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bobbyw24
08-23-2011, 01:16 PM
Tuesday, August 23, 2011


A generic Republican candidate now holds a five-point advantage over President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up for the week ending Sunday, August 21.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds the generic Republican earning 48% of the vote, while the president picks up support from 43%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/generic_presidential_ballot/election_2012_generic_presidential_ballot

fisharmor
08-23-2011, 01:18 PM
Yeah, this is the part I don't get... you'd think that every generic Republican and his mother would have declared their intention 6 months ago.
It's the same situation as in 2008, only in reverse: the Republicans would have to run a known pedophile to lose.
Why aren't they killing each other to get in this race? Why all the last minute grandstanding?

iamse7en
08-23-2011, 01:34 PM
Why doesn't Ron Paul just change his name to Generic Republican?

harikaried
08-23-2011, 01:47 PM
Why doesn't Ron Paul just change his name to Generic Republican?
Because Ron Paul gets more votes from Independents and Democrats than Generic Republican. And that's why he's the conservative that can beat Obama in 2012.