Survey Says...

[Darwin]

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/was...all-beat-obama

Apparently they forgot to include Peewee Herman, Lady Gaga, and Carrot Top in the selection.

[Crow]

Obama leads in head-to-heads

In hypothetical match-ups for the general election, President Barack Obama leads Romney by two points, 46 percent to 44 percent, which is virtually unchanged from August.

Against Cain, Obama enjoys an 11 point advantage, 49 percent to 38 percent. And against Perry, the president is up by 12 points, 51 percent to 39 percent.

When paired against a generic Republican, 44 percent say they would “probably” vote for Obama, while 42 percent would “probably” vote for the Republican candidate. That’s a change from August, when a generic Republican led the incumbent president, 44 percent to 40 percent.

And 73 percent of Democrats and 78 percent of Democratic primary voters say they want their party to nominate Obama again as its 2012 presidential candidate. By comparison, in April 1995, 67 percent of Democrats said the same of Bill Clinton, who didn’t face a primary challenger during his successful re-election bid.

“Difficult” numbers for the president


But Obama’s political standing isn’t markedly better since the end of the bruising battle over raising the debt ceiling. His job-approval rating remains unchanged 44 percent, and only 39 percent approve of his handling of the economy. (Yet 61 percent approve of his handling of the war against terrorism.)

What’s more, only 17 percent of respondents believe the country is headed in the right direction; just 18 percent think the federal government is working well or “okay”; and only 21 percent feel the economy will improve over the next year.

“These continue to be a very difficult set of numbers for the president,” said McInturff, the GOP pollster.

The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll was conducted Oct. 6-10 of 1,000 adults (200 reached by cell phone), and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points. The margin of error for the 336 Republican primary voters surveyed in the poll is plus-minus 5.4 percentage points.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44881446.../#.TpYZMnInR-x