The Right Freaks Out As GOP Poll Finds 20% Of Republicans May Vote For Obama

[Emit]

A major freak out is occurring on the right as a new poll released by a Republican polling company has found that 20% of Republicans are more likely to vote for Obama.

The poll done by Republican polling firm Wenzel Strategies for World Net Daily found something similar to my own recent analysis of state polling data that the 2012 election is beginning to look like a replay of 2008. The Wenzel/WND poll turned up the surprising statistic that no matter who the Republican nominee is, one fifth of the Republican voters surveyed are leaning towards voting for President Obama.

The only Republican candidate who doesn’t lose at least 20% of GOP voters to Obama is Ron Paul, and he loses 19%. The poll found that 54% of those surveyed believed that Obama had exceeded or lived up to their expectations, and 47% said that he had not. Sixty percent of Independents thought Obama has met or exceeded their expectations as did 52% of moderates. In the head to head match ups with all voters polled Obama leads Romney, 48%-41%, Gingrich, 50%-36%, and Santorum, 49%-34%. Ron Paul fares best against Obama and he trails the president, 44%-40%.

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http://www.politicususa.com/en/republicans-support-obama

[phasma ex machina]

1. dup

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125110672

(On the front page, no less.)

[MADem]

2. I think that number is a bit low, actually.

I would not be surprised if there's an awful lot of sheepish expression, ***look both ways**** then pull the lever for Barack on the part of the GOP!

[elleng]

5. YUP!

[ZombieHorde]

3. Wow. Good news for us. nt

[TheWraith]

4. The alternative is voting for one of the other freakshows. Can you blame them? nt

[oldhippydude]

6. gonna frost their butt..

when they see Republicans for Obama bumper stickers... we have lived the last 30 years with the phrase "Reagan Democrats".. i could learn to love the phrase Obama Republicans

[Rex]

7. SO that means that 1/5 republicans have actual intelligence?

And why are they freaking out? Are they really that stupid as to the fact that they picked total losers to run for POTUS!?

[Kurmudgeon]

8. 20% sounds about right. I'd noticed several of my right wing friends being quiet lately.

They've lost the heart to defend the 2012 GOP clown car, can't say I really blame them.
I've tried to leave them alone, no point provoking them to defend out of stubbornness, and mainly just debate the louder ones who haven't quite figure out that calling the President names just isn't working any more.

[Itchinjim]

9. My old school GOP in-laws are among those 20%

But they voted for Obama in 2008 too.

[quaker bill]

10. All of the Tea Party regalia once on display

in my neighborhood has disappeared. Signs, don't tread on me flags, bumperstickers, the works, all of it. These people have actually gone to the work of removing the bumperstickers. None have apparently switched sides and are still probably R voters, but the tea party bit has seemingly become embarrassing enough that they no longer want to display it to the public. While they probably still are R voters, none of them even had a candidate sign up for the FL primary.... Some of these folks were no doubt among the 400,000 R voters that did not show at the polls for the primary.

I sense buyers remorse.

[Major Nikon]

11. Actually they may be happy if those 20% show up to the polls

The biggest problem Republicans have right now is Republicans just aren't going to show up to the polls. That means Republican Representatives and Senators both state and federal are going to have a tough time. So not only do they lose the Executive branch, but they are going to lose everything else as well.

[justiceischeap]

12. This goes to show that some who have said Obama is Repub-lite

are right or there are 20% of people within the Repub party that haven't lost their minds. Take your pick.

[Puzzledtraveller]

14. It's his pragmatism

That I have always believed set him squarely in the middle. The far right claims he is super liberal if not outright socialist, the far left has made claims that he is too far to the right, the reality has to be somewhere in the middle and I believe this is what will catch the moderates who are registered republicans.

[progressoid]

16. Both.

[mick063]

13. They grow weary

Think of how tiresome for them to be "shocked and outraged" about once per week. On cue, they must fein moral indignation.

The sensationalism has limitations. One of them being the "up and down" emotional toll for just believing your leadership. Just how often and how severe can you hate Obama? It has to wear on you.

Making Obama a "one term" president is the GOP mandate. They think they can win with that. They think they can pick on Women, Unions, Gays, and the poor because hating Obama gives them the cache. They think that it is empowering to hate Obama. That such hate allows them to reach a little more.

This is why they are going to get their collective asses handed to them, across the board, in November.

[MadHound]

15. This is why the Democratic party has become more conservative over the years,

The party continues to move to the right in order to pick up these "moderate" Republican voters. Carter, Clinton, now Obama, all have governed increasingly from the right, leaving the left out in the cold.