Posted on 12/14/2011 9:54:01 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich is extremely susceptible to negative ads and drops behind Mitt Romney when hit with charges he pushed for a health care mandate, took money from Fannie Mae and backed other non-conservative issues, according to a new poll provided exclusively to Washington Whispers.
Gingrich's support is "decimated" when voters are exposed to just one negative ad, said polling firm Evolving Strategies.
"The percentage of respondents picking Gingrich as their first choice in the primary falls more than 15 points, from 42 to 26 percent," they said. [See pictures of the 2012 GOP candidates.]
In the innovative ad testing of voters nationwide, Evolving Strategies found that former Republican front-runner Romney benefits most from voters turned off by the negative Gingrich ads, with his support rising 10 points, a 39 percent increase in his standing.
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Rick Perry is the candidate with the total package.
He has conservative credentials (pro-life, pro-gun, pro states rights) He's a very successful governor of a state that has prospered despite the Obama recession.
He actually has and is taking on Obama in lawsuits and publicly as an executive.
He is personable and likable.
He has a great family.
Perry is the choice Conservatives should be looking to.
Agree about Callista. But hopefully we won’t go there this election. Michelle O has her own baggage.
Regarding Newt ... likeable ... No he’s not ‘likeable’ as far as inviting him over for a beer. BUT ... this country is teetering on financial destruction. I think voters are going to be voting for a street fighter. Someone who’s willing to fight for America. Newt has that quality. That’s why Tea Partiers like him (to answer Glen Beck). Newt is attacking the media and Obama and NO ONE else on the Repbulican bench is willing to do that. (Except for Palin.)
I wish Palin & Trump would run together. This country needs a wild ride to shake things up.
“It’s funny how this ‘poll’ differs so much”
The negative ads have only been running in Iowa for a week and Newt is already on the verge of falling behind Ron Paul. Ignore reality at your peril.
Thank our lucky stars it is!!
Fingernails on the blackboard. Reckon she’ll take up the 999 Siren’s Call again Thursday night?
You were a Romney pimp last election, and IMO you still are.
US News and World Report.
All of the News that they can make up.
Newt is very likable on the stump and in debates.
He comes across as knowledgeable, wise, concerned, strategic, unvarnished, well-spoken, genuine, thoughtful and sensible - all while seeming grandfatherly in the best sense of that word.
Mitt comes across as plastic banana.
Perry comes across as W.
Bachmann comes across as right on the issues, but not as presidential timber.
Paul comes across as a Beck/Savage clone (helpful as political sirens, but not as political leaders).
IF they were advocating this woman had a chance at winning a general election, they yes I am saying they are either being completely idiotic, or they are playing their audience for ratings... After all that’s how they get paid.
Bachman had ZERO chance in the general election, look at how she acted and how she did in the GOP primary? Even among mostly conservative primary voters her political hyperbole and nonsense alienated voters... Do you really think the 40% of the swing voters would have been swayed by her? If you do, I think you are in complete denial.
Talk Radio can claim its informative all day long, at the end of the day, its ENTERTAINMENT folks, never ever forget that. Bachman was, is and always will be a 2nd or 3rd stringer and does not remotely have what it takes to be a serious candidate for the Presidency. She caters to a small vocal subset who overlook her absolute shrewness and hyperbole screaching because she is saying what they want to hear, but that subset is not remotely going to win her or anyone else a national election.
Early in the campaign the media decided on Romney as the guy they would handle with kid gloves because he offers, in their opinions, the greatest contrast with Obama and thus the most easily defeated. Newt was written off. Now way in the world he would get the nomination.
But now, with Newt on the ascendancy, they are in full panic mode. The other Republican candidates have no reason to waste their money and time in smearing Newt because the media will do it for them. Because they are terrified now that Newt might actually get nominated.
And while they will facilely dismiss him as unelectable their greatest fear may be realized—that Obama might actually have an opponent who is smart enough, articulate enough, and courageous enough to really take him on. Remember McCain’s almost apologetic tone as he offered milquetoast criticisms of Obama? That will not be Newt’s approach (though it will be Romney’s) and they know it. He will expose the pretender-in-chief for the the socialist/communist that he really is and I do not have the confidence that anyone beside Newt has the ability to do that. (As sincere as Bachmann and Santorum and Perry are, I am just not convinced they could pull it off.)
Yes, Newt has issues. He has baggage. He has contradictory positions and he is more friendly to big government solutions than I would like. But if we are worried about him, then the answer is not to abandon the person who can give Obama the most forceful challenge. Instead, we should work night and day to make sure that we win both houses of Congress. That will go a long way toward keeping him in line.
I won’t deny that Newt is a loose cannon, prone to shoot from the hip. But at least he is a cannon. And in a field of pea shooters and b-b guns, he is what we need.
If LRon does well in Iowa, it only helps ONE person - and that's Romney.
Go Newt!
Working in the private sector and representing or advising a GSE is non-conservative? Is that because making money is non-conservative? The scent of BS within this survey/poll is strong
The Romneybots are becoming desperate. This article is the proof.
I find it quite telling that the link from this article to Evolving Strategies does not tell us the specific anti-Newt and anti-Romney ads so we can decide for ourselves just how hard-hitting the respective negative ads are. All kinds of ways an outfit can manipulate this kind of survey.
The current Republican candidates are determined to send our nominee into the General Election beaten, bloodied and broke. Obozo and the Dems have got to be pissing their pants with glee at our Primary Process. And please, don’t anyone tell me the vetting process is good. The vetting was over three weeks ago; now it’s just sheer “search and destroy”. We will pull defeat from the jaws of victory, by damn.
Mitt Romney is the perfect GOP candidate, we democrats really really think so.
So you should choose Mitt Romney.
Really. you should.
We would be really really afraid if you chose Mitt Romney to run against us. We meant it!
That would be just awful for us...
Besides, he's next, right?
Cognitive dissonance: a shift to supporting Romney (father of RomneyCare) because Newt's ties to an old health care mandate proposal were bad.
“yet you post an article about how this kind of attack benefits Romney but does little for other candiates”
Well, the point of the article is that in a two man race, Newt will lose because his past is not known to most voters and it will come back to haunt him.
My point is that Bachmann will not be vulnerable to attacks and will consolidate conservative support. She has no baggage and can beat Romney, Obama, etc.
I finally found the links to the negative commercials for Newt and Romney.
The anti-Newt commericial was 2:28 in length.
Romney's was :58.
Do you consider that an apples to apples test?
This one stinks. And given your Romney-pimping history, the stench is coming from you as well.
I wish editors would use words that reflect the proper meaning. “Decimated” means that you lose one out of ten.
My gawd... Americans are so damned much like sheep to be herded.
“Think THIS... now think THIS. Stop thinking THAT! Now move THIS way.”
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