Posted on 09/22/2011 7:08:30 AM PDT by Cardhu
Well, here are a couple of -- no, make that several -- new wrinkles in the Republican presidential contest in New Hampshire:
With the next televised debate tonight in Florida on Fox News, a new poll of likely New Hampshire Republican voters shows Mitt Romney surging to a commanding 27-point lead over his closest GOP rival, who is not Rick Perry.
The Texas governor, whose mid-August entry saw him rush to the top of numerous national Republican polls, was pushed way down in the new Suffolk University Poll to fourth place deep into the single digits, barely ahead of the not-even-running Sarah Palin.
But here's a surprising, potentially significant development for the New Hampshire contest. Jon Huntsman, who's been swimming around the bottom of the field like a foraging flounder barely registering in most polls, has himself surged.
He's moved all the way up to 10% and third place -- ahead of Perry.
According to the new Suffolk University/7News poll of 400, the field there now stacks up this way:
Romney at 41%, up five points since June; Ron Paul at 14% and Huntsman at 10%, both up six points since June; Perry 8%; Palin 6%; Michele Bachmann 5%; Newt Gingrich at 4%; and Rick Santorum and Buddy Roemer both at 1%.
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Huntsman? It sounds like Democrats are crossing over to sabotage the results.
yep
NH cross overs and a tiny sample of only 400. Could there possibly be a more meaningless poll?
Something about the results there moves me to suggest they carefully review their sampling methodology SOON.
oh no, this is exactly the result they wanted. They love their flawed methodology.
LLS
Huntsman actually has a decent following on NH college campi...time to raise the voting age to 30.
Since Pat Buchanan proved that winning the NH Primary is meaningless and now that thousands of leftists from MA have invaded and destroyed conservatism in NH this means nothing.
THIS is a SURPRISE???
They helped give us McCain, didn’t they?
Romney is a northeastern Lib so why wouldn’t a statefull of northeastern libs and Democrat crossovers vote for him?
No surprise. But it will help Romney as well nationally as Bachmann’s win in Iowa helped her.
Open primary?
Not sure whats going on here.
Perry, as a Texan, was always a tougher sell in New England, but as to why Huntsman is doing so well, that puzzles me a lot more.
When it comes to politics, I would place most of New England in the same category as Europe - it is as if the time zones affect opinion and they are just too darn far out in the Atlantic. And didn't they give us John McCain last time round?
NH has picked a slew of Republican losers if memory serves.
New Hampshire is so small it shouldn’t qualify as a state.
here we go again
exept this time the democrats may actually vote for these two RINOs instead of the messiah
I respectfully disagree about Preibus. He has tea party Scott Walker roots from Wisconsin. Now, previous RNC chairs? Oh yeah, I’d believe that. Would some in the RNC want to do this still? Yep.
I just don’t think this sounds like Preibus.
But why would they want a methodology that puts their heads in Romney’s butt and Huntsman’s hand on their wallets?
I’m in NH, and there is no way Romney is getting my vote. And Huntsman might as well be on the Democrat side.
Yes. Consider that if Obama does NOT have a challenger in the RAT primary; Democrats will be looking for something else to do on Primary day...like crossing over to vote in the GOP primary.
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