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Monday, November 22, 2010
Poll: Obama doesn’t deserve second term; but he leads Palin
There’s bad news and good news for Democratic President Barack Obama in a national Quinnipiac University poll released Monday.
The bad news: voters say, 49-43 percent, that Obama doesn’t deserve a second term.
The good news: Obama leads Republican Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate, 48-40 percent, in a possible 2012 showdown.
The poll also finds Obama in statistical dead heats with potential Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor.
Romney leads, 45-44 percent, while Obama leads Huckabee, 46-44 percent.
Also, Democratic voters say, 64-27 percent, that they do not want anyone to challenge Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2012.
Other poll results:
*Obama leads Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, another potential GOP candidate, 45-36 percent.
*Palin leads narrowly in a mythical GOP primary, with 19 percent. Others include: Romney, 18 percent; Huckabee, 17 percent; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 15 percent; Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, 6 percent and Daniels, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, each 2 percent.
*Palin is views the most negatively of the possible 2012 GOP candidates. She is viewed unfavorably by 51 percent of voters and favorably by 36 percent.
“The best thing Obama has going for him when it comes to his re-election may be that at this point the Republicans don’t have a candidate who is both nationally well-known and well-liked by the majority of voters,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnpiac University Polling Institute, said in a press release.
The poll was conducted Nov. 8-15 by live telephone interviews with 2,424 registered voters across the country and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
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