Posted on 01/18/2012 1:18:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
PRINCETON, NJ -- Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum currently generate the strongest positive reactions among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents nationwide, with Positive Intensity Scores of +12, and lead the other contenders by a significant margin. In fact, Republicans are about equally likely to view Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich strongly positively or strongly negatively, and are more likely to have strongly negative than strongly positive views of Rick Perry and recently withdrawn candidate Jon Huntsman.
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The results are based on Gallup Daily tracking interviews conducted Jan. 12-15, prior to Huntsman's withdrawal on Monday. This is the first update on positive intensity since Republican presidential nomination caucus and primary voting began this month in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Santorum's and Romney's scores are fairly weak for the leading candidates in positive intensity, based on the context provided by Gallup polling on this measure, which began last February. Typically, the highest Positive Intensity Scores for the Republican candidates in a given period have been +20 or greater. And Barack Obama's Positive Intensity Score among Democrats and Democratic leaners is +32 in the Jan. 12-15 polling.
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Hell no!
Santorum yes. Romney no!
Good to see that Santorum is doing so well among Republicans.
Santorum and Gingrich or vice-versa is acceptable
Both Romney and Santorum are emerging as his enemies and both must be defeated for him to have a shot.
Santorum will stay IN the race as long as Romney wants him to. He's likely been told the VP slot is his.
Nope, Santorum can beat Romney as can Gingrich, paul and perry need to drop out
C’mon, Santorum. Game on!
Oh come on.
Didn’t we hear this nonsense about Bachmann?
Apparently every conservative who isn’t NOOT is a ‘staking horse for Romney’.
Is that why he actually upset the applecart and won in Iowa?
At this point Santorum won Iowa, tied newt in NH,
and is now tied with Romney in South Carolina Poll
Im with Rick read this, and get on board with Rock Santorum!
Gallup: Romney, Santorum Tie for Lead in GOP Positive Intensity
Gallup ^ | 01/18/2012 | Jeffrey M. Jon
These polls on “favorability” or “positive intensity” are worthless because nobody ever qualifies what the hell these terms mean. Far too vague and open-ended.
If the Romney campaign can spread dis-information, so can I.
Uh, okay. You really want to go down that road? Really?
It’s how they poll head to head matchups.
This is why Newt gets destroyed head to head vs Romney, because his unfavourability among the entire Republican electorate is so high.
This is what Newt supporters aren’t getting. If the race were to come down to Romney and him, he would lose, and lose badly.
A thousand times not only no but HELL NO.
They'd make a pair. Both are government-loving statists. One has no principles and the other is a not-so-closeted theocrat.
Still, nobody has operationally defined what “favorability” nor “positive intensity” even mean.
F*or instance, favoring someone in a personal sense as a friend, can be quite a bit different than favoring someone in a presidential sense as a leader.
Still, nobody has operationally defined what “favorability” nor “positive intensity” even mean.
For instance, favoring someone in a personal sense as a friend, can be quite a bit different than favoring someone in a presidential sense as a leader.
Ok, two questions.
One, if you had the choice between Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul and Perry, to be the republican nominee for the presidency, whom would you choose?
That will get a table like this:
Romney - 35
Santorum - 20
Gingrich - 15
Paul - 10
Perry - 5
Someone else - 5
Don’t know - 10
Now if you ask the question:
Do you have a favourable or unfavourable opinion of Rick Santorum?
You’ll get something like this:
Yes 58
No 30
The higher the yes, the higher the positive intensity. The higher the no, the lower the intensity. Intensity measures differential, favourability measures the actual number.
In this example Favourability would be 58 percent and intensity would be +28.
The polls just ask the person to pick whether they like the guy. They don’t do anything to break that down and ask them why. It’s just a straight up, yes/no, do you like the guy.
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