Poll: Obama tops all leading Republicans by wide margin

[Playinghardball]

Source: Reuters via Raw Story

Obama's approval rating inched up 1 percentage point from May to 50 percent but the number of Americans who believe the country is on the wrong track also rose as pricier gasoline, persistently high unemployment and a weak housing market chipped away at public confidence.

Obama leads all potential Republican challengers by double-digit margins, the poll showed. He is ahead of his closest Republican rival, former Massachusetts governorMitt Romney, by 13 percentage points -- 51 percent to 38 percent.

"Obama's position has gotten a little stronger over the last couple of months as the public mood has evened out, and as an incumbent he has some big advantages over his rivals," Ipsos pollster Cliff Young said.

"Until Republicans go through a primary season and select a nominee, they are going to be at a disadvantage in the head-to-head matchups in name recognition."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/08/poll-obama-tops-all-leading-republicans-even-beating-romney-by-13-percent/

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. good

[Bake]

2. Yesterday a poll had Obama trailing Mittens

Polls at this point are worthless.

Bake

[HopeHoops]

4. Yes, but that was a poll for "Most likely to choke on his own vomit at a firehouse bingo game."

[KittyWampus]

5. Yesterday's poll was probably commissioned my Mittens.

[DCBob]

7. that poll was within the margin of error.. this one released today was way over the MOE..

it was hugh!!11!

[Bake]

8. SERIESLY???

That IS Hugh!!

:hi:

Bake

[spooky3]

10. I think that was commissioned by WaPo, conducted by "TNS" (anyone know about them?)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bin-laden-boost-for-obama-recedes-romney-rises/2011/06/06/AGVwhfKH_graphic.html

registered voters reached by phone (cell or landline) were polled

[HopeHoops]

3. There are "leading Republicans"?

:shrug:

Does that mean the one driving and the one riding shotgun in the clown-mobile?

[monmouth]

6. I think someone posted earlier that Andrea Greenspan said that

the President was behind Mittens. In the background the graph showed POTUS ahead..go figure.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. Rec

:kick:

[FighttheFuture]

11. In the land of midgets, the tall dwarf is king.

[GeorgeGist]

12. In other words ...

Obama is the leading Republican.