America's election gets underway

There is a year to go until Americans vote on whether or not to expel Barack Obama from the White House. That's a good time for us to present the latest charts of the contest

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[qiranwang]

is a sales tax a good idea at this time? i thought they r trying to encourage spending.

[dammit9207]

economist, you forgot to poll ron pauls tax plan of zero income tax, zero corporate tax, and zero loopholes

[lifefullofwords]

Matching Obama's poll numbers against a generic Republican's is not helpful in predicting the presidential election. The relevant polling numbers are the Obama vs. individual candidates numbers. He trounces all of the candidates except Romney, who he usually has a slight advantage over but sometimes they break even or Romney is a couple of points ahead. That said, even those numbers aren't very accurate a year out. A lot of people still haven't turned into the election and won't til next Spring.

[Landofjello]

did you use a video editing software to make those charts, or did you use a statistics software of some sort??

[KiloSierraAlpha]

Ron Paul is the only credible candidate there.

[Balian49]

Now lets factor in Rick Perry's latest fail...

[dave19941000]

Although it is right about the stats, they neglect to mention that most of the 43% of disapprove of Healthcare do so because it does not go far enough.

[DiNatalli]

Commies don't relinquish power once they've gain it. U really think they will risk having their golden boys lose an election? Something big will happen to cause elections to b suspended. No way r they just gonna risk anothe bush taking power.

[AnHumanOnTheInternet]

Regrettably John Huntsman is simply not republican enough to ever get the nomination.