Handmade Anti-Obama Sign Currently Frontrunner For Republican Presidential Nomination (Article)
by shap on June 10, 2011. [B-Roll,Humor Pieces,Smack Channels]
This article from The Onion handicaps the current state of the 2012 race for the Republican Presidential nomination and introduces a new frontrunner. This rising hotshot has the straight-edged good looks of a Mitt Romney and the substance and depth of a Sarah Palin. Can anyone say Ronald Reagan 2.0?
Handmade Anti-Obama Sign Currently Frontrunner For Republican Presidential Nomination from The Onion
WASHINGTON—According to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted this week, a homemade anti-Obama sign has surged to the front of the 2012 Republican presidential field, emerging as the clear favorite to earn the party’s nomination in next year’s primaries.
The telephone survey of 773 likely voters indicated the sign, a piece of poster board bearing the handwritten phrase “NOBAMA 2012″ in bold red letters, would defeat former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, its nearest rival, by a landslide 17 percentage points if the primaries were held today. The poll also found the sign had a “favorable” or “highly favorable” rating among 94 percent of registered Republicans, a figure greater than all other presumptive GOP candidates combined.
“We’re seeing that voters find the sign more charismatic, more likeable, and much more engaging than other Republican candidates,” said political analyst Mark Halperin…
