Posted on 02/24/2012 9:53:29 AM PST by Steelfish
February 21, 2012
Santorum Leads In Washington
Wedged between the Michigan/Arizona primaries and Super Tuesday the Washington state GOP caucus hasn't received a lot of attention. At least for now it looks like it could give Rick Santorum some momentum headed into the critical March 6th contests. He leads there with 38% to 27% for Mitt Romney, 15% for Ron Paul, and 12% for Newt Gingrich.
Santorum is by far the most popular of the Republican candidates with 69% viewing him favorably to only 18% with a negative opinion. Romney is the only other one who even has a positive favorability rating. He's at 47/42. The disparity between Santorum and Romney's numbers in Washington resembles what we found for the contests two weeks ago in Missouri and Minnesota, both of which Santorum ended up winning by a healthy margin.
Next week looks like it could be disastrous for Gingrich. He's in 4th place in both Washington and Michigan, and in 3rd place in Arizona. He's not remotely close to finishing in the top 2 in any of those states. It's not just that Republican voters aren't planning to vote for Gingrich, they don't even like him any more. In Washington his favorability is upside down at 39/46 and the same is true in Michigan (39/50) and Arizona (43/48) as well.
Gingrich's continued presence in the state is a boost to Romney. If he pulled out before Washington 59% of his supporters say they'd move to Santorum, compared to only 13% who would go to Romney. That would make the overall standings Santorum 49, Romney 28, Paul 16- as long as Gingrich stays in and keeps splitting the conservative vote it's keeping Romney competitive.
(Excerpt) Read more at publicpolicypolling.com ...
Precisely!
Newt Gingrich is a historian. He knows AMERICA.
Obama doesn’t and obama hates our history. He’s rooted in hate and it shows.
Newt Gingrich loves our country.
He has to be our nominee if we’re going to save and restore our Republic.
GO SARAH!
GO NEWT!
You know she will be a very important member of the Gingrich presidency!
So how do you think Gingrich’s cavernous negatives and unfavorability ratings plus his Grand Canyon size deficit with female voters will play out?
sodpoodle; (sod) is a screen name. You’re out of your mind and filled with screaming personal attacks of your own!
LOL @ you.
Mothers chauffeur their kids around and about where high $6 dollar gas prices don't sit well with them. No, that pee pees them off. Newt is outstanding on national security. Mothers are security conscious as a group. Two winning issue for Newt with women.
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
Have often wondered if I should change that screen name. SOD is an olde English slang for sodomite - which could also be considered a nasty (prairie) dog.
FWIW I don’t recall you ever being spiteful and nasty - not your nature..............except, perhaps behind the wheel;)
ROTFLOLOL.
I knew you’d get out of this one!
I can’t count the number of times you sign *sod* for short.
I use it to you affectionately and you know that. ((((sod))))
LOLOLOL.
ROTFLOLOL.
I knew you’d get a laugh out of this one!
I can’t count the number of times you sign *sod* for short.
I use it to you affectionately and you know that. ((((sod))))
LOLOLOL.
Now that is funny..LOL...still laughing.
:)
Do you know how Santorum matches with vote equivalents? In Caucus states, fewer people vote, so they represent a larger percentage of the general election population than in primary states.
[So how do you think Gingrich’s cavernous negatives and unfavorability ratings plus his Grand Canyon size deficit with female voters will play out?]
About the same as Santorum’s cavernous sanctimony and debate skills plus his Grand Canyon size deficit with male voters will play out.
Just a guess.
OK-will accept explanation. I didn’t think you were too bad a fella but just being a bit over the top.
Question. I just read that Santorum’s wife had a partial birth abortion, if this is true, is this the same unborn baby they took home with family for the night to “cuddle?”
No, I think it’s different baby.
I think the one they took home lived an hour or so.
Thnx onyx. That is a relief.
I fully understand the caucus versus primary thing, but that supports my case not yours. Santorum can only motivate the tiny hard core home school Huckabee vote, thus he does well in the teeny tiny universe of caucuses.
However, the Presidency is not won by caucus.
Yeah, what's up with the Steelfish? It's from the 21st, you claimed it's from today.
You changed the date when you posted to suit your agenda, giving a FALSE impression of this poll's timeliness.
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