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Poll: Obama Still Beats Palin And Other GOPers, But Palin Improves A Little

Eric Kleefeld | November 20, 2009, 11:54AM

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The new national survey from Public Policy Polling (D) finds that President Obama continues to hold a national lead over Sarah Palin and other potential Republican challengers -- but interestingly enough, Palin has closed the gap just a little.

The numbers: Obama leads Palin by 51%-43%, is ahead of Mike Huckabee by 49%-44%, leads Mitt Romney by 48%-43%. The margin of error is ±3%. As a frame of reference, in 2008 the Obama-Biden ticket beat the McCain-Palin ticket by 53%-46%.

A month ago, Obama was ahead of Palin by 52%-40%, ahead of Huckabee by 47%-43%, and ahead of Romney by 48%-40%. Paul was not tested.

Obama's approval rating in the poll is 49%, with 46% disapproving, down from 51%-43% last month.

"Barack Obama is now in a slightly weaker position than he was a year ago at this time," said PPP president Dean Debnam, in the press release. "His leads against Huckabee and Romney are smaller than his margin of victory against John McCain and his approval's dropped below 50%. It's not a dire situation but he needs to reverse the current trend."

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Maritza

November 20, 2009 12:02 PM

It's the economy, stupid!

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Powkat

November 20, 2009 12:09 PM

It's 3 years until the election - this is meaningless.

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Why oh why

November 20, 2009 1:43 PM in reply to Powkat

Journalists are incapable of talking about anything except elections. Nothing else matters to them, and they don't know anything about issues like health care, wars, education...

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Schmed- ley

November 20, 2009 12:12 PM

In other news, Obama had toast for breakfast this morning. Pollsters predict that he may do so again within the next few weeks, although English muffins remain a strong possibility. Stay tuned.

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joejustice

November 20, 2009 12:28 PM

The guy has been in office for barely a year. The fact that you guys put these kinds of polls front and center is pretty pathetic. The Newsmax crowd may love it, but your readers are smarter than this. You might as well highlight Iowa Caucus polls for 2016 for the Dems.

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DownriverDem

November 20, 2009 12:31 PM

When health care passes and the economy improves, the Dems will be in better shape.

Anyone who would vote for Palin is a nut job and/or just might be a racist. The woman will be a female puppet president just like Bush. They are both embarrassingly lacking in any intellectual curiosity.

I am a political junkie and know that in our country's past we have had serious House and Senate conflicts regarding policies that even lead to duels. But what the current Repubs are doing at every turn is borders on treason. They would rather our country and President Obama fail then do a thing to work with them. Why do they even bother to do into government if they hate it so much? Finally, how could anyone think the current Repubs would improve our economic condition when they caused most of our problems.

Don't ever forget that it was Repub presidents (Reagan & Bush SR) who alloved our jobs to be sent out of the country in the 1980s. It makes me want to throw up whenever a rightie talks about how great Reagan was as president. While folks were voting for guns, God and Gays, the Repubs were stabbing them in the back. How many of you unemployed allowed this to happen to our once great country???????????

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DownriverDem

November 20, 2009 12:33 PM

When health care passes and the economy improves, the Dems will be in better shape.

I am a political junkie and know that in our country's past we have had serious House and Senate conflicts regarding policies that even lead to duels. But what the current Repubs are doing at every turn borders on treason. They would rather our country and President Obama fail then do a thing to work with them. Why do they even bother to go into government if they hate it so much? Finally, how could anyone think the current Repubs would improve our economic condition when they caused most of our problems.

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