Elwar
06-23-2010, 11:37 AM
http://www.varight.com/news/ron-paulgary-johnson-in-2012/
Public Policy Polling ran a poll on 2012 preferences (Thanks to the Humble Libertarian for the original article). It’s mostly bad news for the GOP. No one beats Obama in a two person race.
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PPP to its credit added Congressman Ron Paul (no “former”, he’s still a member of Congress!) and he did almost as well as Gingrich – President Obama draws 46 and Paul 36%. But the polling shows that Paul does best among independents:
One thing that’s very interesting about these numbers is that Ron Paul is the most popular out of the whole group with independents. They see him favorably by a 35/25 margin. The only other White House hopeful on positive ground with them is Romney at a +2 spread and they’re very negative on the rest: -5 for Huckabee, -16 for Gingrich and Palin, and -17 for Obama. All five of the possible GOP contenders lead Obama with independents, but Paul does so by the widest margin at 46-28.
The polling analysis suggests something radical: That Paul run as an independent in 2012.
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I agree with PPP that Paul should run as a Republican with his libertarian colleague, former Governor Gary Johnson as VP. (I said exactly this in January at Conflicted Libertarian) They should run together in 2012 in the GOP primaries with the mission of restoring constitutional government. It would be exciting and would set up Johnson for a run in 2016.
Public Policy Polling ran a poll on 2012 preferences (Thanks to the Humble Libertarian for the original article). It’s mostly bad news for the GOP. No one beats Obama in a two person race.
...
PPP to its credit added Congressman Ron Paul (no “former”, he’s still a member of Congress!) and he did almost as well as Gingrich – President Obama draws 46 and Paul 36%. But the polling shows that Paul does best among independents:
One thing that’s very interesting about these numbers is that Ron Paul is the most popular out of the whole group with independents. They see him favorably by a 35/25 margin. The only other White House hopeful on positive ground with them is Romney at a +2 spread and they’re very negative on the rest: -5 for Huckabee, -16 for Gingrich and Palin, and -17 for Obama. All five of the possible GOP contenders lead Obama with independents, but Paul does so by the widest margin at 46-28.
The polling analysis suggests something radical: That Paul run as an independent in 2012.
...
I agree with PPP that Paul should run as a Republican with his libertarian colleague, former Governor Gary Johnson as VP. (I said exactly this in January at Conflicted Libertarian) They should run together in 2012 in the GOP primaries with the mission of restoring constitutional government. It would be exciting and would set up Johnson for a run in 2016.