Poll Finds Edge for Obama Over G.O.P. Among the Public.

[elleng]

'The poll suggests that Mr. Obama and his party have an opportunity to deflect the anger and anxiety if they can frame the election not as a referendum on the president and his party, but as a choice between them and a Republican approach that yielded results under Mr. Bush that much of the nation still blames for the country’s woes. That is what the White House has been trying to do since the beginning of the year.

For all the erosion in support for Mr. Obama, Americans say he better understands their needs and problems and has made more of an effort to be bipartisan than Congressional Republicans, the poll found.

“It feels like an attempt to sabotage the majority and to regain control of power rather than working on a compromise,” John Smith, a Republican from Greenville, S.C., said of his party after participating in the poll.'


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/us/politics/12poll.html?th&emc=th

[opihimoimoi]

1. The Pubs are DOOMed

[berttheturk]

2. Unfortunately, another poll shows the President only leads by 2-points against a "nobody" in 2010.

Here's the first part of the article:

President Barack Obama leads a generic Republican candidate by only 2 percentage points in a potential 2012 matchup, according to a new Gallup Poll out Thursday that also shows a continued drift of independents away from Democrats.

Obama leads 44 percent to 42 percent, a statistical dead heat, against a nameless Republican, according to the survey of 1,025 adults nationwide.

Not surprisingly, the poll shows that Democrats strongly believe the president should be reelected, while Republicans would like to see one of their own in the White House.

But among independent voters, 45 percent would back a Republican and only 31 percent would favor the president. Twenty-four percent of independents are not sure if they would vote for Obama or a Republican candidate.

link to story

[tblue37]

3. Yet it should no be an "edge" but a chasm! nt

[Zoeisright]

4. And that 'edge' could have been a huge lead if Obama

had actually governed like he promised in the campaign. What a waste.