Posted on 12/12/2011 9:51:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich still leads the Republican field in Iowa, but Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are back within striking distance, according to an American Research Group poll released on Monday.
Gingrich took 22 percent of the support from likely Iowa caucus-goers, which is a five percent drop from the previous poll. Mitt Romney and Ron Paul both came in at 17 percent, followed by Rick Perry at 13 percent, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum at seven percent, and Jon Huntsman at five percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
At this point I hope for a brokered convention where my original favorite, Sarah Palin, is asked to come to the rescue.
Looks like you effort is paying off in your limited way of thinking. What you can’t see is, the effort you are taking, will possibly insure that we are about to get Romney or Paul.
Perry is history. But what you fail to understand is, Gingrich made major gains this morning in the major polls, due to his strong debate performance this weekend.
My opinion of you has lowered considerably. You now resort to throwing eggs and feces at all candidates who threaten your candidate, instead of promoting your candidate in a positive way, like you used to do, and you are now doing what you condemned others for in the past.
I no longer listen to a thing you have to say, and you only make yourself and your candidate look very low class and underhanded.
Newt could still take Iowa BUT Perry will at least be 2nd providing any shakeups.
As a supporter of Gingrich, I nevertheless welcome the attacks on him now. Let us see if he has the mettle to counter them and overcome them. If not, let us know that now. If he has the right stuff, he will prevail against Obama.
Incidentally, I expect his numbers to improve somewhat from this particular poll because his performance in the debate and especially the postmortem was virtually unanimous that Gingrich won and I expect that to have a positive impact on his numbers.
Huckabee’s gathering is Wednesday and then the Fox debate on Thursday.
Perry’s bus tour will give many undecided and wavering voters a chance to meet the governor.
Gingrich holds double-digit edge in new Iowa poll
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Response: Which poll do we believe and why?
Wonder how Newt’s Huntsman hire will go over.....
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I used to get upset by the raw-raw Perry threads that she puts up but then I thought, really what harm is she doing? If this makes the woman happy in her golden years, why knock it. She knows Perry won’t win. You know that Perry won’t win. I know that Perry won’t win. She is just living a dream and I see nothing wrong with it. Once this is over, she will keep the poster of him over her bed and that is it. No harm at all.
Thank you for the link.
“These results suggest a very fluid race,” Boehmke says. “No one candidate has put together a strong coalition of very satisfied voters. Until they do, support will likely continue to shift between candidates all the way through caucus night.”
I follow your writing, I don’t always agree but you do write so very well. I find it interesting that you are supporting Newt. It is not what I would have expected. I do know that you have explained your reasoning at length elsewhere and I don’t need to hear it again. I just expected a more conservative pick from you.
I’m vacillating between Perry (who I think is actually qualified) and Ron Paul (to send the kleptocrats a message). Paul is actually polling significantly better than Perry here in FL and it looks like a Paul vote is a better “message” to the elites than one for Perry.
In the general, I’ll vote for whoever isn’t Obama.
Sorry...progressive thinkER...
MITT
A very notable section in the poll data you linked to:
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Satisfaction with the candidates
Of likely caucus-goers, 11.4 percent either supported “someone else,” said they “don't know” who they supported, or refused to respond.
Among likely caucus-goers, 35.0 percent were “very satisfied” with their choices for the Republican nominee, 52.9 percent were “somewhat satisfied,” and 12.0 percent were “not satisfied.” Of Romney's supporters, 33.5 percent were “very satisfied” with the choices compared to 42.0 percent of Gingrich's supporters.
“These results suggest a very fluid race,” Boehmke says. “No one candidate has put together a strong coalition of very satisfied voters. Until they do, support will likely continue to shift between candidates all the way through caucus night.”
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How about that?
Like pictures backed up behind one another inside a frame and as one candidate goes out of favor, pfttt!! out it’s pulled and there’s the next “one” and all is forgiven or forgotten. Amazing.
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