Gallup: Romney Edges Out Palin, Huckabee in Early GOP Poll (Chart)

hotairpundit ^ | 7/16/09 | talkradio03

[Talkradio03]

Early poll release this morning from Gallup on who is leading, but it's early...

[muawiyah]

Romney peaks early again. The Mitbots shouldn’t take much hope in that.

[wilco200]

ugh! Leaving Palin out for a moment. I hope an actual conservative decides to run for President after this 4 year debacle.

[Valpal1]

They didn’t poll me, I will never vote for Romney.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

A vote for Romney in the primary is a vote for Obama in the general.

[MrEdd]

Already posted

[Puppage]

I LOVE Sara, but I don’t think she stands a snowballs chance in hell.

[newfreep]

Appears to be a disconnect between the 2 graphs - Sarah's a runaway leader in overall favorability.

[DogBarkTree]

At this point Ive decided that I wont be voting for anyone just to vote against someone. No more lesser of 2 evils BS for me. If Sarah or Bobby get the nomination count me in. Anyone else will keep me home in November.

[MrEdd]

from the article:

Currently, 72% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents have a favorable opinion of Palin, compared with 56% for Romney and 59% for Huckabee.

looks like Romney doesn't edge out anyone if you don't include democrats. Big surprise.

[mnehring]

Romney also led in a lot of polls in the primaries. How did that work out for him?

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_ldate=01%2F2008&as_hdate=10%2F2008&lnav=od&q=Romney+lead+poll&ned=us&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&sugg=d&btnG=Search

[Uri’el-2012]

Romney is a Republican ?

I thought he was a socialist !

Another Vichy republican I will not vote for !

[CedarDave]

My impression of Romney was formed at the Hannity’s 2007 Dallas Freedom concert. All the on-stage attendees were dressed informally, including Governor Perry. Romney showed up with a suit and tie and looked completely out of place in that setting. I said to myself here’s a person that is always campaigning and needs to be formally dressed in the event of interviews, lunches, etc. My opinion hasn’t changed.

[dinoparty]

So there are only two conservative politicians in America, in your view?

[libh8er]

The early peakers almost always fizzle out. Happened with Hilde, JulieAnn...

[Diogenesis]

ROMNEY - for when the GOP really, really, wants to lose.

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

[Captain Kirk]

Another Vichy republican I will not vote for !

Well....I remember well that folks said the same thing about McCain and Bush but in November the usual GOP scare tactics got them to line up and do so. Last time, of course, the rationalization was that they were "voting for Palin" but if that ratioanlization had not worked for them I suspect they would have latched onto another.

[dinoparty]

Maybe he believes that a politician should dress formally in public appearances. Seems to me if he were really in cynical mode, he would have dressed casually just to please the audience, instead of dressing the way he believed appropriate.

[mnehring]

There is a big difference between a primary and a general election. In the primary, you fight your damnedest for the politician that represents your principles to make it to the general. When you get to the general election, your choices are far more limited and more often than not, you are voting against the other guy.

[Dead Corpse]

Not a chance in hell. No Willard.