With Election Day 2012 negative 630 days away, former Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney leads President Barack Obama by nine points in a new CNN poll.
Romney trumps Obama 53 to 44 percent, according to the survey, which was conducted between July 18 – 20, 2014. CNN noted that a separate ABC News / Washington Post poll from last November found Romney with a 49 – 45 percent edge.
Romney’s imagined nine point victory would be the largest for a Republican presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter by almost 10 points in 1980, which resulted in an electoral college victory of 489-49.
The same CNN survey, however, showed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a 55 – 42 advantage over Romney.
That’s a 22-point swing between Barack Obama and an ex-Obama administration surrogate.
“Politically speaking, there is an interesting group of people who would not vote for Obama but would pick Clinton over Romney,” CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. “It turns out that nearly seven in ten of them are women, and 56 percent are Independents.”
