Thread: Newsmax Poll: Donald Trump Overwhelms Obama, GOP Field

Newsmax Poll: Donald Trump Overwhelms Obama, GOP Field in 2012 Race

Monday, 11 Apr 2011 05:18 PM
By Jim Meyers

An Internet poll sponsored by Newsmax.com reveals that Americans overwhelmingly favor Donald Trump as their preferred candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

Online participants in the poll, which has drawn more than 550,000 responses, also support Trump by a wide margin in a head-to-head matchup with President Barack Obama.

If the election were held today, Trump would beat Obama in a landslide, 68 to 13 percent. But that lead is just as sizeable when Trump faces off against the best and the brightest in the oft-mentioned field of GOP contenders for 2012.

Trump takes 57 percent of the vote in a field including Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty. His closest competitor, according to the poll, is former Massachusetts Gov. Romney with 9 percent of the vote. (See full poll results below — and you can still vote in the Trump poll — Click Here Now.)

The Newsmax online survey, a non-scientific poll, comes as Obama advisers launched their own attacks last weekend on Trump, who has surged in several polls over the last several weeks as he's questioned the president's resistance to making his birth certificate and other accompanying details public.

The president has released a "certificate of live birth," a shorter document that carries the same legal weight as a birth certificate in Hawaii. But Obama has not released his so-called “longformâ€

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