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Republicans Uncertain Over Who Should Challenge Obama in 2012
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Posted on 02/03/2010 7:59:12 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Republicans Uncertain Over Who Should Challenge Obama in 2012

A new poll shows Republican voters are deeply divided over who they want to carry the party mantle in the 2012 presidential race. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leads the pack, a couple other names are close behind and a whopping 42 percent of Republicans are listed as undecided.

Republicans may be seeing the start of a political surge, but GOP voters still don't know who they want to lead it.

A new poll shows Republican voters are deeply divided over who they want to carry the party mantle in the 2012 presidential race. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leads the pack, a couple other names are close behind and a whopping 42 percent of Republicans are listed as undecided.

The numbers suggest the 2012 presidential primary is any Republicans' game. Republicans are expecting to pick up a lot of seats in the congressional midterm elections, buoyed by success in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections last year, and the Massachusetts Senate election last month. But while President Obama's approval ratings have dropped significantly since he took office, it's unclear who would be up to the task of challenging him.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary
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To: JohnG45

[I believe that liberals changed their name to progressives to hide the fact that they are liberals and to distance themselves from a label they know is toxic.]

Liberals were progressives before they were liberals (Woodrow Wilson ring a bell). They changed their name to “liberal” when people figured out what progressive meant. Now they want to be progressives again, which yes is the same thing as liberal. I guess to me, the term progressive is just as insulting as liberal.


81 posted on 02/03/2010 8:57:59 AM PST by KansasGirl
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To: loveliberty2

Thanks, that is a great quote from old Sam Adams. I think I will go and have one of his beers just to show my agreement with his sentiments.


82 posted on 02/03/2010 9:00:49 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: Sub-Driver

My dream ticket.

83 posted on 02/03/2010 9:02:21 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: KansasGirl

Indeed. A rose is a rose is a rose and a progressive is a liberal is a socialist! By any other name they smell the same!


84 posted on 02/03/2010 9:03:51 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: Sub-Driver

As long as it is someone who didn’t run in 2008: no more Romney, Rudy, Huckabee, McCain or Palin. Fred doesn’t count because he never actually ran in the first place. That was an abysmal year.


85 posted on 02/03/2010 9:03:57 AM PST by ari-freedom (Let me be clear: Obama sux)
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To: JRochelle

Mitch Daniels is my governor and I think he sucks.

Up until now, I had heard good things about Mitch, but I don't live in Indiana, so I probably missed some things. Just curious, what is it about him you don't like.

TIA

86 posted on 02/03/2010 9:04:23 AM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: w4women

DeMint/Bachman for 2012!


87 posted on 02/03/2010 9:04:28 AM PST by bt579 (America elected a reader when it needs a leader. Clean the House in 2010, Right the Wrong in 2012.)
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To: troy McClure

Hey, leave McClintock with us in this District...we don’t have a slew of good replacements, and at that, Tom barely won last election.


88 posted on 02/03/2010 9:08:57 AM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

I included Romney simply because he does poll well so far (name recognition for the most part, and, for the record, he does not poll well with me) and he would add to the debate. I certainly do not and will not support him for President, but if he wishes to run he is free to do so.


89 posted on 02/03/2010 9:09:30 AM PST by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: norge

He forced us to observe Daylight Savings Time, Hoosiers didn’t want that, and he leased the Toll Road, a road I use all the time, to a private company.

Yes I know that the arguement is that the private sector is better at running things. True, but the taxpayers paid for that road and all that has changed is that fees went up.
He got billions for it, and that money will be long gone before the 75 year lease is up.


90 posted on 02/03/2010 9:12:30 AM PST by JRochelle (My predictions on 2/3/2010: It will be Thune/Rubio in '12.)
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To: norge

Oh and he was one of the first to say that the Era of Reagan is over. That we need to get over Reagan.

Jerk.


91 posted on 02/03/2010 9:13:48 AM PST by JRochelle (My predictions on 2/3/2010: It will be Thune/Rubio in '12.)
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To: JRochelle

He forced us to observe Daylight Savings Time,

Whoops, I didn't know that. My father-in-law, Noblesville born and raised, called Standard TIme God's time, and he would not have approved!!!

92 posted on 02/03/2010 9:16:09 AM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I found it interesting that I went through 90 Posts and didn’t see one comment to my speculation that Jeb Bush may surface as a viable 2012 candidate, especially if Rubio (who he backs wins in FL in 2010.


93 posted on 02/03/2010 9:16:52 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: JRochelle

Doesn’t say much for his political IQ, does it?

BTW, I like Thune, a lot. And Liz Cheney sure is interesting.

One name I don’t want to see is Gingrich and McCain. Oh, make it two names.


94 posted on 02/03/2010 9:20:18 AM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: thethirddegree

My idea was more along the lines of primary challengers, but anything could happen.


95 posted on 02/03/2010 9:22:26 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: norge

Sales tax in IN has gone from 5 to 7% and tobacco taxes have skyrocketed. As Bush’s director of OMB he started with a 200+ billion surplus and 26 months later, there was a 400 billion deficit. Today of course that’s jsut chump change.
On the bright side, we now have life-time carry permits.


96 posted on 02/03/2010 9:25:35 AM PST by tumblindice
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To: tumblindice

I haven’t been able to get back to Hoosierland in awhile, and didn’t know that about the sales tax. The tobacco tax, unfortunately, is easy pickin’s all over the country it seems.


97 posted on 02/03/2010 9:27:59 AM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: SnakeDoctor

First, our candidate will be decided in the primaries, from a whole list of repubs.

Second, I don’t want to give the dems 3 years to attack.


98 posted on 02/03/2010 9:28:16 AM PST by passionfruit (When illegals become legal, even they won't do the work Americans won't do)
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To: norge

Or should I say I haven’t had the chance to “wander Indiana”? ;)


99 posted on 02/03/2010 9:29:10 AM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: passionfruit
First, our candidate will be decided in the primaries, from a whole list of repubs.

I would prefer that our earlier primaries be held in actual Republican states like Oklahoma, Utah, Idaho, and Georgia rather than Democrat states like Iowa and New Hampshire. By allowing Democrats to choose our candidates, is it any wonder why we got stuck with John McCain last time.

100 posted on 02/03/2010 9:32:35 AM PST by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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