Harris Poll finds only 2 GOP candidates can beat Obama - Mitt Romney and Ron Paul

[victoryparty]

The president edges Perry 51-49 but falls to Romney, 53-47, and Paul, 51-49. Full report, with analysis:

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10459734-harris-poll-romney-paul-the-only-2-gop-candidates-who-could-beat-obama

[FSogol]

1. Unrec for BS poll.

From Wiki: Harris Interactive (NASDAQ: HPOL), headquartered in New York, New York, is a *custom market* research firm...

Wonder who Novartis wants, Romney or Paul. :shrug:

[INdemo]

2. So which one are you voting for?..

No way and just where did you dig up this link??This is from some blogger that made them self feel good by reporting some teabagger could beat Obama..Is the election next week..Oh no its November 2nd forgot of 2012.Ron Paul...I think maybe they would like this OP over on the Freeper site.

[FSogol]

3. It is the orginal poster's homepage according to his profile.

:shrug:

[victoryparty]

4. the author of this post tells his story

I am an independent journalist and longtime member of the Democratic Underground who has contributed to this site in the past. I worked in daily print journalism for 15-plus years before getting laid off in 2006. Yes, I benefit (barely) from people reading my articles. I wish I were on salary somewhere, but that is not the case. So I am working for myself via the platform of Allvoices.com and trying to produce original, interesting content in the process.

I found the material for the story at PR Newswire and added my own analysis. BTW, I voted for Obama over John McCain in 2008. I am in the business of informing, not polarizing, so please understand that I am simply conveying information. My apologies if you find it upsetting.

If you want to know more about who I am and how I have voted in the past, please see:

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4936757-punditty-reveals-presidential-voting-record-gets-nostalgic-over-dukakis

[FSogol]

6. Cool. (Athought I still think the poll is bs.) n/t

[krawhitham]

7. 3 years and 403 posts is not a long time

I do not know what that says about your journalistic ability but it says something

[FSogol]

10. What passes then? Is a month shy of 5 years & 2253 posts okay?

:shrug:

[LiberalFighter]

9. Cool too.. Thanks for providing info. It helps you.

But for the most part polls are useless at this time.

[Davis_X_Machina]

5. Only an immediate..

...promise by Obama to legalize weed and polygamy can save us!

[GSLevel9]

8. a 6 point national deficit equates to a 100 electoral vote drubbing. nt

[Marsala]

11. Those results are ridiculous

The Romney one is plausible, but Perry would never be that close to Obama, especially since he melted down.

[Vogon_Glory]

12. Mitt Romney Win?, Mebbe Not

Would Mitt Romney gather in all those Dixie electoral votes if he wins the GOP nomination?

Mebbe not. As we have seen in the storm of abuse thrown at President Obama concerning his religious affiliation, religious bigotry is alive and well among the Radical Right.

A good chunk of the Radical Right's voting strength is among Evangelical Protestant Christians. As absurd as this may seem among secular-minded liberals and open-minded or secular-minded journalists, many Evangelical Christians are hostile to Mitt Romney's Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints. They may vote accordingly. They see Mormonism as an un-Christian cult, and that might very well inspire a lot of Evangelicals to head to the sidelines.

It is three years since President Obama has been inaugurated. In spite of the continuing (but muted) nastiness among the Radical Right concerning President Obama's being a secret Muslim, I think at least some among the Evangelicals have probably changed their minds and have concluded that President Obama might just be a Christian after all. That part of the Religious Right voting bloc might find itself in the quandary of having to vote for a "cultist" whose political agenda they likeon the one hand or voting for someone who has demonstrated himself to be a Christian after all, even if they hate many of his policies.

I suspect that there's a chance that at least SOME of those Religious Right voters might just stay home in 2012 rather than vote for a "cultist."

If enough Afro-Americans and soured-Tea whites turn out to vote for President Obama while the 'baggers stay home, who knows what might happen in the South and Texas?

[Hawkowl]

13. Romney-Paul ticket would crush Obama-Biden. nt

[ProSense]

14. Yeah,

"Romney-Paul ticket would crush Obama-Biden"

...if only RWingers and lunatics were voting.

Here's the most important thing to know about this poll

This Harris Poll was conducted online within the United States between September 12 and 19, 2011 among 2,462 adults (aged 18 and over). Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online.

All sample surveys and polls, whether or not they use probability sampling, are subject to multiple sources of error which are most often not possible to quantify or estimate, including sampling error, coverage error, error associated with nonresponse, error associated with question wording and response options, and post-survey weighting and adjustments. Therefore, Harris Interactive avoids the words "margin of error" as they are misleading. All that can be calculated are different possible sampling errors with different probabilities for pure, unweighted, random samples with 100% response rates. These are only theoretical because no published polls come close to this ideal.

Respondents for this survey were selected from among those who have agreed to participate in Harris Interactive surveys. The data have been weighted to reflect the composition of the adult population. Because the sample is based on those who agreed to participate in the Harris Interactive panel, no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.

Summary, it's bullshit!

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. Yup. If we were voting online, and Harris "Interactive" were counting the votes.

Good luck with that!:rofl:

[totodeinhere]

15. Any poll this early is meaningless. But having said that I continue to be

amused by posters at DU who call any poll whose results they don't like BS while cheering any poll whose results they do like.

According to some it seems that any poll showing a Republican winning is BS, yet like we found out in November 2010 sometimes they do win.

[Vinca]

17. OMG - imagine a Ron Paul win. The country would turn into Somalia.