Barbour: Romney "not a true frontrunner"

CBS News ^ | November 13, 2011 | Lucy Madison .

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Despite Mitt Romney's consistently placing at or near the top in polls of the GOP presidential field, Governor Haley Barbour, R-Miss., says he's "not a true frontrunner" - even if he is "the best known of our candidates."

Barbour, in a Sunday appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," said there is no real frontrunner amid the 2012 GOP candidates, in part because he thinks Republicans are more focused on unseating President Obama than picking a candidate who shares their views.

"This [election] reminds me of a lot of past Democratic presidential contests, like Jimmy Carter in '76, Bill Clinton in '92, where there is not really a frontrunner," Barbour said. "Mitt Romney is the best known of our candidates. Not a true frontrunner. What we see people doing more than I've ever seen in my life is, instead of saying which one agrees with me most, which one do I like the most, they're saying, which one has the best chance to beat Obama?"

Barbour said voters are "going through 'Cinderella trying on the slipper' with the other candidates in the field, but that ultimately "after we've gone through that cycle, people will seriously focus on, is it really Romney who is the most electable or is there somebody else that has come out there that I think has the best chance to beat Obama?(continued)

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CBS handpicked their people to call for their poll. CBS has phony polls! Has anyone heard how Mark Levin’s GOP poll turned out? Cain was ahead by nine points last night.

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What a cutie!