Americans really wish they had elected Mitt Romney instead of Obama

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Americans really wish they had elected Mitt Romney instead of Obama

2014 Jul 28, 4:03am 25,700 views 108 comments

http://theweek.com/article/index/265418/speedreads-americans-really-wish-they-elected-mitt-romney-instead-of-obama

Americans are so down on President Obama at the moment that, if they could do the 2012 election all over again, they'd overwhelmingly back the former Massachusetts governor's bid. That's just one finding in a brutal CNN poll, released Sunday, which shows Romney topping Obama in a re-election rematch by a whopping nine-point margin, 53 percent to 44 percent. That's an even larger spread than CNN found in November, when a survey had Romney winning a redo 49 percent to 45 percent.

Two years ago, Obama won re-election with about 51 percent of the vote.

Of course, the poll should be taken with a grain of salt. While Obama is actually taking on the tough task of leading the nation, Romney is sitting comfortably on the sidelines. Still, the finding comes as foreign and domestic crises have sent Obama's approval rating tumbling back to 40 percent, per Gallup.

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Tenpoundbass @ 2014 Jul 28, 4:06am

zzyzzx says

That's just one finding in a brutal CNN poll

I saw that, but it wasn't from FOX so I didn't believe it.

zzyzzx @ 2014 Jul 28, 4:14am

Obligatory:

Bellingham Bill @ 2014 Jul 31, 9:59am

"whopping nine-point margin, 53 percent to 44 percent."

53 to 44 -- 5 people out of 100 allegedly switching.

One out of 20.

"Whopping" indeed. ::eyeroll::

real per-capita non-defense gov't spending.

People would like Obama more if he could open the spending taps like Bush did.

Well-played, GOP, well-played.

Dan8267 @ 2014 Jul 31, 10:22am

Yet another article written by a right-wing propaganda machine about a fantasy world with no bearing on ours.

marcus @ 2014 Jul 31, 11:25am

Is this by any chance a zzyzzx post ?

Why yes, yes it is.

Gettin a little one dimensional there zz. Just sayin.

That's okay. Please let us know when another survey comes out telling us how disappointed everyone is with Obama.

Also, let us know when the economy (especially employment and standard of living) is projected to improve a lot, so we can get a republican in there to take credit for it.

The last time the economy improved a lot was the 90s. But fortunately Ken Star was at work for a few years and managed to find a little dirt to stick to the guy, so they could impeach him. Still, I guess he has to get some credit.

6 c6ae @ 2014 Aug 1, 2:09am

bgamall4 says

I am no fan of Obama, holding him responsible for the Sandy Hook Hoax, but he doesn't seek as much war as the Republicans surely would.

The Sandy Hook HOAX?!?!

Shaman @ 2014 Jul 31, 12:14pm

If Marcus is talking about Clinton, let me remind all that it was Clinton who signed NAFTA, Clinton who gave China most favored nation trading status, Clinton who set the stage for massive offshoring and tax breaks for doing so, and Clinton who refused to go after Osama Bin Laden after he bombed our war ship. Clinton's presidency set the stage for the downfall of America. No republican could have done it better. The fact that the economy expanded was due to the tech industry really adding value and growing exponentially. With that kind of growth it was also simple to balance the budget, so that required no Herculean effort. Billy boy was a GOP placeholder, a Rhodes scholar sellout to the "Majestic" plan to topple America.

curious2 @ 2014 Jul 31, 12:35pm

For a minute, I feared that Americans might have forgotten what a catastrophic candidate Romnesia would have been. Then I saw the part of the poll comparing him to Hillary Clinton:

Clinton 55%
Romney 42%

In addition to a horrible platform, Republicans nominated literally the worst candidate in the country.

Ceffer @ 2014 Jul 31, 12:38pm

Romney has a much better golf swing than Obama, the Presidency was stolen from him.

HydroCabron @ 2014 Jul 31, 1:06pm

Call it Crazy says

In fact, you could fit those accomplishments on a small post-it-note and have a lot of space left over.

Hey, we can't all spend our lives wrecking companies, destroying jobs, and then use an alp of taxpayer money to stage a winter olympics!

11 Bm05211983 @ 2014 Jul 31, 2:52pm

Obama is a crook, socialist, left winged, welfare supporting terrorist.

Vicente @ 2014 Jul 31, 2:55pm

sbh says

No one thinks about Romney anymore. They're busy with Sarah Palin's pay per view Repub porn channel. Sex with a moose will make stunts with a donkey (get it?) seem boring.

For some reason it never occurred to me before, to search for Sarah Palin porn images. All I can say is wow!

indigenous @ 2014 Jul 31, 2:59pm

bgamall4 says

I am no fan of Obama, holding him responsible for the Sandy Hook Hoax, but he doesn't seek as much war as the Republicans surely would.

Horseshit, look at who caused the wars over the last century...

indigenous @ 2014 Jul 31, 3:01pm

Vicente says

For some reason it never occurred to me before, to search for Sarah Palin porn images. All I can say is wow!

SBH got his medication mixed up again...

Ceffer @ 2014 Jul 31, 3:45pm

What's this about Sarah Palin twerk decapitating a moose on Pay Per View?

That would show that she could grab our country's problems by the antlers.

Vicente @ 2014 Jul 31, 3:56pm

I think it's high time Sarah Palin took it to the next level.

JH @ 2014 Jul 31, 4:00pm

I wonder what the poll said in 2006.

Dan8267 @ 2014 Jul 31, 4:26pm

Vicente says

You jest, but Putin shares all of the Republicans' values. He's anti-gay, a religious zealot, has no problem violating the rights of women, is tough on crime where crime is anything that challenges his power, pretends to be a cowboy but comes off looking like a closeted homosexual, believes in strong-arming other nations with his military, doesn't give a rat's ass about the environment, sends the cops to beat up hippies, and lives in an all-white country.

To conservatives, he's like Jesus and Reagan put together in a single, delicious manwich.

Dan8267 @ 2014 Jul 31, 4:28pm

JH says