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Poll: Obama Beats Romney, Palin, and Dirty Harry

By Paul Bedard

July 27, 2010 RSS Feed Print

It's President Obama who's saying "go ahead, make my day" as he squares off with potential 2012 Republican presidential challengers.

According to a new Zogby Interactive poll just provided to Washington Whispers, the president would whip all "big name" Republicans, including Hollywood GOP-ers like Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck, and Chuck Norris.

The poll of 8,487 likely voters taken July 16-19 was the idea of a Zogby fan. "A reader E-mailed and asked us to test some big Hollywood Republicans and we thought it was a good idea," said Zogby, who does the weekly Washington Whispers Obama Report Card.

For good measure, the pollster sifted in some expected 2012 presidential challengers like Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin and found that Obama would best them and former President Bush. [See a slide show of 10 reasons Palin would make a good president.]

Here are the results:

Obama Vs Sarah Palin

    48           37

Obama Vs Mitt Romney

    45           43

Obama Vs Mike Huckabee

    46           37

Obama Vs George W. Bush

    47           38

Obama Vs Tom Selleck

    46           23

Obama Vs Clint Eastwood

    45           28

Obama Vs Chuck Norris

    45           29

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It's time to take back our country. "Dump the Dems" (Dirty Harry etc in '10, Barry & his Czars in '12), and elect Mitt to help us get out of this socialist mess.

Read more: h ttp://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/07/obama-to-voters-things-could-be-worse.php#ixzz0uoN9vzrv

"Americans don't have selective memory," Obama told NBC News recently. “They'll remember the policies that got us into this mess as well."

Let’s help them remember the Democrats' Community Reinvestment Act which forced banks to make loans people like then HUD Sect Andrew Cuomo knew would end up in default. A liberal Congress handed the financial industry lemons...and it made toxic (asset) lemonade. While Frank-n-Dodd's financial reforms leaves Fannie and Freddie unrepentant. Heck of a job Barry.

Remember the day...January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time: The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77. The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%. The Unemployment rate was 4.6%. George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!

Remember the day...January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!!!

THANK YOU DEMOCRATS for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac! (BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was Financially risky for the US economy):

And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac???? OBAMA. And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie??? The HYPOCRITE in Chief Obama

So when a LIB tries to blame Bush...REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!

Obama acts like a frat boy and is a joke! Once Romney "the 45th Pres" is in the Oval Office ALL Americans will be proud of their country again. We must elect conservatives in '10, so President Romney can have a Congress to help him turn this country around in '12.

AZhombre of AZ 2:37AM July 28, 2010

Our nation elected a man who's entire work experience has been as a lawyer or as a politician constantly running for higher office. He's been successful at those two gigs, but a problem solver he is definitely not. Lawyers specialize in placing blame and demanding recompense. Politicians are in constant campaign mode. Obama's whole presidency so far can be summed up as playing the blame game and a "perpetual campaign mode"

Contrast that to Romney who is a much better leader/executive/manager than he is a campaigner/politician. He should be in there right now. I thought he was hands down the best candidate the GOP had to offer last cycle, but I'm not sure anyone could have derailed the "Hope for Change" express in those years of Bush Fatigue. I guess sometimes things happen for a reason, and the best man didn't win last time. Just as it took a Jimmy Carter to give us a Ronald Reagan, it's going to take Barack Obama to give us Mitt Romney. If the GOP base will wise up and select the best man able to #1 beat Obama and #2 actually govern and fix the problems then we'll all be the better for it. However, I fear instead a quixotal quest of nominating the most idealogically/religiously acceptable candidate to the far right of the party and losing the ability to to both.

Jeff Fuller of LA 1:06AM July 28, 2010

Obama and Romney - virtually a tie half way into Obama's presidency. And Romney hasn't announced that he'll run.

Bart of CA 9:58PM July 27, 2010

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