Pollster: PA Obama's Biggest Headache
Pennsylvania is "looking more and more like it could be a tough hold" for President Obama in 2012, according to a Public Policy Polling analysis based on three of its surveys of the state.
Pollster: PA Obama's Biggest Headache
Thomas Fitzgerald, Inquirer Politics Writer
Pennsylvania “is looking more and more like it could be a tough hold” for President Obama in the 2012 election, according to a Public Policy Polling analysis based on three of the firm’s surveys of the state.
Indeed, Pennsylvania may be the toughest state for the president’s re-election campaign, the pollsters say.
Obama’s state approval rating is 46 percent, to 48 percent disapproval, in the latest PPP poll, and he has been “underwater” in all three of the automated surveys it has run there so far in 2011.
The best Obama can muster in a hypothetical head-to-head Pennsylvania matchup with Republican front-runner Mitt Romney is a tie. This is a state he carried by 10 percentage points in 2008, despite having lost the Democratic primary to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“Obama's poll numbers are worse in Pennsylvania than they are in places like Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, and New Mexico - all states that went Republican in 2004 even as Pennsylvania voted Democratic,” pollster Tom Jepsen wrote in his analysis. “The President's persistently poor numbers in a state that's gone Democratic in every Presidential election for the last 24 years probably make Pennsylvania the place where Obama should be most concerned about his current standing.”
Mr. Obama is finding out that governing is significantly harder than campaigning.
He now has a record ... and it's not very good.— yahzooman- He figure out what he needs to do right after he plays a few more rounds of golf and takes a few more vacations.— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
- Hanging around with Nutter isn't going to help him in Philly.— union guy
- Nutter got what percentage in the primary? And he'll probably pull 75-80% in November. Must be widely hated, huh. — chuck.goodwin
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Mr. O is now pandering to the Mexican illegals and European liberals by lobbying for a stay of execution for the dirtbag in Texas...thank god Texas gave the guy the needle anyway with a little blessing from the US supreme court...- umm, the Bush administration took exactly the same position in the same case. It'll be kind of hard to complain about Americans abroad being denied contact with the embassy when they're arrested when we won't do the same for foreigners here. — chuck.goodwin
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- Obama stinks but will get re-elected. Don't forget we re-elected Dubya Bush.— Don Cornelius
- Yes he has been vacation more than any recent President, oh wait...... maybe not.
- No one in the current pool of Repub candidates is any better and in reality, I for one would like a nice clean slate in 4 years then trying to reelect a poor Republican candidate.— sjnative94
- "He figure out what he needs to do right after he plays a few more rounds of golf and takes a few more vacations." This just in: George W. Bush is no longer president.— BillHicksLives!
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