Poll: Ron Paul has best chance to defeat Obama

Poll: Ron Paul has best chance to defeat Obama

SEATTLE – A nonscientific KING5.com - NWCN.com poll finds 40 percent of people think Ron Paul has the best chance among the remaining Republican presidential candidates to defeat Pres. Barack Obama next year.

Coming in second among the 5,775 who voted? Nobody. 26 percent of respondents said nobody in the field could stop Obama from winning a second term.

Sixteen percent said Mitt Romney could win, followed by Herman Cain at 7 percent.

Three percent said Newt Gingrich, 2 percent said Rick Perry and 1 percent said Michele Bachmann or Jon Huntsman.

Statistically, Rick Santorum won zero percent, although 19 people voted in favor of him.

Four percent said any one of the candidates could win.

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