Posted on 12/30/2011 11:45:35 AM PST by Signalman
A new Rasmussen poll shows former Gov. Mitt Romney with a six-point lead over President Obama, while another indicates Iowa caucus-goers really are giving former Sen. Rick Santorum another look.
According to the first poll, the former Massachusetts governor leads Obama 45 percent to 39 percent, with 10 percent preferring another candidate and 6 percent undecided.
This is Romney’s best ever showing yet in a head-to-head matchup against Obama, and just one week ago Rasmussen said he was trailing the president by three points.
Romney’s perceived electability has been a key selling point for his campaign this year. A CNN/ORC poll released on Wednesday showed 41 percent of Iowa caucus-goers believe he would have the best chance of beating President Obama next fall.
In Iowa, Rasmussen has Romney narrowly leading the Republican field with 23 percent support, followed by Texas Rep. Ron Paul with 22 percent. As was the case in the CNN poll released on Wednesday, Santorum appears to have rocketed to third place with 16 percent support.
It’s not all good news for Santorum, however. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza notes that only 4 percent of Iowa caucus-goers believe he’s the Republican candidate with the best chance of beating Obama. And in a year when recapturing the White House is the foremost priority for the GOP, that skepticism may prove to be a major stumbling block to Santorum’s hopes of winning Iowa.
The margin of error for both Rasmussen polls in +/- 4.5 percent.
The Iowa debacle continues. I think the results on voting day will be somewhat different than what the polls are showing.
Of course Romney is shown as beating 0bama! He, unlike the others in the race, hasn’t had the constant drumbeat of negative press.
But, IF (please God, let it be NEVER!) he gets the nomination, he’s going to get hammered so badly, he’ll want to drop out of the race!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2011/InsiderAdv_Iowa_1229.pdf
The Media is ignoring the real surge of Undecideds to Gingrich...latest poll non network news....
Mittens 17
Gingrich 16.7
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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
We will have control of congress after 2012. Given that, it is better that we have an angry and alert populace insisting on political war with an open enemy in the white house, than a slumbering electorate being betrayed by the Benedict Arnold of 2012.
No Romney, PERIOD ! We told them, We told them, We told them ! Personally I'm writing in George Washington if Romney is the candidate.
You are likely right. I’ll just be glad when its over. Its a distraction.
Something tells me that Romney is putting money into the Santorum campaign to keep the conservative vote divided.
Santorum’s hard work is paying off and his stong conservatism is becoming more well known.
“..I was really concerned about Obama and Obamacare, and cap and trade and card check and all those things that were floating back at those times.
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if government just stays out of the way and creates an atmosphere for opportunity, protects us from outside fources and creates a level playing field for all of us to be able to achieve in our lives.
RUSH: Now, Rick, in that answer — which I liked — I heard a lot of references to what some would call the “social issues.” I remember you’ve said when you announced your candidacy — and you’ve gotten close to it here, too — you said you wanted to make sure that there is a conservative in the race who has a track record of leading on moral, cultural issues. Now, you know as well as I do that within the what I call the inside the Beltway elitist or ruling part of the Republican Party, they don’t want any part of the “social issues,” Rick. They don’t want to go there. They don’t want candidates who are gonna make a big deal out of the social issues ‘cause they’re afraid of abortion rearing its head and becoming an issue. Does that present you a problem? ‘Cause this is one of the areas where the Republican Party is in a war with itself. You know, what I call the — for lack of a better term — intelligentsia of our party just don’t want to go there. They want to keep it supposedly strictly on the fiscal side, but you’re fearless going after the moral and social issues as you’ve just done here.
SANTORUM: Yeah. Look, I believe as you heard, “We’re endowed by our Creator with certain rights: Life, liberty...” I mean, America is a moral enterprise, Rush. The idea that Republicans can win elections if he go up there and just say, “All we care about is money...” People don’t care... Of course we care about our jobs, we care about money, but we care about our families. We care about our communities. We care about, you know, the dignity of life;
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and you know that I was a leader on welfare reform. I was the guy that led the charge in the US Senate and actually wrote the bill when I was in the House. I was the guy that actually helped end the federal entitlement. I embraced the Ryan plan and said it’s a good first step and frankly I would go even farther than that,
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I won my first four races. I’m four out of five — not bad — and three of the first four races I ran twice for the House, once against this incumbent Democrat. The second time I got redistricted into a 71% Democratic district against another incumbent Democrat. I won that seat. The third time I ran for the Senate in Pennsylvania with 600,000 more registered Democrats Republicans, against another Democratic incumbents, I won that — and then in 2000 when George Bush lost the state by four points I won it by five. In 2006 it was a horrible election year,
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Mitt Romney in his announcement earlier this week in New Hampshire said, yes, he believes there is global warming, and, yes, he thinks human beings are contributing to it. Do you?
SANTORUM: I believe the earth gets warmer, and I also believe the earth gets cooler, and I think history points out that it does that and that the idea that man through the production of CO2 which is a trace gas in the atmosphere and the manmade part of that trace gas is itself a trace gas is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, just patently absurd when you consider all of the other factors, El Nino, La Nina, sunspots, you know, moisture in the air. There’s a variety of factors that contribute to the earth warming and cooling, and to me this is an opportunity for the left to create — it’s a beautifully concocted scheme because they know that the earth is gonna cool and warm. snip
RUSH: I see that you’ve signed the anti-tax pledge in New Hampshire. What are the specifics?
SANTORUM: I’m signing that today. That’s right. It basically says that I believe in pro-growth policies, and the time I was in the United States Senate and the Congress I never voted for a tax increase, believed and voted for every tax cut that was made available to do, ‘cause I believe that we need to have a situation our country where government is an incentivizer for business where by creating low rates and reforming our regulatory structure to make it more friendly to business and opportunity oriented snip
excerpt http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/06/08/the_rick_santorum_interview
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