Posted on 01/09/2012 11:44:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The nominating process may officially be underway, but Republicans have yet to enthusiastically embrace a potential nominee for president - and despite the late date, most would like to see other candidates enter the race, according to a new CBS News poll.
The survey finds that 58 percent of Republican primary voters want more presidential choices, while just 37 percent say they are satisfied with the current field. The percentage of Republican primary voters that wants more choices has increased 12 percentage points since October.
Mitt Romney, the frontrunner for the nomination, has struggled to break 30 percent support in state and local polls in an election cycle that has seen multiple candidates move ahead of Romney in the polls before seeing their support erode. In this national survey, taken after Romney's narrow victory in the Iowa caucuses, the former Massachusetts governor leads the field - though he holds just 19 percent support. Only 28 percent of GOP primary voters say they've made up their mind, and just 20 percent who've made a choice strongly favor their candidate.
It's mathematically possible for another candidate to enter the race as late as early February and still win enough delegates to take the nomination, though some deadlines for candidates to get on state ballots have already passed, including those in delegate-rich Virginia and Illinois. A late entry into the GOP race would come with potentially-overwhelming obstacles, including the need to instantly build a national campaign apparatus and do the hard work of getting on state ballots in an extremely compressed time period.
The list of prominent Republicans who have announced they would not seek the presidency this cycle include Chris Christie, Sarah Palin, Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan and Haley Barbour....
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Count me in that 58%. The only republican candidate whose domestic I can support is positively crackers on foreign policy, but, unless his domestic policies are implimented, and soon, we won’t be able to afford the robust foreign policy supported by the rest.
As Dr. James McHenry, a Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention, wrote in his notes on the meetings and their aftermath:
A lady asked Dr. Franklin "Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?" "A republic" replied the Doctor "if you can keep it."
Sadly, Dr. Franklin's rare bout of cynicism seems to have been justified.
The original European Dark Ages lasted over 300 years, roughly 376 AD to 800 AD, and I am afraid that the wealth and resources available for looting today will allow the far left to send us into another Dark Age that will outlast the first one. If America's wealth, even with the declining productivity imposed by a liberal economy, is turned toward supporting what Obama wants our country to be, our resources may allow the big government secularists who worship the state to hold power worldwide for longer than I can imagine. I just hope and pray that we can preserve the ideas of the United States I was born in so that freedom can return some day, hopefully with better safeguards against the mistakes our generation permitted to fester.
montag813: Groans, puts face in palm, as he realizes Donald Trump is probably reading this same article right about now.
Hey Paul, Trump and anyone else thinking about it: No Third Party Run! Repeat, over and over.
I saw someone else post that recently and forgot about it. Well thanks alot GOP leaders, especially those in Virginia.
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