POLL: President Obama dominates the "lunch primary"!

[jefferson_dem]

Lunching with 2012 candidates

A new Sachs/Mason Dixon poll asks Americans "Who would you rather have lunch with?"

All RESPONDENTS:

1. Barack Obama 53%

2. Sarah Palin 16%

3. Mitt Romney 9%

4. Ron Paul 6%

5. Tim Pawlenty 3%

6. Newt Gingrich 2%

7. Michele Bachmann 1%

Among DEMOCRATS:

1. Barack Obama 85%

2. Sarah Palin 5%

3. Mitt Romney 2%

4. Ron Paul 1%

Among REPUBLICANS:

1. Sarah Palin 27%

2. Barack Obama 25%

3. Mitt Romney 19%

4. Ron Paul 9%

5. Tim Pawlenty 7%

6. Newt Gingrich 4%

7. Michele Bachmann 3%

Among INDEPENDENTS:

1. Barack Obama 48%

2. Sarah Palin 16%

3. Mitt Romney 8%

4. Ron Paul 7%

5. Tim Pawlenty 3%

6. Newt Gingrich 2%

7. Michele Bachmann 1%

http://gop12.thehill.com/2011/05/lunching-with-2012-candidates.html

[Gman]

1. After Obama, my second choice would be Bill Clinton

My first choice for who to go drink beer with would be Clinton.

[JAnthony]

2. What is this thing with Republicans wanting to lunch with Sarah Palin?

Do they all live under a rock? Or are they all men between 39-90 who want more than a lunch with her?

[VWolf]

5. The latter n/t

[NYC Liberal]

6. What's this with DEMOCRATS wanting to lunch with Palin?

Among DEMOCRATS:

1. Barack Obama 85%

2. Sarah Palin 5%

I would hope those 5% of Democrats want to lunch with her to be able to tell her to her face that she's a moron.

[BR_Parkway]

11. I'm a gay man and she'd be first on my list after O - just to see how

a conversation in person would go - the same rambling thoughts crookedly jointed together. Hell, just to see if she could speak in something besides talking points. I think it would be fascinating, you know, like driving by a car wreck...

[CakeGrrl]

21. I'm impressed that Obama almost tops the REPUBLICAN list

but that depends entirely on what they want to discuss.

:o

[Mopar151]

22. Fresh killed meat....n/t

[Kind of Blue]

3. Fun poll and pretty telling, too.

Good to see the GOP in bad shape with Obama basically tying with Palin. Excellent numbers from the Indies.
Cute picture. Thanks and KnR.

[young but wise]

4. That photo is hilarious.

[struggle4progress]

7. I read these results as splitting the electorate 20% D, 60% I, 20% R. But only 625 were polled,

about one person polled per elector. So its not telling us much

[jefferson_dem]

8. That is a sufficient sample size, providing a margin of error of around +/- 3.5 points.

Even with that room for error, the results are very telling indeed.

[struggle4progress]

10. Sufficient for what purpose? Media often provides us with such "national" results,

and you may be right that the sample size is adequate for such blurry summaries

But Congressional and Presidential elections cannot be predicted from such vague data: one needs a finer-grained picture -- because (for example) there's no way to reliably estimate electoral college results from gross summary polls

[jefferson_dem]

12. Sufficient to make inferences about the general population...given a particular margin of error.

600+ cases in a sample is not unusual.

Besides, nobody is predicting any election results here. It's just a fun poll...that speaks volumes (in my opinion).

[craigmatic]

9. So Obama is 25% among republicans? That's huge.

[Enrique]

13. we used to make fun of these polls

"who would you rather have a beer with" etc.

A sign of the stupidity of the media, etc.

Now I guess media stupidity is a good thing. :shrug:

[jefferson_dem]

15. Nah. I never made fun of them.

Sure is a sign o' the times though... Welcome to politics American style. And our guy is *winning*. :fistbump:

[Drunken Irishman]

19. Some dismissed 'em and they proved important...

A big reason why Bush was so successful in 2000 is that more Americans, for whatever reason, wanted to sit down and have a beer with him.

We dismissed those polls as silly - but they played a role in how some people voted. Right or not, Americans want to like their president - regardless of party.

Is the stupidity a good thing? Of course not. Americans shouldn't base their vote on whether they want to eat lunch with him/her. But they do and until that isn't an issue, I'd rather have our guy at the top than at the bottom - where Kerry and Gore sat in similar polls back in 2004 & 2000.

[southernyankeebelle]

14. I would love to eat with the Obamas and the Clintons with me and my husband. Just wishing.

[AtomicKitten]

16. He's tucking that napkin in like he means business. Best stand clear.

[wysingm]

17. It's gumbo!

need I say more

[Wait Wut]

18. Crappy list.

I didn't even have to think about my answer. Throw someone in there that I might consider besides Pres. Obama.

Sarah? She'd end up with a fork in her eye as soon as she let that harpy voice escape her lips.

Mittens? I'd fall asleep in my soup and wake up in a dumpster. There's something odd about that man...

Ron? Oh hell. I'd beat the old man into a coma when he started spewing his clueless rhetoric and faux anti-Gov crap.

Timmy? I'd steal all his fries. "Look over there!!"...swipe. Yep, he's that easy.

Newter? I'd be terrified that he'd propose marriage and I'd be hypnotized by the lovely voices of Abba singing "Dancing Queen".

Michele? BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That could be fun. I'd start talking about Satanism or some shit just to get her to make that freaky face!

[Stuckinthebush]

20. Lunch with Palin

That sounds like a horror movie title.

[DCBob]

23. Those high numbers for Independents could be significant.

Funny Michele Bachman is dead last... I guess most people expect they would puke their lunch eating with that moran.

[krabigirl]

24. None of the above. No thanks.