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POLL: As 2012 GOP Respond, Who Benefits Most From Huckabee’s Decision Not To Run?
US Election News ^ | May 15, 2011 | Jillian Curtin

Posted on 05/14/2011 10:44:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wasn’t a Huckabee supporter... but, I don’t get everyone who is saying that his likely voters don’t count or matter. He had 15-19% in polls. I’d assume that would mean hundreds of thousands [millions?] of votes now up for grabs. ZER0 might end up with some of them, sure. The rest will be (R) or (I). I’m hoping not a RINO or progressive-R. Those votes are going somewhere and they will matter.


41 posted on 05/15/2011 3:43:06 AM PDT by NamVet71MP
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To: TwoSwords
fox is worse than msnbc... why you ask? Well I will tell you... msnbc knows it is a communist outlet... their people are communists... fox sells itself as fair and balanced while in truth... it allows lie after lie after lie to be promoted while muffling the truth wherever it raises its head. At one time they were THE American News Outlet that presented both sides. Now they are just part of the darkside. A HUGE majority of their employees are liberal... that same majority voted for obama. **** fox.

LLS

42 posted on 05/15/2011 4:13:10 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh man reading these statments from these politicians can I simply say I have not seen this much pandering in a long time. this are the same people that yresterday was calling Huckabee a progressive now he “is a leader of the gop” Good god. Give me a truthful comment MR Newt. or Mr. huntsman. I am so tired of these idiots trying to pander to everyone under the sun.


43 posted on 05/15/2011 4:21:11 AM PDT by unseen1
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To: octex
"The Huck has never been anything but a snake oil salesman."

And the Evangelicals seem to like that quality in their leaders and Pastors.

44 posted on 05/15/2011 4:35:41 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: octex

Thank you for posting that.Polymom has a problem with Palin and it shows up in her posts from time to time.


45 posted on 05/15/2011 6:07:02 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Right on !


46 posted on 05/15/2011 6:09:30 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Red_Devil 232
And the Evangelicals seem to like that quality in their leaders and Pastors.

Ouch. However; that certainly does seem to be the case in many instances...power corrupts.

47 posted on 05/15/2011 6:19:02 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Politicalmom

You obviously missed the news that those facebook pages were fakes. Anyone who is even remotely known has at least a dozen fake facebook pages. It’s really a problem for some NCAA athletes.


48 posted on 05/15/2011 8:20:02 AM PDT by SallyH
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To: Red_Devil 232

Weird thing to say since the Evangelicals are the best, most conservative voters in America, and widely recognized as the most passionate, dedicated Christians on the whole.

If everyone voted Like Evangelicals then America would be a totally conservative nation like it used to be.


49 posted on 05/15/2011 8:33:32 AM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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50 posted on 05/15/2011 8:54:01 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232
I don't know who those people are, or which churches that they belonged to, or whether they believe in God or not, or who they vote for.

As an anti-Christian, your group is overwhelmingly left wing democrat voters, you have some serious house cleaning to do.

You don't like the way that Evangelicals vote??? You prefer the secular voter???

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51 posted on 05/15/2011 9:27:58 AM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: ansel12
You are making assertions about me and accusing me of being anit-Christian. I am not a group or with a group. I am me! I attend a local Methodist church that has been around since my Father was a child.

It is a small church and we all know each other and the Pastor knows us as a individual people and families, not a numbered bank accounts.

You say you don't recognize even one of the Evangelical Preachers listed? Each has been in the news and involved in some kind of major scandal involving money or sex. Could it be because you have a closed mind?

Don't pull your anti-Christian Krap on me!

52 posted on 05/15/2011 9:48:51 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

I recognized a handful of the names but I don’t know their bios, they have nothing to do with me, just as your Methodist minister is unknown to me.

The Evangelicals are the best voters in America, and as a group, including the Methodist Evangelicals, the are the most passionate Christians dedicated to preserving a Christian, conservative, traditional America.

Your pastor seems to be teaching you to attack the up to 47% of Christian Americans that call themselves Evangelical, which of course the media and the left does constantly, your tone does not strike me as the most Christian, (or even conservative) tone that I have heard.

You really don’t like how Evangelicals vote???


53 posted on 05/15/2011 10:01:26 AM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: ansel12

My pastor teaches me about Christ not politics!


54 posted on 05/15/2011 10:12:02 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Waryone; All

“Huckabee’s people do not like Romney. Cain, and Palin will gain the most.”

Maybe Backman as well. However don’t be surprized if, in the long run, Newt benefits as well. Sounds strange, but if he can talk the talk and convince Social Conservatives he has trully reformed this time...one never knows. I remember that James Dobson was somewhat friendly towards Newt in 2008.

Also, even though his personal life history is terrible, he does have gravitas. That is something the other candidates are lacking.

I wonder if his “negatives” in polling are as high as Palin’s?


55 posted on 05/15/2011 10:19:11 AM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: Red_Devil 232
My pastor teaches me about Christ not politics!

Someone is making you angry and bigoted against Christian America, you have the same view of Evangelical Christians as the left wing and the media who hate them for their conservative values and the willingness to actually fight for America's Christian heritage and culture.

56 posted on 05/15/2011 10:24:08 AM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: All; OrangeHoof
Please note, we have removed Sarah Palin as a choice in the poll due to overwhelming response from a link posted on the Conservatives4Palin website.

C4P caught ballot stuffing. Naughty, naughty!

57 posted on 05/15/2011 1:11:39 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Stay focused: Debt, Deficits, Immigration.)
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To: ansel12
You really don’t like how Evangelicals vote???

Actually, Obama made gains with evangelicals over Kerry but he didn't do as well as Clinton had when he got 1/3 of the vote. In 2006, almost half voted for Democrats, ensuring the reign of Pelosi.

They're among the most fickle groups and don't seem to vote on their vaunted "values" at all.

58 posted on 05/15/2011 1:23:15 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Stay focused: Debt, Deficits, Immigration.)
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To: newzjunkey

They are the least fickle of groups and the most conservative voters in America.

The white Evangelical vote was about 83% Republican in 2004 and about 82% Republican in 2008.

In 2006 from race42012.com
Since the election, there’s been a dirty little rumor floating about that Republicans lost because the religious portion of “the base” either stayed home or voted Democrat. Now, determining just exactly who defected is key to altering our formula and winning in ’08, so if this is in fact what happened, it should be duly noted. This rumor is likely the result of the pre-election Cassandra-style warnings of liberals, who told us that Foley, Haggard, and the rest would break the GOP lock on the evangelical vote.

Well, guess what. It’s just not true. Evangelicals did vote GOP in 2006. By a margin of 70 percent to 28 percent. That’s not a significant change from 2004. In other words, evangelicals now vote Republican when nobody else does.? And as I noted previously, the partisan breakdown of voters — 38 percent Democrat and 36 percent Republican — was also nearly identical to the 37/37 split we enjoyed in 2004.”


59 posted on 05/15/2011 1:44:24 PM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: newzjunkey

You really want to tell me that you don’t wish that all Americans voted like Evangelicals? Because if you don’t, then you are not a conservative and do not want our side to win the elections.


60 posted on 05/15/2011 1:47:29 PM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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