Two items:
Rasmussen reports that Obama loses in a match up against "the generic Republican."
A generic Republican candidate now holds a five-point lead over President Obama in a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup for the week ending Sunday, Jan. 15.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters would support the generic Republican candidate if the presidential election were held today, while 42% would vote for Obama. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided.
Nancy Pelosi says that she knows Mitt Romney can't win against Obama.
“If the far right thought that Romney could win, they might be more enthusiastic about him,” Pelosi told POLITICO’s Mike Allen during Tuesday’s Playbook Breakfast. “But they question what he stands for and they don’t think he’s going to win. So what’s the sell? I’m not sure he knows what he stands for, and that makes it harder too.”
But according to the most recent CBS poll, among primary voters nationwide Romney draws slightly more support from the Tea Party than from non-Tea Party voters. On top of that he draws more Tea Party support than any of the rest of the Republican candidates.
Pelosi doesn't understand that Mitt Romney is "the generic Republican." Romney is not the Tea Party's ideal candidate. So, why does he get more Tea Party support than any of the rest of the field? It's precisely because Tea Partiers believe he can win.
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