What's the problem? They don't have a candidate that voters like according to a revealing new poll from Rasmussen. Hillary Clinton beats them all. Easily.
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Outside of Ron Paul, who wins virtually every Republican straw poll he is allowed to enter (but they've been excluding him lately), there is no viable candidate to battle Obama or perhaps even Hillary Clinton in 2012.
Romney, Gingrich and Palin are dead on arrival. Yes, Sarah Palin's poll numbers are by far the worst of the three. So who's left? Scott Brown? I seriously doubt it. Pawlenty. Good luck with that. Paul Ryan from Wisconsin? Gary Johnson from New Mexico?
Any ideas? Me neither. It's the Republican Presidential problem highlighted below.
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New poll from Rasmussen:
U.S. voters think Hillary Clinton is more qualified to be president than Barack Obama, but most believe that both Democrats are more fit for the White House than three top Republicans interested in the job.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 57% of voters feel Clinton is qualified to be president, but 34% disagree and say she is not.
As for President Obama, 51% say he is fit for the job. However, 44% say he is not qualified to be president, even though he has now served 17 months in the job.
Nearly as many (49%) say former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, an unsuccessful candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, is qualified to be president of the United States. Thirty-two percent (32%) say Romney is not qualified, but another 20% are not sure.
Just 35% of voters say former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is qualified to be the nation’s chief executive. Nearly half (48%) say Gingrich is not fit for the office. Seventeen percent (17%) are undecided.
As for Sarah Palin, ex-governor of Alaska and the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, only 26% feel she is qualified to be president, but 61% do not. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.
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