Lou Dobbs Polls in the Double Digits for 2012

11/28/2009, by Proloy Bhatta

HIGHLIGHTS

• RR: A Romney-Obama race is a dead heat.
• RR: Dobbs gets double digits as a third party candidate.
• Palin and Huckabee would trail Obama by three and four percent respectively without Dobbs.

According to Rasmussen Reports, Lou Dobbs would garner double digit support and would hurt the GOP if he were to run in 2012.

In a Romney-Obama-Dobbs race, Romney loses the race by 8% --- Dobbs would garner 14%. But in a Romney-Obama race, it is a dead heat.

The Democracy Corps poll we wrote about on Wednesday said Romney would be seven percent behind if two potential third party candidates were to run, Nader and Dobbs.

The addition of third party candidates may have suppressed Romney's support much more than we realized because as Rasmussen Reports found -- Obama's support is pegged between 42% and 46% regardless of the matchups.

Palin and Huckabee would trail Obama by three and four percent respectively without Dobbs but seven and six percent respectively with Dobbs.

Here are the results from Rasmussen Reports.