SurveyUSA: Americans mostly share Obama's world-view, want him as dinner guest

[angus]

47% say they would invite Barack Obama.
14% would invite Rick Santorum.
14% would invite Ron Paul.
12% would invite Mitt Romney.
8% would invite Newt Gingrich.

Hear, hear.

Gingrich wouldn't leave much food for anyone else.  Santorum would make you say grace.  I wouldn't have any idea what to serve Romney to drink (are they even allowed to drink anything?)  And of course Ron Paul subsists on Geritol and bran muffins, so the barbeque would go to waste.

That pretty much leaves Obama as the only decent dinner guest among them.

[angus]

Too bad this isn't 2004, huh? Otherwise, Obama would be looking pretty good right now. Alas, economic/social conditions are not favorable towards re-election based solely upon personal likeability ratings.

2004 was about sandwiches, not barbeque, and John Kerry's preference for swiss cheese seemed to have made him a poor dinner guest.  (Never mind Bush's choking on a pretzel the year before!  That seemed to have been forgotten.  Besides, Condi was manning the grill in Crawford and wouldn't let Bush anywhere near it after that segueway incident, so Bush was safe.)

Too bad Hermann Cain isn't still in the running.  He'd make a fine dinner guest, imho.