US-2012 Primary: 23% Romney, 22% Cain, 16% Gingrich (Pew 11/9-14)

Pew Research
11/9-14/11; 2,001 adults, 3% margin of error
1,576 registered voters, 3% margin of error
738 Republicans, 4.5% margin of error
Mode: Live telephone interviews
Pew release

National

Obama Job Approval
46% Approve, 46% Disapprove (chart)
Economy: 35 / 58 (chart)
Foreign Policy: 46 / 40 (chart)

Favorable / Unfavorable
Barack Obama: 52 / 45 (chart)
Mitt Romney: 36 / 42
Rick Perry: 25 / 50
Herman Cain: 29 / 50
Newt Gingrich: 31 / 48

2012 President: Republican Primary
23% Romney
22% Cain
16% Gingrich
8% Paul
8% Perry
5% Bachmann
2% Huntsman
1% Santorum
(chart)

2012 President: General Election
49% Obama (D), 47% Romney (R) (chart)
53% Obama (D), 42% Perry (R)
54% Obama (D), 42% Cain (R)
54% Obama (D), 42% Gingrich (R)

Comments

[Joe Pithier]

11:32 AM on 11/18/2011

A. The race will reset after Iowa.
B. Pollster is undermining its credibility by posting, incessantly, these national primary polls (at least before then).

[Rightbrainedleftwinged]

05:03 PM on 11/17/2011

I think the occupy wall street protesters are embarassing themselves, and I think Obama and other progressive politicians should send a message to them that they should not stay in these places anymore. Even if they agree with their goals and their reason for being there, it isn't productive for their cause. I mean, I think more spontaneous protests are better, when groups go to protest at a GOP event, or confront someone like Cantor or Romney at an event. I just think if these people campt out in cities like oakland or portland Oregon, they are just going to look like street bums with nothing better to do.

I think what is constructive is to help get better candidates, and start at having a goal and a strategy. Obviously some states like Wisconsin and Ohio had clear goals and have made progress recently, but the longer these people protest on bridges and fight with police, it is going to make left wing people appear violent, even if they are not. It won't win voters and influence people. I agree with them philisophically, but I do not think they have a clear goal in mind.

[ashenthorn]

06:31 AM on 11/18/2011

I don't think OWS protesters care about any message sent by Obama or any other politicians about what they should do.

[Rightbrainedleftwinged]

10:26 AM on 11/18/2011

No, you are right. Although I don't support the tactics they are using, since I don't think camping out through a winter is going to really get better legislation passed, the message is catching on. Obama wants to keep his distance from the movement, because he is up for re-election, and knows that a majority of Americans are clueless about politics. I won't say we are a center/right country, I'd say we are a country that has a lot of politlcally iliterate people, and Obama knows that.

[Rightbrainedleftwinged]

03:53 PM on 11/17/2011

looks like the unfavorables are higher among romney.

[Rightbrainedleftwinged]

03:53 PM on 11/17/2011

Reading the numbers, it has been very consistent that Romney is the only one who beats Obama among independents, so it is time for progressives to start diggin up the dirt.

[Bukama]

04:58 PM on 11/17/2011

There's the American spirit for you!

[Symanski]

05:19 PM on 11/17/2011

It's the nature of politics all over, sadly. Both sides have to play this game of tearing down the other side, rather than promote their own good-this is mostly because neither side in this country has much good in them, or from them. Thus, we get a contest defined by monkeys throwing poop at each other, like a zoo. It's entertaining enough, but a sad way to operate something so profoundly important to civilization as government.