Why uninspiring 2012 GOP candidates can't win
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That leaves a whopping 58 percent hoping another, better, as yet unannounced, candidate will throw their hat in the ring.
But that does not mean Sarah Palin.
Reading the political tea leaves must be a depressing prospect for the current field and their supporters. In fact at times, at this point, the prospect is so bleak for the GOP field that it's almost enough to make Donald Trump take a second (or is that a third) look.
The poll also found that President Obama's favorability rate tops all the Republican candidates at 54 percent. Contrast that with the unfavorability rating generated by Palin - she's topped the list with 58 percent viewing her mostly or very unfavorably.
In an eye opening report by the Pew Research group this week it turned out 53 percent can't even name a possible GOP candidate for 2012 that's been talked about in the news.
And when they are able to name a GOP candidate, the person currently most associated with the GOP is Donald Trump.
Oh, dear. All that birtherism really did was bite them in their own rear ends.
So for all their bluster about making Barack Obama a one-term president, it looks like the GOP's gallery of the uninspired and the unelectable actually looks like they've conceded before the race has even begun.
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michaelidaho | Jun 24, 2011, 03:00 PM EDT
First, why do you keep talking about Sarah Palin and Donald Trump at least three times in every article you write (FYI Trump and Palin are NOT Republican candidates for the Presidency)? Second, are you aware that President Obama has been dropping in the polls since he stepped into the Oval office (with the exception of a bump after the killing of Osama Bin Laden)? Third, I am an independent voter and I voted for Obama in 2008 and I will not vote for him again.
Instead of focusing on fringe elements in the Republican party you would do well to take a more balanced analysis of Republican candidates such as Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman.
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hollabackgurl | Jun 24, 2011, 12:35 PM EDT
The GOP are so desperate now they will even sabotage America's economic recovery if it benefits President Obama. They are coming out against business tax cuts (read that again) the Democrats happen to support. They want to retard our economic recovery for short term political gain - and looking at this lineup you realize they're the perfectideological reflection of the extreme Fox News/Tea Party noise machine that cannot tolerate anything but its own views.
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pflynn70 | Jun 24, 2011, 11:23 AM EDT
Cahir better re-check your poll numbers, and don't use the ones run by the Liberal Left. People are now wise to Obamas B/S and empty promises. He has no idea as to what to do and his collage of idiots who surround him offer no solution as well.He's finished, he knows it and I just hope and pray to gos that there is something left of our country when we kick his arse out of the White House. P/S You really need a heavy dose of true reality!
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johhnyb | Jun 24, 2011, 10:42 AM EDT
Wishful thinking.
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francisquinn | Jun 24, 2011, 10:26 AM EDT
some corrections in my comment...
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francisquinn | Jun 24, 2011, 10:24 AM EDT
Cant win...what are you smoking ?
Her is BO...95 unempoyment....a 4 14.4 tri debt....we take in $ 2 tri but now spending $3.5...
an annual debt per yr of $ 1.5 trillion...a Lybian war and aft war....and you say the Rep cant win...??/
this ia a no brainer....BO is unfit for duty and office..
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mikehoulihan | Jun 24, 2011, 10:19 AM EDT
What poll are you looking at regarding Obama? President Obama's own approval rating stood at 43%, according to a Thursday Gallup poll, with his disapproval hitting 50%.
Sorry Cahir darling, you got it wrong again, your column is nothing but left wing propaganda you twit.
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shamrock99 | Jun 24, 2011, 10:12 AM EDT
O'Doherty, you have it all wrong. The republicans could run Donald Duck and he would win handily.
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olovely | Jun 24, 2011, 10:06 AM EDT
I was walking past Madame Tussaud's this week when it suddenly hit me - I know what these wax work dummies remind me of...
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wjb1tex | Jun 24, 2011, 09:57 AM EDT
Dream on.
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