Gingrich Surges To Lead In Poll

Wall Street Journal ^ | 1-27-12 | Neil King

[VinL]

Newt Gingrich is outpacing Mitt Romney by a comfortable margin among Republican voters nationwide, but also is showing evidence of the vulnerabilities that could hurt the former House speaker in a general election, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

With the two rivals fighting it out in Florida after Mr. Gingrich's big South Carolina victory last week, the poll found Republicans nationwide favoring Mr. Gingrich 37% to 28% over Mr. Romney. GOP voters gave the former House speaker high marks for knowledge and experience, while they continued to harbor doubts about Mr. Romney's positions on the issues and his feel for average Americans. WSJ/NBC News Poll

Poll archive: Results of previous WSJ/NBC News polls

But the survey also finds that many Americans overall, notably political independents, hold negative feelings about Mr. Gingrich, and that Mr. Romney fares considerably better in a hypothetical matchup against Democratic President Barack Obama.

The poll captures on a larger stage much of the drama playing out now in Florida, where Mr. Romney is scrambling to stop Mr. Gingrich's resurgence by jabbing at his weaknesses. After trailing at the start of the week, Mr. Romney has moved to even or just ahead in more recent polls. Florida holds its primary next Tuesday.

[Venturer]

Romney is as Counterfeit as Obama’s Birth Certificate.

He is a phony.

[newgeezer]

Great post but, you neglected to ping the FReeper whom you quoted (TexasFreeper2009).

No worries, I took care of it for you.

[Krankor]

Newt will save us

[RedMDer]

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[PaleoBob]

Palin, Thompson, Rush, Levin and a few others...are in the tank for Romney and were never very conservative...they just assumed the mantle

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Rush has endorsed no one. Palin said she’d have voted for Newt in South Carolina. Levin has said on several occasions he would vote for Santorum if he could. Fred Thompson? He just endorsed Newt on Hannity’s show the other night. You are VERY misinformed.

[KamperKen]

Newt Gingrich referred to Bob Dole in the early 1980’s as “the tax collector for the welfare state”. It was that same Bob Dole that almost sank the Reagan presidency with his connivance on TEFRA in 1982.

TEFRA raised taxes during the middle of the sharp recession with the promised reduction in spending of $3 for every $1 in revenue increases. True to form of our political class, including/especially RINO’s, the spending reductions never materialized.

Reagan said that TEFRA was the greatest mistake of his presidency. It was and it delayed the recovery for another year and a half.

We can thank Bob Dole for this greatest mistake of Reagan’s presidency.

[freekitty]

Agree.

[wardaddy]

lol...you are both right after looking at that errant post of mine...I wrote it incorrectly...we had a sitter waiting for parents date night and I got in a hurry..i meant to say they were the “exceptions” but it was on my droid and got broke up wrong

i am very informed..wish I were not sometimes...ignorance truly is bliss

but I wrote that post like a big dummy..i’m laughing at how stupid that must have looked to ya

i’m truly sorry...hopefully that stumble will quickly lapse into the already rather full dustbin of my not so great posts..

God bless

Ben...sorry I misunderstood your last post to me

[Catsrus]

You lie. Levin has said many times, that he would vote for Santorum, and he went postal on the attacks of Newt. Sure, Palin is in the tank for Romney. That’s why she told SC voters to vote for Newt. You are nutso!

[wardaddy]

if you would take the time to read the thread..which I don;t blame you...I don't either usually but when I realized later my posting mistake..I posted this ...right above the post you just made btw

To: PaleoBob; Ben Reyes
lol...you are both right after looking at that errant post of mine...I wrote it incorrectly...we had a sitter waiting for parents date night and I got in a hurry..i meant to say they were the “exceptions” but it was on my droid and got broke up wrong

i am very informed..wish I were not sometimes...ignorance truly is bliss

but I wrote that post like a big dummy..i’m laughing at how stupid that must have looked to ya

i’m truly sorry...hopefully that stumble will quickly lapse into the already rather full dustbin of my not so great posts..

God bless

Ben...sorry I misunderstood your last post to me

48 posted on Thu Jan 26 2012 22:00:16 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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[Catsrus]

No problem. I’m glad you realized your mistake. God Bless.