Obama Doesn’t Do Much Better Than Tying Unnamed Republican Opponent In New Poll

It’s a statistical dead heat in a match up between Barack Obama and nobody. Heh.

Politico: President Barack Obama only leads a generic Republican candidate by 2 percentage points in a potential 2012 match up, according to a new Gallup Poll out Thursday that also shows a continued drift of independents from Democrats. 

Obama leads 44 percent to 42 percent, a statistical dead heat, against a nameless Republican, according to the survey of 1,025 adults nationwide. 

Not surprisingly, the poll shows that Democrats strongly believe the president should be reelected, while Republicans would like to see one of their own in the White House.

But among independent voters, 45 percent would back a Republican and only 31 percent would favor the president. Twenty-four percent of independents are not sure if they would vote for Obama or a Republican candidate.

Oh, and Americans are really angry at the federal government, even though most of them don’t know what the Tea Party movement is all about. Hint: it’s made up of people who are angry at the federal government.

Via Memeorandum