POLL: VOTERS DISSATISFIED WITH CURRENT GOP PRESIDENTIAL FIELD.

It’s hard to pay attention to a race that is eight months away from the first primary when so many voters are struggling to put food on their tables while looking for a job.

Not sure how much weight we can put into a NBC News poll, but maybe the Wall Street Journal leveled out the normal liberal polling imbalance we’ve seen in so many other polls.

Here is the early polling break down.

Romney = 30 pts
Palin = 14 pts
Cain = 12 pts
Perry = 8 pts
Paul = 7 pts
Gingrich = 6 pts
Pawlenty & Santorum = 4 pts
Bachmann = 3 pts
Huntsman = 1 pts

Check out this snippet from the NBC News/WSJ poll’s results.

But with about eight months until the first GOP nominating contests, less than half of Republican primary voters — 45 percent — say they are satisfied with their current crop of presidential candidates, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

That’s substantially lower than the 73 percent of Republicans who were satisfied in the summer of 2007 (when the GOP candidates included John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee), as well as the 68 percent who were satisfied in early 1996 (when Bob Dole won the GOP nomination).

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In addition, [Obama] leads Romney — the early GOP front-runner — by six points in a hypothetical general-election match up, 49 percent to 43 percent. And he’s ahead of Pawlenty by 13 points, 50 percent to 37 percent.

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In a 10-candidate trial heat, Romney gets support from 30 percent of GOP primary voters. He’s followed by Palin at 14 percent, ex-pizza chain head Herman Cain at 12 percent, Perry at 8 percent, Paul at 7 percent and Gingrich at 6 percent. Next come Pawlenty and Santorum at 4 percent, Bachmann at 3 percent and Huntsman at 1 percent.

In a smaller trial heat consisting of just six Republican candidates, Romney’s lead jumps to 43 percent, with Paul and Bachmann at 11 percent, Santorum at 9 percent, Gingrich at 8 percent and Pawlenty at 7 percent.

HotAir has a good breakdown of this poll, CLICK HERE.