Posted on 07/16/2009 11:24:22 AM PDT by americanophile
One in four Republicans say Mitt Romney is their top choice for the 2012 presidential nomination -- giving him a slight lead over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday. Of all the Republicans and Republican-leaning respondents polled, 26 percent favored Romney as the nominee while 21 percent preferred Palin. Nineteen percent favored former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and 14 percent chose former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. While Palin trailed the former Massachusetts governor slightly in presidential preference, the majority of Republicans polled had a more favorable opinion of the Alaska governor than they did of any other GOP candidate. Seventy-two percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents have a favorable opinion of Palin -- compared with 56 percent for Romney and 59 percent for Huckabee, the poll found.
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No more stiff plastic politicians! Mitt has an important role in the movement, but it’s NOT as POTUS candidate.
A confirmed RINO...lovely.
Oh joy.........another weak pathetic RINO to further split and subvert the GOP.
Hello another 4 for Obama. Romney would go into the same defeat as McCain did.
NO MORE RINO’s!
Quick! Let’s all get down on our knees and worship the golden RINO! /sarc
Actually Fox News/Gallup reported it. You just posted the drivel...twice!
We are in deep doo doo...
If Mittens wants to be president, then he should speak up and stand up. Otherwise shut up and go away.
Something about this polling does not make sense. Sarah is FAR more popular then Romney, yet she is down 5 or so points to Romney for 2012. That doesn’t make sense. Something is fishy about this poll. Also, it is WAY too soon. We are still in 2009 for God’s sake
I agree it’s way to early...having said that I think there may be a difference in the poll between who people like most, and who they want as their nominee.
Barf!
Gallup-Speak: Republican-leaning = democrat
Romney —> GOP loss 2012
Well, if Romney is *it* ... the Republicans have obviously become comfortable with failure. Romney couldn’t even touch McCain’s popularity for pity’s sake. I wonder who the Independent and Libertarian candidates will be ... ?
I sent my RNC reply (without a donation) with PALIN or a REAL Conservative written all over the return envelope!
You would not believe the Palin bashing by the libs here in Calif.!!! We are visiting and the kool-aid has been drank from the media like it was Starbucks, haa!
Do I wnat the ex Governor of one of the most liberal states in the Union as President?
The State that elects Kennedy, Barney Frank, John F’in Kerry.
No real Conservative could get elected there. Not the kind I want for my President.
I will vote Sarah.
A Romney loss will mirror a McCain loss. All the people here with their verbal whips, demanding we vote for the lesser of two evils and screeching that anybody would be better than Obama, will suddenly blame the conservative movement for not supporting Mitt with enough love and affection during the campaign. Same old song. We lost 06. We lost 08. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Anybody who is seeking to reenact 1996 or 2008 next time is a real idiot and a Democrat fifth columnist.
Sounds like “we” are just as split as we were in 2008 — and we will probably get the same result if we don’t unite behind a single candidate early in the primary season.
And Gallup asked 500 Democrats what they thought Republicans might say if they were allowed to answer the questions themselves.
Polls are bogus, manipulative tactics to bend public opinion, not to report it.
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