Posted on 05/19/2011 1:35:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With Mike Huckabee's exit from the race, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin are now on top of the Republican field, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday.
Twenty percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters say they'd support the former Massachusetts governor, while 18 percent say they'd support the former Alaska governor.
Newt Gingrich comes in third place with 11 percent.
In the April 15-20 poll, Huckabee had 16 percent (tied with Donald Trump). Romney had 13, Palin had 10.
While Romney and Palin now share the top spot, Gallup's positive intensity tracking shows Republicans feeling less enthusiastic about their two top choices than they did about Huckabee as a potential GOP nominee.
Gallup's Frank Newport chalks the latest rankings up to name ID.
“Palin, Gingrich, and Romney are the three best-known candidates, and they top the list of Republicans' preferences,” he wrote. "Ron Paul and Bachmann are the only other potential candidates with name recognition above 50%. They are also next in line in terms of Republican nomination support.”
”Paul has 8 percent support, while Bachman came in with 5 percent."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
What Nugent should have done is ask Morgan a few questions about conservative tenets and past and present conservative thinkers. I’ll bet Morgan is a typical arrogant, foreign lefty who has little or no knowledge about what drives American conservatism. If Morgan couldn’t identify or talk about those things, Nugent should have called him an ignoramus. Which he assuredly is.
Talk about grasping at straws (as to why the NR ignored Palin when talking about beneficiaries of Huck’s decision)!
‘What Nugent should have done is ask Morgan a few questions about conservative tenets and past and present conservative thinkers. I’ll bet Morgan is a typical arrogant, foreign lefty who has little or no knowledge about what drives American conservatism. If Morgan couldn’t identify or talk about those things, Nugent should have called him an ignoramus. Which he assuredly is.”
He did. You need to find this interview. It was classic. I was on the floor rolling. Nugent ripped that limey bastard a new one over and over.
Oh, quit acting like a troll. They didn’t cast Bachmann as a beneficiary either. The point is Palin isn’t a beneficiary YET because she isn’t running YET, and ONE of NRO’s bloggers therefore didn’t include her. That’s a pretty laughable reason to add NRO to your personal grudge list, but hey, since it’s obviously your general disposition to try to turn every little thing into a bloody fight, go ahead, ignore NRO. Select your political allies like that, and you’ll listen to no-one but the nutjobs at WorldNetDaily. Oh, wait... they liked Trump.
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