Posted on 05/14/2006 3:07:43 AM PDT by Panerai
Voters nationally see Mitt Romney as a pretty face but an empty suit, giving him high marks for his chiseled good looks but low grades for honesty, conviction and uniqueness, according to a high-tech poll provided exclusively to the Herald.
“He’s seen as the same old pol - nothing that makes him stand out,”said Aaron A. Reid, chief behavioral scientist for RKM Research and Communications.
The survey used online responses from a scientific sample of participants to measure emotional “gut” responses to photographs of the candidates. Researchers say the cutting-edge technique - so far untested in the political polling field - provides a more accurate measure of a voter’s opinion than traditional telephone polling.
The poll also featured head-to-head matchups showing Republican Sen. John McCain beating New York’s Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in blue-state Massachusetts by a 6-point margin, 53 to 47. Nationwide, the maverick Arizona pol beats the wife of former President Bill Clinton by 10 points.
Clinton fares better when pitted against Romney. She beats the hometown governor on his own turf by 16 points and nationwide by 8 points. The online poll sampled 848 people nationwide, including 378 from Massachusetts, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percent.
But the most compelling - and controversial - findings attempt to unearth the true feelings respondents have for the politicians. As Reid explained, response times measured down to the millisecond reveal how voters associate candidates with six critical traits: honesty, conviction, attractiveness, likability, uniqueness and optimism.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
Mitt is a second generation RINO. His dad, George Romney was governor of Michigan for eight years.
I'll be the first to put myself up for "Bushbot" target practice and say without hesitation I will be voting for whoever the Republican candidate is against Hillary, or, frankly, any of the Democrats. I see no compelling reason NOT to, and many reasons to keep that woman and her party out of the White House...even if it's with McCain.
Gun grabber with a big kool aid smile.
Exactly. His father was governor of Michigan in 1968 when he ran against Nixon for the Republican nomination. His candidacy exploded when he admitted he'd been "brainwashed" by US Generals when he visited Vietnam.
The democrats cannot be trusted with national security. Period. I will do whatever I can to keep them out of the White House, regardless of who they run.
Romney is a Rodney King-type:
"Can't we all just get along"
Forcing everyone to get health insurance is not a solution...Its Hillary-lite.
We need a free market in health care, not more insurance.
Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid is driving the cost up now.
Romney isn't my guy by far.
Lopez: If you had to bet money today…do Republicans stop her?
Podhoretz: Yes—with this caveat. If the party fails to focus on the threat from Hillary and tears itself apart from within in pursuit of doctrinal purity, then those in pursuit of purity over practical politics will hand the country to Hillary in 2008.
Lopez: In the short term: If Republicans lose big in 2006, how will it reflect on 2008? Will it be a good kick-start to the GOP or just put Dems that much ahead?
Podhoretz: Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: Losing begets losing.
online responses from a scientific sample
You've got to love this stuff. An online poll is headline news.
OK, I've been brainwashed on Romney.
ditto
Well, I'm not into guys, but the second half of that is undeniable, Romney is a worm.
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