In case you missed it; 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has correctly called the Republican plan to end Medicare a “radical change,” “right wing social engineering,” and “too big a jump” among other things. 235 Republicans in the House voted to end Medicare & drastically cut Medicaid in April (and to make it even [...]

President Obama leads all potential 2012 GOP challengers in a new PPP poll of Virginia voters. Obama 48%, Mitt Romney 42% Obama 51%, Mike Huckabee 43% Obama 51%, Newt Gingrich 39% Obama 54%, Sarah Palin 35% This is very good news for the President because it’s extremely unlikely that the Republicans can win the Presidency [...]

Virginia Democratic Senator Jim Webb is not running for reelection in 2012. Webb beat Republican George Allen in 2006 and would have likely faced Allen in a rematch in ’12 if he were to run again because Allen will probably be the GOP nominee. Former Virginia Governor and current DNC Chairman Tim Kaine is considered [...]

If President Obama wins either Florida or North Carolina he is very likely to win reelection. New polling from PPP has the President up in both states against all four leading GOP candidates (with one exception: Huckabee is up by 1% point in NC.) Florida Obama 46% Mitt Romney 44% Obama 49% Mike Huckabee 44% [...]

A new poll from Washington Post/ABC News of possible 2012 Presidential matchups includes good news for President Obama and very bad news for Sarah Palin. Not only does President Obama beat Alaska’s former half term Governor Sarah Palin 53% to 40% in a head to head general election matchup, but 59% of Americans say that [...]

A new national Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has President Obama ahead of all Republican opponents. Here are the numbers: Obama 42% Unnamed Republican 39% Obama 47% Mitt Romney 40% Obama 47% John Thune 27% Obama 55% Sarah Palin 33% And Obama has these leads against his Republican opponents despite just a 45% approval rating [...]

Despite a weak approval rating (47% approve, 46% disapprove) in Wisconsin, President Obama holds leads in this state over all of the top Republican candidates in potential 2012 matchups according to the latest PPP poll. The Numbers Obama 46%, Mitt Romney 42% Obama 47%, Mike Huckabee 41% Obama 50%, Newt Gingrich 41% Obama 52%, Sarah [...]

While President Obama’s current approval ratings are hovering around a not so great 45% (the 44% on Gallup on June 10 being his lowest point yet) he is still up against all prospective 2012 Republican challengers according to a new poll from PPP. These are the head to head matchups (in order of how well [...]

Amazingly Fox News still claims to be an actual news organization that is “fair & balanced” even though there are currently four probable 2012 Republican candidates for President working for the network: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, & Rick Santorum. To understand the absurdity of this situation, imagine if Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, & [...]

In a new CNN poll President Obama leads each of the top four Republican candidates for 2012 (results on the poll for the Republican primary below) by at least 8% points. Obama 53%, Mitt Romney 45% Obama 54%, Mike Huckabee 45% Obama 55%, Sarah Palin 42% Obama 55%, Newt Gingrich 43% Each head to head [...]