Marist Poll: Obama approval increasing, destroys all Republicans

[pbrower2a]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

Neither Huckabee nor Romney has been offering any economic solutions.

[pbrower2a]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

What is to say that the economy will be in so sluggish a state in 2012? It is less sluggish than it was two years ago, when many people thought that we had an ongoing replay of the 1929-1933 meltdown.

I am not surprised at how the President matches up to Sarah Palin. People are beginning to recognize her for what she is. At this point I could see her doing as badly as Landon '36, Goldwater '64, McGovern '72, or Mondale '84 if she were the Republican nominee. Her rhetoric has become an object of ridicule. Hint: the money goes elsewhere. She can't raise enough money to offset the power of the 527 organizations.
   

[pbrower2a]

Palin and Romney aren't the best candidates.  A new face needs to get some air time and get hype like Obama had.  Give Gingrich a microphone and watch him in the debates.

Such would be the equivalent of bringing a knife to a gun fight.  Gingrich has done little debating. He'd be rusty. President Obama would beat Newt Gingrich at the former Congressman's supposed strength.

The GOP nominee is likely to be someone who has done "long and distinguished service to the Party" because it is going to have other concerns -- like perhaps taking over the Senate (still possible if Obama wins) and protecting the House majority (which shows no signs of offering anything other than a rehash of a stale agenda defeated in 2006).