Rudy seems to be pulling away with no one stepping up offering a real challenge yet.
Over the long run, Willard’s support is like a sine wave, ranging from about 10 to 16.
Obviously all those Rudy supporters will have to be purged from the party. Didn’t they get the memo several people on FreeRepublic disapprove.
Fred is still at 11%, Hahahhaa, some great conservative hope.
Juan seems to have topped out.
Rasmussen and Zogby were on Hannity’s radio show last week talking about a 3-4 day lead time before current events show in the polls. We probably won’t see any significant changes until maybe tomorrow or Monday after the weekend digestment.
I have to admit I’m worried.
I worry about the ignorance of voters, and I worry about the stupidity of the Republican Party pros. The country clubbers are still in charge of the party, and they only give in to the conservative voters when the conservative voters manage to get their act together and force them to.
May the best man win. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always happen that way. Of course the MSM will do their best to muddy the waters and push impossible candidates like Huckabee, to ensure that the conservative base doesn’t coalesce behind the best candidate available.
The MSM can’t prevail if people really wake up. But I don’t think that has happened yet. Let’s hope it does, before it’s too late.
This makes my point again and again. Republicans get NOWHERE by attacking each other. The key to success is to attack Hillary. He who does that most, best, and most often, wins.
I wondered where Spiff's chart was this morning.
These numbers are indicative of where the Country actually is at the moment.
The GOP knows this, and that’s why they have “anointed” rooty...they want ANYONE in the Oval office, as long as that person has an (R) in front of their name. And, to be sure, rooty most represents what the left and the RINO’s have done to our Country.
This is the reason I say if we don’t have a true Conservative, like Thompson or Hunter, as the nominee, I won’t vote. Period. I have my own mailing list, and I encourage those on that list to do likewise, as I encourage other FReepers to.
We need to stand up for our principles, or fall with them, but not give in to the socialist leaning, liberal compromising, anti-American, self serving POS’s of this world.
We need no better example than that of California to see what happens when RINO’s are elected under the tent of the GOP.
The GOP needs to support US, not the other way around.
If my Country is to be run further into the ground and the abyss that is liberalism, let it be a Dummie that does it, not an f’n RINO that further ruins the virtues, and taints the name, of Conservatism.
The Country has been scared into a compromised position by the left and the RINO’s. Conservatives are in the closet now, they’ve been vilified so much, so often, by so many.
We have to sell Conservatism all over again.
I think it's more likely that the 17% number was an outlier -- Weyrich's tantrum wouldn't have had enough time to make that big of an effect, and Romney occassionally hit's 17% only to rapidly drop back to 13-14%, so he tends to get a few positive outliers from time to time (I have yet to determine a pattern).
“Mitt down 4 percentage points since yesterday’s scurrilous accusation that Fred bribed the NRLC for its endorsement.”
I don’t think that has been in play long enough to affect the polls. I am surprized that Thompson hasn’t started to climb with the NRTL endorsement.
Actually, these numbers say to me that Guiliani has a solid base of support at around 25%. About 25% is undecided and the last 50% is split between Romney, Thompson, McCain, and Huckabee. These four, at this snapshot in time, are virtually tied.
It really is time for some of the smaller players like Hunter (no matter how qualified a candidate he may be) to do what is best for the party and drop out and throw his support to whomever he thinks is best to get the nomination. This would help break up this logjam.
Otherwise, we can expect a Guiliani victory, IMO.
Mitt never made any such “scurrilous” accusation. However, I do remember someone remarking that Mitt was buying South Carolina! Pot. Kettle. Black.
Giuliani continues to dominate the field as he pulls even higher in these polls. His 4 closest rivals still continue to fight amongst themselves, allowing no clear challenger to Giuliani. Romney retains a 2nd place position for the 5th day in a row. Thompson loses another point and is tied for 3rd place with McCain and Huckabee. Thompson's point drop is surprising since the NRLC endorsement came 2 days ago and should be reflected in the poll results.
Excellent analysis.
Conservatives split vote while JulieAnnie walks away with the nomination.