A stunning new poll conducted by Newsmax/Zogby reveals that Massachusett's new Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown could theoretically defeat President Barack Obama in a presidential election.
The Newsmax/Zogby poll released Tuesday found that the pair would be statistically deadlocked if the presidential election was held today.
The poll indicates surprisingly weak support for the president among independent voters, who favor the tyro Brown by 48.6 percent to 36 percent in a hypothetical matchup against Obama.
Mark McKinnon, the respected political strategist who created former President George W. Bush's successful television ad campaigns in 2000 and 2004, told Newsmax that the survey results should trigger alarms for Team Obama.
"The real problem for Obama is that he has lost the middle, and losing the middle means losing independents," McKinnon said. "And it is independents that are responsible for swinging elections one way or the other in this country. So if you lose independents, you're going to lose the presidency."
The poll asked likely voters: "If the election for president of the United States were held today and the only candidates were Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Scott Brown, for whom would you vote?"
Based on the 4,163 responses, Obama leads Brown by 46.5 percent to 44.6 percent. That amounts to a statistical tie because the Zogby survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5 percent.
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9 comments:
We are due for a JFK type to save
the U.S..
I was thinking the same thing
Enjoy your visit from the Secret Service you 2.
I would vote for BROWN anytime he wants to run. Damn the Secert Service.
I wonder where Sheriff Joe Arpaio would fall in this poll!
Maybe Sarah Palin should pick him as her running mate, but then, what do we do with Glenn Beck?
I think Pat Paulsen would beat Obama in an election right now.
Obama is the worst President this country has ever seen!
put me down for a Scott Brown vote!!!
Terrible idea. Then we go from one unproven rookie politician to another. This is not a viable solution for success. We need proven, battle-tested leaders. We do not need anyone who, a decade ago, was not involved in the business of running government. I like Scott Brown, too, but give him at two or three Senate terms, with a side order of a Cabinet position, before sizing him up for the Oval Office.
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