Obama Leads GOP Field in NH

[Peadar O Suileabhain]

Magellan Strategies
789 likely general election voters
9-10 Feb 2011
+/-3.49%

Obama 48
Romney 44

Obama 51
Huckabee 38

Obama 56
Gingrich 33

Obama 57
Palin 34


http://unionleader.com/uploads/media-ite...l21111.pdf

Story at NH Union Leader (strong stomach required for absurdly apoplectic comments).

[Cha]

I hope it gets stronger as the time gets closer.

[Tarheel_Dem]

Romney is much too close for comfort. I suppose it's because he seems sane, comparatively speaking.

[Peadar O Suileabhain]

(02-12-2011 03:08 AM)Tarheel_Dem Wrote:  Romney is much too close for comfort. I suppose it's because he seems sane, comparatively speaking.

He's also a local. Most New Hampshire voters live within the Boston media market, so we've been hearing about Romney since 1994. Romney also owns a home on Lake Winnepesaukee in Wolfeboro.

[Tarheel_Dem]

(02-12-2011 01:48 PM)Peadar O Suileabhain Wrote:  He's also a local. Most New Hampshire voters live within the Boston media market, so we've been hearing about Romney since 1994. Romney also owns a home on Lake Winnepesaukee in Wolfeboro.

Thanks for that bit of good news. I keep thinking that a Mitt Romney won't fare as well here in the South. The whole Mormon thing, which really shouldn't matter, just won't play well with the Southern Baptists.

[CTLawGuy]

(02-12-2011 02:01 PM)Tarheel_Dem Wrote:  

(02-12-2011 01:48 PM)Peadar O Suileabhain Wrote:  He's also a local. Most New Hampshire voters live within the Boston media market, so we've been hearing about Romney since 1994. Romney also owns a home on Lake Winnepesaukee in Wolfeboro.

Thanks for that bit of good news. I keep thinking that a Mitt Romney won't fare as well here in the South. The whole Mormon thing, which really shouldn't matter, just won't play well with the Southern Baptists.

Mittens won't get past the R primary. After all, his fingerprints are on socialist obamacare-MA version. His opponents aren't going to let him get away with that.

The R nominee won't be any of the people polled. It will be someone less well known. If Obama is beating these people in VA of all places, as he is, then they are in a shitload of trouble if they go with one of these retreads.

[Tarheel_Dem]

(02-12-2011 06:48 PM)CTLawGuy Wrote:  Mittens won't get past the R primary. After all, his fingerprints are on socialist obamacare-MA version. His opponents aren't going to let him get away with that.

The R nominee won't be any of the people polled. It will be someone less well known. If Obama is beating these people in VA of all places, as he is, then they are in a shitload of trouble if they go with one of these retreads.

I've even heard the name Marco Rubio floated. Admittedly, I thought Scott Brown could have been a possibility, shortly after his win in MA. But it seems the Teabaggers turned on him almost immediately, and that's a good thing.

[CTLawGuy]

(02-12-2011 07:52 PM)Tarheel_Dem Wrote:  

(02-12-2011 06:48 PM)CTLawGuy Wrote:  Mittens won't get past the R primary. After all, his fingerprints are on socialist obamacare-MA version. His opponents aren't going to let him get away with that.

The R nominee won't be any of the people polled. It will be someone less well known. If Obama is beating these people in VA of all places, as he is, then they are in a shitload of trouble if they go with one of these retreads.

I've even heard the name Marco Rubio floated. Admittedly, I thought Scott Brown could have been a possibility, shortly after his win in MA. But it seems the Teabaggers turned on him almost immediately, and that's a good thing.

Scott Brown could have decided he can't win his senate seat in '12, turned hard right and run for president, but he decided to try and stay in the senate, which is why he has tacked to the middle.

[nofurylike]

great to hear, and i look forward to his lead widening!
thank you for posting this, Peadar O Suileabhain!

[jaxx]

And the far lefties want to primary the President. Jeez, they don't care about a Democrat being in the WH, only their single issues.

[sufrommich]

(02-13-2011 09:57 AM)jaxx Wrote:  And the far lefties want to primary the President. Jeez, they don't care about a Democrat being in the WH, only their single issues.

I wonder who they think would be a real primary challenge to Obama? Personally,I wouldn't mind seeing them try. I think it might take the wind out of their sails to see how little support they can really get. Obama is going to run for a second term with no challenge inside the Democratic party,that much is a given as far as I can see.