Poll Watch: Mixed Reviews in Missouri for Obama
Poll Watch: Mixed Reviews in Missouri for Obama
"Barack Obama’s best chance to win Missouri may have passed…unless the Republicans nominate Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich. After losing the state by the smallest of margins in 2008 Obama is now unpopular in the state, with 52% of voters disapproving of him to only 43% who approve. He trails Mike Huckabee by 7 points (49-42) and Mitt Romney by 6 points (47-41) in hypothetical match ups. But Palin and Gingrich are even more unpopular in the state than he is and as a result he leads Palin by a 46-43 margin and trails Gingrich only 45-44. Huckabee is the only one of the Republicans Missouri voters are particularly fond of. 51% have a favorable opinion of him to only 29% with a negative one. He’s pretty universally well liked with Republicans, a quarter of Democrats view him positively, and with independents he’s at a 46/27 spread. All the rest of the Republicans have negative favorability numbers, with them all following the same formula: Democratic voters dislike them more strongly than GOP ones like them and they all get negative reviews from independents. Romney’s favorability is a -12 spread (30/42), Palin’s is -14 (39/53), and Gingrich’s is -15 (33/48)."