Pew (National): Obama beats Romney 54-42, beats Santorum 57-39

[ajb]

Obama job approval numbers 50-41; 45-42 with independents.


http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2218/mitt-romney-rick-santorum-newt-gingrich-ron-paul-barack-obama-health-care-law-gas-prices-republican-presidential-primary-race-gop-democratic-enthusiasm-gap

[Miles]

Seems slightly generous to me.

[Tender Branson]

Nope.

This poll is about as ridiculous as the Rasmussen polls.

[ajb]

This is why it's important to average polls. If we just looked at the CBS/NYT poll from a few days ago, Obama's support dropped in the past month; for Pew he's shown a modest increase. The net result suggests nothing much has changed, which after all seems about right.

[ajb]

Fun facts from the Pew Poll:

"About a third (35%) of white evangelical Protestant Republicans say Santorum is evangelical; this contrasts with just 9% of white mainline Protestants and 11% of Catholics. In fact, as many white evangelical Republicans believe Santorum is an evangelical Christian (35%) as know that he is Catholic (34%)."

http://www.people-press.org/2012/03/13/section-1-the-gop-primary/

[หมูเด้ง]

The people's perception of Santorum's faith is a lot like people's perception of my ethnicity. Some people say I'm a regular white person, others think I am ethnic (mixed breed from some subtropical or arid area). I am half Italian. The similarity is how the public percieves the entire North/South Europe Dichotomy. I mean, "Santorum". Its the rare Italian name that doesn't end in a vowel but still ends in a Latin suffix.