If Rush Limbaugh ever decides to run for President, he can probably count on carrying the state of Arkansas against President Obama.
Public Policy Polling (D) is currently in the field in the state that gave us Bill Clinton, and their survey includes this question: "Between Rush Limbaugh and Barack Obama, who do you think has the better vision for America?"
So far, PPP communications director Tom Jensen tells me, Limbaugh is winning by about ten points. The numbers could potentially narrow between now and when the survey is finished over the weekend, but Jensen is sure that Limbaugh will end up winning.
Although Arkansas is the home of Bill Clinton, and generally elects Democrats to both state and federal offices, John McCain easily carried the state in 2008, winning by a margin of 59%-39%.
Late Update: PPP has also Twittered this other early bit of info: "Arkansas is definitely the birtherest state to date...it's been fun but I think we'll stop asking about it after this poll."


mcc
August 21, 2009 2:31 PM
We should try to work out some kind of deal where the Republicans take the senate seats in Arkansas and in exchange the Democrats take the seats in Maine. :P
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Docb
August 21, 2009 6:25 PM in reply to mcc
I am for the exchange but we already knew the Arkies were inbred --look at the population of low information rural crazies.. There are places that are just like 'Deliverance' in those hills...Lets send him on down there --for good!
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apodaca
August 21, 2009 2:39 PM
No surprise there. Recall that Arkansas is Ground Zero in the small swath of counties where McCain-2008 did better than Bush-2004: see http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/11/the_mccain_belt.php
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Michael A
August 21, 2009 2:43 PM
Actually this is excellent news. Lush for prez in 2012. He would win in a landslide. All those ditto heads would come out in force and haul his lard a** over the top. Lush in 2012.
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wvbiker
August 21, 2009 3:28 PM
Hey, hey!! What about West Virginia??
I need this poll here too!!
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LuxVeritas
August 21, 2009 4:13 PM
Uh, duh? Racism usually has that effect on people.
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Orlando
August 21, 2009 5:52 PM
Maybe we need some interstate busing. This time, we can base it on spreading IQ points around.
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Kibitzer 2006
August 21, 2009 10:48 PM
What kind of pollster releases partial results while the poll is still in the field?
"Hi, I'm conducting a poll. All your friends and neighbors think xxx. What do you think?"
I can't recall ever seeing that before.
--Kibitzer
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AJM
August 22, 2009 9:09 AM
Of course they are going to stop asking the Birther question -- it's just too embarrassing to reveal that you have to be crazy to support the head of the Republican Party.
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JohnW1141
August 22, 2009 10:48 AM
Hi, we're conducting a poll;
"Between white, patriotic, and moral leader, Rush Limbaugh, and the Nazi loving socialist darkie, Barack Obama, who do you think has the better vision for America?"
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JohnBFontaine
August 25, 2009 3:17 PM
Rush's mendacious rhetoric that Hitler and the nazis were on the political left is revisionist Orwellian doublespeak. The Truth is that Hitler and the nazis were ultra right-wing.
In creating his Evil movement, national socialism, Hitler only used the term 'socialism' because he believed that the ideology was itself right-wing and totally opposed to marxism:
1. 'NATIONAL' AND 'SOCIAL' ARE TWO IDENTICAL CONCEPTIONS. It was only the Jew who succeeded, through falsifying the social idea and turning it into Marxism, not only in divorcing the social idea from the national, but in actually representing them as utterly contradictory. That aim he has in fact achieved. At the founding of this Movement we formed the decision that we would give expression to this idea of ours of the identity of the two conceptions: despite all warnings, on the basis of what we had come to believe, on the basis of the sincerity of our will, we christened it ''National Socialist.' - Munich speech, April 12th, 1922
Hitler and the Nazis despised and ruthlessly attacked ALL politics on the left, and also were bankrolled by major german industrialists and supported by the right-wing, anti-union, anti-semitic Henry Ford.
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