no intention of actually working.

[nxylas]

5. This needs to be a major Dem talking point

The Rude Pundit has eviscerated this do-nothing congress in his inimitable style (http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2011/01/house-republicans-waste-our-time.html), but he's not exactly what you would call mainstream - you need a constitution of iron to read some of his posts! "Boehner is lazy" needs to be the subject of jokes on late night talk shows and in newspaper cartoons.

[MadMaddie]

6. Oh I love the Rude and read him everyday..

No nonsense and to the point

[nxylas]

9. Yeah, but he's not to everybody's taste

A lot of the stuff he writes deserves to go viral.

[LeftyAndProud60]

8. this is actually scary. I think Jeb Bush could win Fl and Ohio if he ran.

and Va amd NC as well

[displacedvermoter]

10. How well are those states doing now, perhaps that is a more

important question?

[Phx_Dem]

13. And he hasn't even started campaigning yet.

:7

[Jakes Progress]

14. Whew! And I thought we would have to really have change

to be successful.

Best road to success is keep on keeping on. No need for all that change and crap. Just stay the course and stay in power.

[opihimoimoi]

15. hIS NEW POLL NUMBERS ARE CLIMBING...oops

[trayNTP]

16. Any poll that lists only "well-known" Republicans as Obama's opponents is trash.

The pollsters know this, but that's the only way for the Republicans to get enough support to make the polls look credible. They know that campaigns rarely go as expected, so Gingrich, Palin, Huckabee, have less of a chance of winning the nomination, than say...John Thune.

Wait until we have Obama and Thune standing on the stage in debates, and then see how the polls look after more people are aware of who the real GOP 2012 nominee is.

Unless Thune has had an affair that can eat up his 2011 coverage, he's going to be the guy. By the time debates and campaigning are done, these polls you all constantly slobber over will look like the artwork of a 3 year old.

Well-intentioned, but not very realistic.

The "expected" candidate rarely ever gets nominated.

The establishment planned on this Thune-Obama match-up, eventually.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45697.html