Rasmussen: Obama 45, Romney 45; Obama 48, Palin 42 (If elections were held today)

Hotair ^ | 7/20/2009 | Allahpundit

[pissant]

Hunter/DeMint. Accept no substitutes.

[April Lexington]

I am NOT supporting or voting for Mitt Romney...

[djsherin]

ping

[4rcane]

dont count on it, by the time the media find out who’s the front runner, he/she is going to torn down with slander and lies. Its amazing that Palin number is still higher despite the worst thans been thrown at her

[SeekAndFind]

So why is Romney polling better against Obama than Palin?

[cranked]

I apologize to those who advocate on behalf of Romney, but despite the pollings, Romney is not the answer.

[basil]

I can’t figure out the infatuation with Romney, either. He certainly isn’t the consevative I would like to see as president.

[djsherin]

Nor will I.

[Diogenesis]

“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006

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"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006

[LiberConservative]

Very good numbers for Palin, considering all the crap the media has been throwing at her.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

I like Rick Santorum for veep.

[Iron Munro]

This is how we ended up with Meghan McCain’s father as the Republican answer to Barack Obama in 2008.

Isn’t it a little naive to think that democrats polled are going to be truthful?
Why would they give an answer that may lead to republicans actually fielding the strongest candidate?

Democrats know that through polls and open primaries they can influence the republican choice with the objective of sidelining the candidates they fear most.

[Lilpug15]

HOW!!!!? Romneycare is a disaster - I’m glad that Glenn Beck is at least calling him out on it and making sure everyone knows who helped cause the Massachusetts mess - Romney is establishment and I trust him about as much as I trust Teddy Kennedy after a night of drinking...

[Diogenesis]

Willard Brutus Romney cowardly attacked Gov. Palin and her children.
Mitt should be ostrasized.

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

[roses of sharon]

Scary....Romney and family had better watch out, Hussein and goons (MSM) will be after them now!

[traditional1]

The State Run Media supports Mitt and doesn't want Palin (the clear front-runner in most conservatives opinion), as the MittWitts simply won't admit he's a Liberal/RINO.

ONLY when you are on target and a true threat does the attack machine of the Liberals hammer you continuously, as they have Sarah Palin.

[April Lexington]

Liberal polling, I assume. They only poll RINOs...

[doc1019]

We have at least two years to go before a poll like this would even be relevant. ;-)

[InterceptPoint]

You Go Girl. Palin in 2012.