Posted on 01/14/2015 5:02:24 AM PST by C19fan
The 2012 Republican nominee for president holds a leads a broad field of GOP potential contenders in the Townhall/Gravis poll conducted Jan. 5-7 among 404 registered Republican voters queried. Note: the polls were conducted using IVR technology and weighted by historical voting demographics.
Former Massachusetts governor W. Mitt Romney has never left the hearts and minds of Republican voters and he will hold the dominant position in the race for the 2016 presidential nomination until the other candidates spin up their own campaigns, said Doug Kaplan, the managing partner of Gravis Marketing, a Florida-based pollster and call center that executed the poll. The poll carries an error rate of 3 percent.
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I believe that last time he ran, he did not support the ethanol scam. They have long memories for that.
Good grief!
Romney, Bush, Walker. GOPe one, two, three.
Is the pollster out to lunch, or have Iowa farmers replaced growing corn with growing marijuana?
I hate the nomination process and these polls. By the time we get to vote in Texas, at least half of the candidates have dropped off.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
perfect... Romney and Bush split up the mushy middle / GOPe vote, while Cruz cruses to the nomination :)
Here we go again. The GOP gives us who they want and we have to shut up and take it.
Well, I will not vote for Romney or Bush.
The huckster is a joke.
The nomination is Cruz’s for the taking now that Bush and Romney are splitting the moderate vote.
I like that this must steam the Bushes of Entitlement.
Edging out John McCain for that coveted position.
I’m surprised Romney is still polling
Apparently a lot of Beyonce and J Z fans in Iowa.
Ditto.
There should be ONE national primary, culminated by the respective party conventions.
This is still just name recognition at this point. Even Walker, who is right next door. The big news is that the Huckster isn’t in the top three. I guess — and hopefully — Christian conservatives are moving on from this snake oil salesman.
I Want Christie!
ie, I Want Romeny 12% Bush 12% Christie 12%.
I allowed myself to be persuaded to give Romney my support and vote in 2012, and even went to the event in Norfolk at which he announced Paul Ryan as his running mate.
But, with the exception of that first debate, he never drew blood from Obama. He caught a case of “stepping-into-a-trap-itis,” and refused to take the hard fight to that kenyan POS. I’ve had up to my nose with GOPers who won’t go on offense, and will not support a weak nominee again.
Texas is much earlier in 2016 on Mar. 1.
This is not a poll of who voters think is best qualified.
At this early point in the elections, this is a poll of name recognition.
Romney, who ran last time, has the highest name recognition.
Bush has a brother and a father who used to be president, finishes second.
Walker is the governor in a neighboring state, has the third highest name recognition.
Everyone else is a stranger.
On a scale of 1 to 10, the importance of this poll is no higher than a two.
At this point it’s mostly about name recognition.
404 voters polled. In one state. This poll could not be more meaningless.
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