Poll: Romney Would Beat Obama Now

McClatchy:

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's approval ratings have sunk to the lowest level of his presidency, so low that he'd lose the White House to Republican Mitt Romney if the election were held today, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

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Comments

[Lakesideboy]

05:06 PM on 12/14/2010

This is going to play out just as I had expected and posted previously. The Republicans could have easily helped Romney to win the last presidential election, however, Bush had screwed up so very badly that they needed a Democrat to take the heat.....Obama. This couldn't have been orchestrated any better than by Carl Rove.
Now that Obama has taken the blame by the racist, ignorant & greedy sector of our country for destroying the world in less than a year (please....are you awake now? stop watching Fox News) he's taken a big step, with Republicans fighting him all the way just to convey to the Fox News watchers that Obama is a bad man (bad Obama, bad Obama - shame on you), in helping to get this country back on it's feet. Somebody had to be the pawn and how perfect for the Republicans to have it be the first black president.
Now Romney is stepping up as the first Republican to "side" with Obama on the tax cuts in order to win the favor of perhaps the Obama voters?????
He will win the next presidential election just as this big grand GOP scheme had predicted.

[paulvard]

11:26 AM on 12/14/2010

I remember Gibb iritatingly said "those professional left". I don't think that's him talking but Obama. More and more Obama's nature is coming to focus. He is really a professor from Harvard with elitist, conservative leaning. A real republican. He happens to be black and people automatically attributes that he is a liberal. His health care legislation abolish public option and thus benefits the HMO companies. His howling about executive pay is just posturing. Nothing can be done about it. The bank still do it. All his appointments are from Wall street. When he retires he will comfortably nestle in the shadow of Wall street like Clinton. Romney looks better and better to me although my first choice is Bloomberg.

[tones]

01:18 PM on 12/13/2010

Every poll looks great for romney till it hits primary season and than he plummets.

[PrasadD]

11:59 AM on 12/13/2010

Don't worry, liberals will come back and vote for him. Where they go? What other choice the have?

[thnkfst]

02:29 AM on 12/14/2010

not to vote.

[rustysc]

11:17 AM on 12/13/2010

Maybe two days ago, polls change daily.

[seanj]

10:46 AM on 12/13/2010

The economy is not gonna get better. Obama is toast.

[blueballs]

11:12 AM on 12/13/2010

The economy is not the issue...it has and it will continue to improve. The issue is Obama's new found embrace of the right wing and disdain for his base. LBJ lost his base and became one and done and so did Bush 1. Obama will follow.

[seanj]

11:16 AM on 12/13/2010

unemployment and the debt mean no recovery.

[jmwtex]

10:18 AM on 12/13/2010

Sad that at this point, I do not care if Obama is not re-elected. I guess, I have come to realize what is the point of working to elect a democrat who, by his actions, gives credence to the Republican/Conservative world view. I can not put effort behind that again. What is scary, is that the prez probably does not realize that he is what he is doing.

[SteveDenver]

04:03 PM on 12/13/2010

In the case of Obama, this fortune cookie message brings it all home:
"An honest enemy is better than a false friend."

[jmwtex]

04:14 PM on 12/13/2010

I assume Obama is the false friend?? Just checking.

[hrc04]

09:43 AM on 12/13/2010

Yeah...we could have that election tomorrow, or at its regularly scheduled time in 2012, and Obama's not losing to Mitt.

[tcalger87]

02:56 AM on 12/13/2010

Silly and meaningless.

Until mid-Sept. 2008 polls had McCain leading Obama.

[Wuud52]

12:33 AM on 12/13/2010

He is not picking up an independents because is is not moving to the center. He is moving to the right. Obama started in the center, but was labeled an extreme leftist. Now, he is moving from the center left to the far right and losing Independent and Democratic support.

The left, the center, and even the center right want:
Tax cuts for the middle class and not the wealthy.
Health care for as many people as possible.
DADT repeal.

The Extreme Right wants
Tax cuts for the Rich
Repeal on health care.
No Repeal on DADT

So far, Obama has given tax cuts to the rich.
Did a bad job selling health care (his own words)
Has not repealed DADT yet, although I am sure it will get there.

He has let the Republicans change the came on him by forcing him to negotiate things that should not be up for negotiation, like extension of unemployment foe people that are trying to feed their families. Everyone should support this during these tough times.

[Wuud52]

12:41 AM on 12/13/2010

Hmm, a couple of typos, but the point still stands.

[tcalger87]

02:54 AM on 12/13/2010

President Obama has to regain ground w the independents.
Why would the President move to the right?
80% of voters are solidly in one of the two camps.
It is the 20% in the middle that have to be concvinced.

People on the right will vote for the GOP candidate.
Nothing President Obama does will change that.
He won in 2008 by getting a large turnout and gainig a majority of Independents.
He is still supported by a large majority of Democrats.

Other issues fade relative to Jobs and the economy right now and will likely be THE issue in 2012.

The UI was extended for 13 months.

[calindi]

10:20 PM on 12/12/2010

Interesting.  Of course, the election will not be held tomorrow.
I was disappointed in the tax decision, and several others during President Obama's time in office. 
 
That does not translate into me transferring my alligence to another candidate, especially right now.
The appropriate time to figure out whether this administration has done the job that we want is nearly two years from now, not tomorrow.
 
Mitt Romney?  I'd think he'd be one of the easiest of republicans to beat in a general election, and you can be sure that he'd have to put a raving, southern, baptist bible thumper to try and get southern votes.  Having a Wall Street background isn't going to help...'Romney Care' isn't going to help, and sadly, that great head of hair isn't going to get it done either.

[gwilder]

10:04 PM on 12/12/2010

like so many on this site have said, Obama just handed the republicans the White House with this tax deal he made with the GOP and all the caving in.

[Schmaltzy the Golem]

09:52 PM on 12/12/2010

Willard in 2012? Only you can make it happen by misrepresenting the facts,the situations,blaming Obama instead of the GOP and not showing up to vote...like last November.

[The other mike]

09:02 PM on 12/12/2010

Mitt's biggest problem will be with his own party. He's too liberal and too Mormon for the teabaggers and religious whakos who seem to be in charge.

[zanbama]

08:58 AM on 12/13/2010

They don't care as long as Obama is out.

[Left on Red]

08:40 PM on 12/12/2010

Mitt is still a piece of baseball equipment, usually leather, and frequently slammed to the ground after an error has been made.