Poll: Obama leads all potential GOP 2012 nominees

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Poll: Obama leads all potential GOP 2012 nominees

Barack Obama

President Barack Obama at the State Department in Washington. | AP Photo/Charles Dharapak


By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — Only 36 percent of registered voters say they'd definitely vote for President Barack Obama next year — but he still tops all Republican challengers in one-on-one matchups, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

The survey also found that Republicans and Republican-leaning independents remain highly uncertain about who they want to face Obama. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the field, but with only 19 percent.

The findings "speak to the vulnerability on the part of the president," but also doubts about the Republican field, said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll.

The survey was taken June 15-23, after seven Republicans held a nationally televised debate in New Hampshire on June 13. It also covered a period of low consumer confidence in the economy and gasoline prices near $4 a gallon.

The survey included 801 registered voters, with 308 Republicans or GOP-leaning independents. The error margin was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for registered voters and plus or minus 5.5 percentage points for questions asked only of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.

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[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. It'd be downright scary if he didn't.

What's running for the nomination on the GOP side? An ugly, psychopathic philanderer with a 200-lb head, a dingy-brained graduate of a Bible-banging university who knows less than a 6th grader, and so on.