Washington – New National Poll: Gingrich 45% Obama 43%

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    Washington – The Newt Gingrich surge has moved him to the top of the polls in Iowa, big gains in New Hampshire and now a two-point edge over President Obama in a hypothetical general election match-up.

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    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters finds Gingrich attracting 45% of the vote while President Obama earns support from 43%. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

    Last week, Gingrich trailed the president by six. Two weeks ago, he was down by twelve. Earlier in the year, both Rick Perry and Herman Cain followed a similar path to take a slight lead over the president. However, in both cases, their time as frontrunners quickly came to an end. Neither man led the president more than a single time in a Rasmussen Reports poll. It remains to be seen whether Gingrich follows that path or is able to retain his status as the leading alternative to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

    Romney is the only GOP candidate who has been ahead of the president more than a single time. For most of the year, he and President Obama were essentially even. Currently, Romney trails Obama by six. While the president typically leads named Republicans, a generic Republican candidate consistently leads the president.

    Romney leads in New Hampshire with 34% of the vote. Gingrich is in second, ten points back.

    In Iowa, Gingrich is on top with Romney in second.

    In both states, more than 70% of GOP caucus or primary voters see Romney and Gingrich as qualified to be president. No other candidate comes close.

    Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Republican voters nationwide have a favorable opinion of Romney and 65% say the same of Gingrich.

    (Want a free daily e-mail update? If it’s in the news, it’s in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.

    The national survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on November 28-29, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.


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    12 years ago

    I’d vote for Attila the Hun if it would mean the end of The Anointed One’s reign of terror.

    PMOinFL
    PMOinFL
    12 years ago

    Are people really this stupid? Nobody can honestly believe that Gingrich could win the presidency.

    Herman Cain has been knocked out of the running because of his lustful and adulterous past. What will happen when the commercials begin to air detailing how Gingrich went to his wife’s bedside while she was recovering from cancer treatments and told her he’d been having an affair and wanted a divorce.

    For that alone, he is DOA.

    Secondly, his lies have just been stacked up too high. Obama and the Dems have been real smart about NOT discrediting Gingrich in the media. Why? Because they WANT him to be the front-runner. They WANT him to get the nomination because there is no chance he could EVER beat Obama.

    It just goes to show you that Republican voters are just as dumb as Democratic voters.

    We need 3rd party CONSERVATIVES (as opposed to Republicans who are anything but Conservative) and we need them NOW!

    PMOinFL
    PMOinFL
    12 years ago

    One other point: Rasmussen is typically the LEAST reliable polling organization, and is frequently off by double-digit numbers as proven in the last few election cycles… well beyond their margins of error.

    FmrBklynKid
    FmrBklynKid
    12 years ago

    Can you say “One Termer”?

    PinnyMeir
    PinnyMeir
    12 years ago

    Well, now that Obama’s people have derailed Cain, for sure Gingrich will be the next target. Keep your eyes open folks, they’re digging deep, and I’m sure (from the folks who brought you the ‘Hawaiian birth certificate’) – some new juicy shmutz on Gingrich will be on the front pages soon.

    madaan
    madaan
    12 years ago

    The man-child Failure-in-Chief famously bragged when he occupied the White House and inflicted his incompetent regime on the country that he would generate large numbers of “shovel-ready” jobs.

    My dog has generated more shovel-ready jobs than has the incompetent fool in the White House.

    House prices are now back to 2003 values.

    Iran is on the verge of nuclear weapons capability.

    The U.K., Israel, and other true friends of the U.S. have repeatedly been disrespected by the incompetent poser.

    The actual unemployment rate, including those who have given up looking, is far higher than the supposed “9.1%” – closer on average across the entire country to 17%.

    Gas prices anyone?

    Yet, mindless worshippers of the “Anointed One” continue to bow before his image – perhaps the pictures showing him sitting like a moron in Fuehrer “reverend” Wright’s antisemitic “church”?

    To save the United States of America, in November 2012:
    Vote anyone but B. Hussein Obama.

    12 years ago

    At this point, I really don’t think that Gingrich will beat Obama. Let us be realistic; Gingrich will be 69 years old next year. In addition, he is overweight. The voters will remember what happened the last time that they elected a 69 year old to the Presidency in 1980. The individual who was elected in 1980 and reelected at age 73 in 1984, may have in fact been suffering from dementia in his second term. The latter was mentioned by his own biological son. Now, contrast that with a youthful, physically fit, 51 year old (next year). The unemployment rate can still be 9% next year, and the budgetary and debt problems will remain the same. However, all Obama has to do, is turn on the charm, smile, make a few good speeches, visit Eretz Yisrael and state what a good friend he is, and presto, he will be reelected in 2012, whether we like it or not. I don’t intend to vote for him (I didn’t the last time). However, we have to face the facts, which I outlined above.

    Yazmach
    Yazmach
    12 years ago

    The best thing that could happen to this country is to elect a person like the man who was president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

    Even if it is true that he was suffering from dementia in his second term he was far more competent during that time than the brilliant “Jimmy Carter” “Bill Clinton” or “Barack Obama”

    12 years ago

    The Rasmussen polls are known to be extremely biased. They do not call cell phone numbers, for example, thus limiting their polling to people who have landlines (who happen to be older and more conservative). They also call what they term “likely voters” (which means that they get the names of people who voted in off-year elections, who also happen to be older and more conservative), and they have not released their methodologies (which makes them suspect).

    12 years ago

    To #9 - I beg to differ with you regarding the intellect of Ronald Reagan. Prior to him visiting the German military at Bitburg in 1985, he stated “The SS troops buried at Bitburg were just as much victims of Nazism, as were the inmates in the concentration camps”. Therefore, can you honestly state that the latter statement came from a person with good judgement? In addition to his ill conceived visit to Bitburg, which opened a lot of old wounds, he also made other blunders, such as sending the U.S. Marines to Lebanon, where they were sitting ducks, and caught between opposing factions in a civil war. As a result of inept intelligence, and incompetence of the commanders on the ground, over 243 Marines were killed when their barracks were bombed by a suicide truck bomber, in 1983. Also, when the sale of AWACs planes to Saudi Arabia went through in 1981, Reagan’s advisors boasted that “they broke the backs of the Jewish lobby”.

    SammyL
    SammyL
    12 years ago

    There is still a long way to go. Regarding “ideas” Gingrich is tops. In debates he can score a TKO in less than one round against Obama. The ObamaMedia will go crazy trashing Gingrich. Is he electable? I’m not sure.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    12 years ago

    One of the Republican candidates wanted to secede from the United States and now will swear to uphhold and defend the constitution. Another candidate is flooded by sexual innuendos of course a smear campaign. What a motley crew. Then there is another candidate who believes in the second coming of the savior which pick up all these nonbeliever and deliver them to their ultimate resting place which of course will immediately increase employment and delete Obamacare the socialist scheme. Don’t forget we must keep section 8, food stamps and the other socialist schemes otherwise the kollelelim will suffer

    marcia
    marcia
    12 years ago

    The saddest legacy Obama is leaving… he will be the first black American president to fail but he will certainly not be the last, whether they be black/white/red/yellow. I can ABSOLUTELY see Gingrich beating Obama, a debate would be sensational! Gingrich has already challenged the sitting president to a debate (a little presumptuous of him) and told him he can even use his teleprompter. If Hillary can forgive Bill for his transgressions then they may not be willing to throw stones when their glass houses are worth nothing lately.