A national survey released Monday from Public Policy Polling (D) suggests that New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I) would not start out with any broad national appeal if he were to mount a third-party run for president in 2012. What’s more, the ex-Republican Bloomberg would take more votes from the GOP nominee’s column, helping President Obama.
In two-way races, Obama leads Mike Huckabee by 48%-45%, leads Sarah Palin by 51%-42%, leads Newt Gingrich by 49%-43%, edges out Mitt Romney by 47%-46%, and leads Marco Rubio by 48%-37%.
With Mike Bloomberg thrown in for a three-way race with Romney, Mayor Mike gets only 11%, with more of it apparently taken from the Republican column. As a result, Obama’s lead grows to 44%-38%, plus Bloomberg’s 11%.
In addition, Bloomberg’s national favorable rating is only 19%, only half of his unfavorable rating of 38%. Republicans view him negatively at 12%-48%, Democrats at 24%-30%, and independents at 19%-37%.
PPP’s Tom Jensen writes:
Obviously the millions Bloomberg would throw at a Presidential bid could make a big difference in how he’s perceived- but as we saw with Meg Whitman this year it’s also possible endless spending wouldn’t change his image much at all. At this point it doesn’t look like he would be a serious player in 2012.
The survey of likely voters has a ±3.7%. margin of error.
Eric Kleefeld
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