Posted on 01/13/2008 5:43:00 PM PST by freespirited
They are all pretty weak.
If you ignore melanin and genitals, there's not much difference between them.
Enough read.
CNN? Not a legitimate pollster.
The Democrats certainly are. The GOP candidates are much stronger, each and every one of them.
Except Ron Paul.
I think Medved is right that it’s another warning against putting Mitt at the top of the ticket, but it’s also a case where the big dog that didn’t bark. That is they either didn’t poll or didn’t publish on the likely strongest candidate’s results: Fred, of course.
The problem with Romney is that he’s a Mormon. The GOP base won’t support a Mormon, and the Dems certainly won’t support one, particularly a Republican one.
Very sad in my view. I don’t think this race should be about religion. But it looks like it will be, and it looks like the determination of the GOP rank and file to vote based on religion is going to hand this to the Democrats.
These head to heads mean nothing more than name recognition at this stage.
LOL. CNN doesn't do the polling. They contract it out to a real polling firm.
What's the difference between losing 48-49, and losing 20-80?
If we have to nominate McCain to get up to 48%, and still lose, then is it worth it?
I don't think so.
Besides, I think O'bama and Clinton will chew each other up between now and July.
Exactly - bigger gaps than this have been overcome after both candidates were nominated.
This far before the election, this is measuring name ID and little else. Romney polls the weakest, because no one knows who he is. McCain, Giuliani and even Thompson are better known.
That said, I wish we could just pick “none of the above,” and start the process over.
I’d rather not let the MSM tell me who’s an electable republican..... if that’s ok with Wolf Blitzer.
The top 3 or 4 are running to see who gets the privilege of getting whooped in the general election.
Indeed. Many people don't want to admit that Mitt being Mormon is one of the reasons they don't support him. They blame on his liberalism, flip-flop, etc. However, I don't think that is enough to explain his very high negative ratings. There are other Republican candidates with much worse records yet they don't receive that high of negative ratings. In one survey recently, they found 4% of Americans would not vote for a female for president, 2% would not vote for Black, and 14% would not vote for a Mormon.
Two words, McCain-Feingold. Two more words, McCain-Kennedy.
I fear that long-term socialism is truly coming to the U.S. soon.
I agree. Be thinking about which foreign country you’ll flee to. I hear Costa Rica is nice.
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