Despite the President’s approval ratings slipping below 50% for the first time recently, Obama still leads his potential 2012 GOP challengers in head to head match-ups in a new set of PPP polls: Obama 49% Mike Huckabee 44% Obama 48% Mitt Romney 43% Obama 51% Sarah Palin 43% Obama 46% Ron Paul 38%

The media seems far more focused on Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney seems to be seen as “next in line” for the Republican nomination but the latest Gallup polling shows Mike Huckabee may actually be the 2012 front runner at this point (a full 3 years from the 2012 general election!) According to this poll [...]

A new Marist poll of a potential head to head match-up between Sarah Palin (as the GOP nominee) and Barack Obama (running for his 2nd term) in the 2012 Presidential election has Obama way out ahead of Palin. Overall: Obama 56%, Palin 33%, Undecided 11% Democrats: Obama 92%, Palin 4%, Undecided 4% Republicans: Obama 20%, [...]

According to this new Gallup poll the front runners for 2012 for the Republican Presidential nomination are Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, & Mike Huckabee. All three of these people played a big part in the 2008 contests so these results are no big surprise that they’re in front in such a poll but it also [...]

Many of us have a hard time imagining why someone as obviously unqualified as Sarah Palin would even be considered as a possible nominee for President but recent polling has shown that she actually appears to have a pretty good shot at winning the 2012 Republican nomination. 35% of Republicans say they would be “very [...]

The title of this website has been 2008 Presidential Candidates since I launched it in 2007. Today I’m changing it to 2012 Presidential Candidates. Presidential politics is pretty much a perpetual thing. So who else is likely to be a 2012 Presidential Candidate other than President Obama? I think at this point there are three [...]

President Obama’s speech Tuesday night has won him back a significant amount of support according to the latest approval ratings poll from Gallup. Obama’s approval rating rose from a low of 59% to 67%. Certainly the 2012 election is still far off in the distance but as of right now it’s hard to imagine the [...]

It’s now only 8 days away from the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Thus far most Americans are pleased with Obama’s performance as President-elect. According to Rasmussen he currently has a 67% approval rating. 2012 will likely be a referendum on Obama’s performance during his first term as [...]

So far most Americans seem to be impressed with how President-elect Obama is handling things. It’s now been a full month since he was elected (and it’s still over six weeks until he actually takes office) and his Rasmussen approval rating is now sitting at 66%. Perhaps most impressive is how strong disapproval (certainly coming [...]

With the massive failure of George W. Bush’s presidency over the last 8 years and failure of the GOP’s usual character assassinations during this election, the Republican party finds themselves in danger of becoming a fringe party at worst and a regional party at best. If the nonsensical reaction to Obama’s landslide victory is any [...]