By Doug Powers • March 26, 2010 08:47 AM

Kind of good news for the GOP — A Republican, Nobody, is in a statistical dead heat with President Obama in the 2012 presidential election:

From Andrew Malcolm at the LA Times:

Here’s a closeup photo above of the Republican candidate for president who’s currently tied with President Obama for the 2012 White House race. No one. Or anyone. A new CNN / Opinion Research Poll out this afternoon of 953 registered voters nationally finds Obama tied at 47% with any Republican candidate. Gee, if only Wendell Willkie was still around. The same poll also finds a clear majority of Americans now believe that Obama is a one-term president.

The CNN poll mirrors a Gallup poll from early February, which means the passage of the really super expensive free health care bill hasn’t done enough to push the president over the top against Nobody.

Keep up the good work, Nobody! I’m pulling for you, which is easy, because you’re… Nobody. Given the declining support for the Democrats, Nobody could be enough somebody to beat the Dems in 2010 and 2012.

President Obama, above right, debated the Republican candidate Nobody, above left, at Georgetown University Monday evening. According to a Pew poll, 61% of viewers thought Nobody won the debate. A recent CNN poll found that nearly half the country would rather have Nobody as president instead of Obama

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