On December 20, a Washington Post-ABC News Poll was released for the general election presidential race. The poll assumes that Ron Paul were running against both major party nominees, and tested that scenario against an Obama-Gingrich race and also against an Obama-Romney race. No matter which of the two is the Republican nominee, Paul is at 21%. See this story.
The results: Obama 42%, Romney 32%, Paul 21%, other or undecided 5%. Alternatively, Obama 43%, Gingrich 32%, Paul 21%, other or undecided 4%.
I’d love to see Ron Paul run for President as a minor party or independent candidate if he does not get the Republican nomination (which unfortunately, he probably will not get), especially if he ran as a Libertarian Party candidate.
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How many TRILLIONS would the Donkeys give to Paul ???
DIVIDE AND CONQUER.
WORKED IN 1860 AND 1992.
Can work in ANY gerrymander election.
An Obama-Romney-Paul match-up was also just tested by Democratic pollster PPP:
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/12/obama-trails-romney.html
They have Paul at 17%. Thanks, BAN, for the heads-up on the Post/ABC poll.
The PPP survey asked about Rocky Anderson and Bernie Sanders, but not Jill Stein. It would be interesting to see what would happen if they asked about more than just three candidates, but I suppose it is better than asking about only two. Shaping up to be an interesting election.
Q15 If the candidates for President next year were
Democrat Barack Obama, Republican Mitt
Romney, and independent Rocky Anderson,
who would you vote for?
Barack Obama………. 44%
Mitt Romney………. 43%
Rocky Anderson………. 4%
Undecided………. 8%
Q18 If the candidates for President next year were
Democrat Barack Obama, Republican Mitt
Romney, and independent Bernie Sanders,
who would you vote for?
Barack Obama………. 42%
Mitt Romney………. 42%
Bernie Sanders ………. 7%
Undecided………. 9%
Can polls this early count towards debate qualification later?
#6, no. The polls must be in the month before the debate invitation is pending.
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