bleeech...
Posted on 01/07/2011 2:01:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Congratulations, Mitt Romney! You have won the Hillary Clinton seat for the 2012 primaries. You're the long-distance frontrunner who is now expected to win New Hampshire. The Magellan poll of "likely 1,451 Republican primary voters," about 2/3 GOP registered and 1/3 independent:
Mitt Romney - 39 percent
Sarah Palin - 16 percent
Mike Huckabee - 10 percent
Newt Gingrich - 8 percent
Ron Paul - 7 percent
Tim Pawlenty - 4 percent
another candidate - 4 percent
Rick Santorum - 3 percent
Haley Barbour - 1 percent
Romney has to be considered the frontrunner, even though he's polling only 7 points higher than his vote from the 2008 primary. (Huckabee and Paul poll one point lower than their 2008 results.) He has the highest favorable ratings, 73 percent to 16 percent unfavorable.....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
bleeech...
Interesting how Santorum and Barbour are on the bottom and the RINOs all float to the top. Palin the exception.
(All the way to the basement). Hilarious.
This was an outcome based poll. It just does not pass the common sense test that the man who gave Mass. Romneycare is running ahead of any conservative or RINO hopeful.
No where to go? Hell, why doesn’t he just go away.
It's a poll of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, not a poll of Free Republic posters.
It always sort of amazes me that people don't realize how unrepresentative FR is of of the general population, Republicans, or Conservatives.
A lie.
Please elaborate.
Sure he has somewhere to go... like packing his RINO rear back to MA and stay there for a good dose of Romney DeathPanelPlus. I heard they’re all Rats on the panel so his future is looking kind of iffy.
Honestly. I have a hard time swallowing that anyone would vote for that. Why not just have 4 more years of Emperor Zerg instead?
Again, he’s right next door, he can basically whistlestop the state every weekend he’s in Massachusetts. He’s not leading this thing going away? He’s not breaking 50 percent? He’s not even breaking 40? This is me doing my best Chris-Farley-as-Matt-Foley: “La-dee-frickin’-da!”
Opps, scratch Michigan.
Magellan predicted Whitman to win.
I am for “another candidate”.
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B*llsh!t poll... will not give us much in the way of internals but what they do say proves this is a manufactured poll... not a poll of republicans but of any home that holds a registered independent or republican... no random calling... hand picked phone numbers... no mention how many of each (republican or independent) or whether they talked to the registered voter or a dope smoking teenager answering the phone.
I went and searched for info on Magellan polling... the company that did this poll... surprise... it is owned and operated and funded by the RNC. The dims have attacked them as a republican party PR firm. These days... that means it is as big of an enemy propaganda machine as the media is for the dims. Here is a bit from daily kos:
“”Magellan Polls” a GOP Front for Bob Ehrlich Share14 1by justdafacts Wed Jul 07, 2010 at 10:27:56 PM PST
Magellan Strategies, the firm behind the “poll” claiming Bob Ehrlich leads Gov. O’Malley, is not a legitimate pollster. In fact, they’re not pollsters at all.
Instead, they’re a Republican consulting firm on the payroll of the Republican National Committee and Americans for Prosperity that publishes polls tailor made to boost Republican candidates. Their tagline is,”Magellan Strategies Helping Republicans Win Elections.””
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Nothing but a machine polling propaganda outlet, designed to push rinoid party hacks, inside the beltway, blue blood, limo riding, elitist, socialist repubic candidates! I also found that Flaherty has worked for romney... gee that is a surprise... his bio states that he is owned and operated by the RNC... how many of you believe anything out of the RNC? He is an RNC employee and a liberal republican party hack elite!
This from the poll:
"The survey was conducted on Tuesday, January 4th from 6:00 to 8:00pm using automated telephone calls to a sample of 1,451 voters randomly drawn from a New Hampshire voter file among households containing at least one registered Republican or independent voter. Independent voters were screened for their intention to vote in the 2012 Republican Presidential primary. The response data was weighted to reflect past Republican primary voting demographics from the 2008 Republican Presidential primary election. Three attempts were made to interview each household in the sample. This survey has a margin of error of 2.57% at the 95 percent confidence interval.”
LLS
Really! So you think New Hampshire voters reflect the politics of the majority of republicans?
Then please explain the results of the last mid-term election to me.
Oh, I sincerely believe the poll reflects the view of most NH Pubbie voters. And that is precisley why the poll was outcome based. The poll’s result was preordained. It is in no way a credible indicator of national Republican politics.
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