Breaking: First New Hampshire GOP Primary Poll Results Are In (Mitt in first, Sarah in 2nd)

Fox News ^ | January 6, 2011

[2ndDivisionVet]

Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney holds a commanding lead in New Hampshire in the early stages of the race for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, according to a new survey commissioned by NH Journal and conducted by Magellan Strategies. The survey is the first statewide survey of Granite State Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in 2011.

Romney leads former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by 23 points, with Romney earning 39% and Palin earning 16%. Mike Huckabee (10%)...

[2ndDivisionVet]

I will raise $2 million dollars for Governor Sarah Palin. Anyone here willing to do the same for Myth Romney, Gomer Huckleberry or any of the others? BTW, Mittens has all but dropped out of South Carolina already, which was detailed in a thread I posted earlier:

Quinns Rule Out Romney (Mitt conceding South Carolina already?!) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2652176/posts

[bareford101]

romney is a loser. I don’t care what the poll says....

he is the best way for the obamanation to be re-crowned

[TXConservative25]

Meaningless, Iowa is what matters. Let’s forget Romney was leading New Hampshire in 2008 too.

[Celtic Cross]

Please understand, I don't support Romney. But unfortunately, the vast majority of people, and the vast majority of republicans, are not freepers.

They've been lead to believe whatever lie the media will make up about Palin. To them, Romney apparently seems like the better choice.

We have about a year and a half to change that perception.

[deport]

I see this poll being more of a local recognition factor than what will actually happen in the NH primary in 2012. I’m not sure who is willing to spend the time and put their shoe leather to work on the NH streets which is what the NH voters look for. I don’t see Romney doing this type campaigning.

[who knows what evil?]

Romney with 23-point lead over Sarah Palin...you’re right, A-10...she should skip the NH primary, and launch with SC...if she runs; of course.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The repeal of ZeroCare was the driving force in the November election, but those same voters are going to vote for the unrepentant author of RomneyCare?

Are you serious?

[gitmogrunt]

Media darlings won’t get my vote.

[TexasFreeper2009]

any other election cycle and Romney could probably win... but THIS election cycle he can't because he is weak on the ONE issue that can sink obama (healthcare)

Romneycare will be his undoing, and for that he must be stopped for us to have a chance of beating Obama and saving the country.

[icwhatudo]

I wonder how “none of the above” would have done if it was an option.

[Hoodat]

Hey, I've got a novel idea. Why not let the voters of a conservative state (like Oklahoma, Idaho, or Mississippi) pick our nominee instead. New Hampshire gave us John McCain in 2000 and in 2008.

[who knows what evil?]

Meaningless, Iowa is what matters.

NH is losing any relevance it once had; especially on the GOP side. A conservative will not win there...according to figures from the 2010 Census; a majority of the current residents of New Hampshire are from 'somewhere else' (Massachusetts, New York, and so forth). Wonder where all the natives went? Is there another state where the natives are in the minority?

[GeronL]

You have got to be kidding.... ugh

[Theodore R.]

Though they have a reputation for “unpredictability,” those NH primary people are really very predicatable folks. I loathe their influence on the nation. But’s that the fault of the lazy American voters in other states for allowing them to have this undue influence.

[sargon]

Romney's commanding lead in NH can be dismissed as being due to the proximity between New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

As a matter of fact, New Hampshire is getting a lot of "pollution" from Massachusetts lately. In other words, Massachusetts people are moving there.

I believe poll results will be much closer in states which are not right in Romney's backyard.

"Live free or vote for Romney" should be the state's new slogan, I guess...

[who knows what evil?]

New Hampshire gave us John McCain in 2000 and in 2008.

NH Republicans voted for Romney in 2008...NH 'independents' (democrats in disguise) voted for McCain in the GOP primary, because they felt either Obama or Hillary would kick his ass in the general, and they were right.

They will do the same in 2012.

[Calvin Locke]

Perhaps the article could have pointed out that 1.) Romney was the
governor of a state that borders NH, and 2.) Romney had a
vacation home in NH.

Ergo, the news about him is more local, and positive, as opposed to
Palin, who's constantly slimed by the LSM.

With RomneyCare, Romney fastened himself to the pooch with an
inclined plane wrapped helically around a central axis.

And Palin has that abandonment of office thingy.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How many of these people polled are Massholes and other liberals?

[Hoodat]

Romney's commanding lead in NH can be dismissed as being due to the proximity between New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

And Romney didn't even win it in 2008.

[GeronL]

probably a bunch I bet, all moving away from MassAtaxes