Poll: Another new frontrunner in GOP race?
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in the Republican Pary presidential race a new national poll.
Gingrich is at 28 percent in a poll released today by Public Policy Polling. Herman Cain, the frontrunner for the GOP nomination in several recent polls, was second in today’s PPP release at 25 percent. Mitt Romney stood at third with 18 percent.
Nobody in the rest of the field is in double digits – with Rick Perry at 6 percent, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul at 5 percent, and Jon Huntsman at 3 percent.
The trend in the PPP numbers has Gingrich up 13 points over the October PPP poll, with Cain down five points and Romney down four points.
Cain has been wounded somewhat by lingering questions over allegations of sexual harassment leveled by former employees at the National Restaurant Association, while Gingrich has seen an upswing in his favorability from June numbers that had him at a -13 net favorability rating (36 percent of voters expressing a favorable view, 49 percent expressing an unfavorable view) to a +45 net favorability (68 percent favorable, 23 percent unfavorable).
Poll: Obama/Romney a tossup
The latest Public Policy Polling survey of American voters has a hypothetical race between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney a dead heat – though Obama still maintains leads over the other top GOP contenders.
The Obama-Romney race stands at a 45 percent-to-45 percent tie in the PPP poll. Obama has lost four points from what had been a 49 percent-to-45 percent lead over Romney in the September PPP poll.
Romney’s strengths, according to the poll, lie in his narrow lead over Obama among independent voters and his strong showing among Republicans – 85 percent of whom say that they would support him in the general election. Herman Cain gets the support of 83 percent of Republicans in a hypothetical head-to-head with Obama, but none of the other top GOP candidates gets out of the 70s among Republican voters.
Cain actually leads among Republicans for the GOP presidential nomination, but trails Obama in a head-to-head by a 48 percent-to-42 percent margin. Rick Perry trails Obama 49 percent to 40 percent, and registered an alarming net-negative favorability rating, with 23 percent of voters saying they have a favorable opinion of him and 57 percent saying they have a negative opinion.
PPP: Perry has narrow lead over Obama in home state
Rick Perry can claim one early lead over Barack Obama in the polls – in his home state of Texas, though Perry’s lead there is much narrower than he’d like to admit.
Perry leads Obama among Texas voters by a 51 percent-to-44 percent margin, according to a poll released today by Public Policy Polling.
That’s actually an improvement over a June PPP poll that had Obama with a slim 47 percent-to-45 percent lead over Perry.
The updated poll still has Perry with a negative approval rating in Texas, with 45 percent of Texas voters approving of the job that he’s doing and 48 percent not approving.
Perry’s seven-point lead is about half the margin that Republican candidate John McCain won the state by in the 2008 presidential election.
Poll: Obama doubles lead over Perry … is voter concern over Social Security the reason why?
A new Public Policy Polling survey of voters has Barack Obama nearly doubling his lead over Texas Gov. Rick Perry as swing voters begin to express concerns about Perry’s comments on Social Security being a “Ponzi scheme.”
Obama led Perry in the polling by a 52 percent-to-41 percent margin in the recent PPP poll. Three weeks ago, PPP had Obama ahead of Perry by six points, 49 percent to 43 percent.
Inside the numbers, Perry is getting hammered by voters on his controversial views on Social Security. Just 20 percent of voters agree with his view of Social Security being a Ponzi scheme, with 70 percent disagreeing with the statement.
Voters split even more significantly on a related question in the polling on whether the federal government should end Social Security – 82 percent opposed and only 10 percent in favor.
Another interesting tidbit in the numbers: Democrats have moved more solidly in favor of Obama since Perry attained frontrunner status in the GOP field. Three weeks ago, Obama led among Democrats by an 81 percent-to-13 percent margin. This week’s poll has Obama ahead among the base by an 89 percent-to-9 percent tally.
Obama’s lead over Mitt Romney is much narrower in this week’s PPP poll – 49 percent to 45 percent.
Does Perry help boost Obama?
New polling by Public Policy Polling shows Texas Gov. Rick Perry moving into the frontrunner role for the Republican Party presidential nomination. A benefactor to the Perry surge could be President Barack Obama.
Obama leads Perry in a national PPP poll by a 49 percent-to-43 percent margin. The same polling has Obama tied at 45 percent with the former GOP race frontrunner, Mitt Romney.
“Rick Perry’s momentum in the Republican field is the best thing that’s happened to Barack Obama lately,” said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling. “The president would have an easier time winning re-election against him than Mitt Romney.”
A key reason: the conservative firebrand Perry fares poorly with independent voters, who view him negatively (29 percent approval, 55 percent disapproval). Obama as a result has a 56 percent-to-32 percent lead over Perry among independents.
The PPP poll had Obama leading Michele Bachmann by eight points (50 percent to 42 percent), Herman Cain by 10 points (49 percent to 39 percent), and Sarah Palin by 13 points (53 percent to 40 percent).
Chris Graham: Cain’s turn?
Posted by afp on October 25, 2011 · 2 Comments
Cain holds leads across the country in polls conducted by Public Policy Polling – in eight states of the nine that PPP has surveyed in the past two weeks.
And even in the one state that Cain trails in, Nevada, it’s only by one point, and he’s gained 21 points in Nevada since July there.
So that would be good news if you’re a Cain fan. The bad news for Cain and his fans – there aren’t a lot of what you’d call committed Cain supporters. The former pizza CEO lags behind Romney in voters who say they will definitely vote for him.
More bad news for those who want to see Mr. 9-9-9 get the Republican nomination – Cain is sorely lacking in terms of campaign organization. The Cain campaign, such as it is, seems as surprised as the rest of us at his recent surge in the polls, to the point that it’s now being forced to scramble to get an infrastructure in place to take advantage.
And then there’s the bad news for Rick Perry fans – the Texas governor’s fall from frontrunner to also-ran seems complete at this point. He’s at 6 percent – 6 percent! – in Nevada, where 59 percent of voters have an unfavorable opinion of him, and his numbers in other states are comparably bad.
Meanwhile, Bachmann (3 percent in Nevada, 5 percent in Wisconsin) is now officially an afterthought.
You ask me, Romney is the one sitting pretty. I didn’t use the setting the pace analogy in my lead here for nothing. The former Massachusetts governor seems content to let others get their moment or two in the glare of the lead of the pack as he continues to raise money and build campaign bases in the key battleground states.
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