Can Underdog Barack Obama catch Newt Gingrich?

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

  “I’m absolutely confident we’re going to win this thing,” Barack Hussein Obama whistled past the graveyard and told a gathering of 50 people at Spike Lee’s house the other night. 

Apparently Barack hasn’t read the polls in quite a while, but then again neither have the likes of Karl Rove Ann Coulter or George Will.

 Just a month ago in a Christmas week release designed to make certain it was lost, Gallup unveiled an ugly picture for Barack Obama and the Republican establishment. Gallup says there is not only a high level of enthusiasm for throwing Obama out (64% of conservative Republicans are very enthusiastic about voting next November) but there is an alarmingly low amount of energy within Obama’s core voters – “non- White” enthusiasm is at just 32%. 

Also included in Gallup’s report based on its findings in Obama’s 12 absolutely must have states, was news that must tighten Karl Roves stomach muscles. While they found Willard Romney leading Barack Obama 48/43, it also found Newt Gingrich leading Obama 48/45 in a general election matchup.    

Adding to Obama’s foes are the sharp drop in the number of voters who self-identify as Democrats and the increase in the self-identified Independents. In 2008 the electorate was 35% Democrat. Today that number has fallen to 30%. While this was happening the number of Independents has grown from 35% to 42%.

South Carolina’s results dispelled all of the Republican establishment’s arguments about “Only Romney can beat Obama.”

 In South Carolina which allows crossover voting, Gingrich won in every category of voter worth wining including a few that were especially significant.  He got more than double Romney’s share of the votes among the very conservative who made up the largest plurality of voters.  This is especially bad for Romney since Republican primaries draw the most conservative Republican to the polls.          

 Today Newt Gingrich is behind Barack Obama 50/48 in the latest Gallup national survey.  This is a 4 point improvement for Gingrich since last month. In the meanwhile whatever good that could happen to Gingrich has happened and Romney is fading.

 The question for the Republican establishment to answer is: how could Gingrich who is now in a statistical tie with Obama still be called “unelectable”?  The answer he cannot.

The real question, the honest unasked question, is can Barack Obama who is now the underdog catch Newt Gingrich?

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To read more use these links:

   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/politics/confident-obama-knows-wild-cards-can-loom-large.html

 http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Gallup-swing-Obama-Romney/2011/12/13/id/420794

 http://elections.msnbc.msn.com/ns/politics/2012/south-carolina/republican/primary/

 http://www.gallup.com/poll/election.aspx

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This day in history January 25

1993: In an act of Islamist terror a Muslim assassin shot five CIA employees killing two outside the entrance to CIA headquarters at Langley Virginia. One month later on Feb. 26^th the Islamists attacked the World Trade Center and the cowardly Democrat Bill Clinton ordered both attacks to be treated as common street crimes with special victims.   

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