A few thousand of the most extreme right-wingers in this country met last weekend for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Most of the presidential hopefuls in the Republican Party showed up and spoke to the group, seeking their support. As usual, one of the final actions at the conference was a straw poll. Slightly more than 3,000 conference attendees voted in the poll this year, and the results are in the chart above (showing the percentage of that vote each hopeful got).
Meanwhile, the right-wing continues to try and convince the public that President Obama is extremely unpopular with the general public. The truth is that any of those GOP presidential hopefuls would love to have the president's approval numbers. The chart below shows the president is currently viewed much more favorably than any of the Republicans. It was made from a recent AP-GfK Poll -- done between January 29th and February 2nd of a random national sample of 1,045 adults, with a margin of error of 3.5 points.
