Posted on 03/25/2010 4:43:59 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
A new nonpartisan [see post 1 below for how nonpartisan this poll really is] nationwide poll shows that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is currently the strongest GOP presidential candidate for the 2012 election. The poll also shows President Obama leading all potential Republican candidates, but by narrower margins than he did last August. The poll was conducted March 17-20, 2010 by Clarus Research Group, a Washington, D.C.-based polling firm, using live telephone interviewers. It was based on a representative nationwide sample of 1,050 U.S. registered voters, with a margin of error of +/- 3 percent. The survey was not sponsored or paid for by any client, candidate or political party.
OBAMA RE-ELECTION
In a head-to-head match-up, Obama leads Romney 45 percent to 41 percent with 14 percent undecided. Though still behind the incumbent, Romney has strengthened his position since last August when the Clarus Poll showed Obama leading him by a 47-38 percent.
Romney is the early polling frontrunner for the Republican nomination, said Ron Faucheux, president of Clarus. He has improved his standing against Obama and runs first among Republicans for the 2012 presidential nomination.
In the poll, Obama leads former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin 52 percent to 34 percent, close to the 53 percent to 34 percent lead he posted against her in August.
Though he continues to top all the potential GOP candidates surveyed, President Obama captures more than 50 percent of the vote only against Palin in the latest poll, said Faucheux.
(Excerpt) Read more at clarusrg.com ...
My short list is made up of the people who were in the fight against Obama during 2009 and 2010. I’m not interested in someone who is looking for a coronation.
If Romney was a leader he would be leading right now. If he were a fighter he’d be fighting right now while we’re in the fight of the century. Instead he is moving his chess pieces around on the board and pulling strings trying to get himself appointed as leader. Leaders don’t wait to be appointed as leader, they lead.
I have been paying a lot of attention to Mike Pence who is one of the Republicans that has been on the floor of the House fighting this bill and in interviews. He is really good in speeches and in interviews. I am really impressed with our house members especially Paul Ryan.
Think our bench is much stronger this time then in 2008 — the younger guys are so articulate and know exactly what they believe and don’t waffle.
Palin also signed on to do 8 documentaries on AK so she is not going to run and frankly it is a good thing — she has become overexposed. Must admit her comments about targeting 20 seats in the House left me with WHAT? Especially since the RNC is targeting 40 to Take Back the House. If we were only down by 20, Obamacare would not have passed.
He wont survive the GOP debates
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Debate Mod: “Mr Romney, where are you on the issue of abortion ?”
RINOROMNEY: “I’m proud of my mother who ran for the US Senate for Michigan in 1970 on an abortion platform...
I sustain Roe V Wade...It’s the law of the land”
Debate Mod: “But Mr Romney, abortion wasnt legal in 1970. It wasnt the land of the land then”
RINO Romney: “But families are forever.”
Yet over at Hotair moron Allahpunit is treating the phony poll like its gospel.
Allahpundit was the moron who spread the phony Huffington Post imaginary interview with JOhn Cornyn.
“she is not going to run and frankly it is a good thing she has become overexposed.”
She told you she was not going to run? Or is it just wishful thinking? All the signs point to her being a candidate.
Mike Pence and Paul Ryan should stay in Congress. Neither one of them is known or has a snowball’s chance of beating her.
And as far as “being overexposed”, she continues to draw huge crowds wherever she goes. No other GOP contender could fill a phone booth.
“Allahpundit was the moron who spread the phony Huffington Post imaginary interview with JOhn Cornyn.”
Allahpundit is a shill for Romney and has been ever since Rudy Guiliani crashed and burned. I think he is a closet Dem.
“He wont survive the GOP debates, because by then Obamacare will be a dismal failure and he will be unable to defend the fact that he conducted the beta testing in Massachusetts.”
I pray your right
Hotair is now owned by Salem Communications; a Romney supporting organization. Romney may actually own a large percentage of Salem. Salem radio is completely in the tank for Romney. Hugh Hewitt, medved, bennet, prager.
Sooo..the Republicrats are out in full force...
the Oligarchy gets antsy...when the peons and peasants get uppity....
Oh, great, a different commie with better hair and an "R" after his name. I feel better already.
Me neither. He's not different enough from Obama to warrant letting the Republicans get blamed for his policies.
Just what the nation needs - a RINO who passed RomneyCare. If the Republicans can’t do better than this, they’ll eff up the clear advantage handed them on a silver platter by the Imperial Congress. But, then, it’s virtually never possible to overstate the degree to which our nation’s politicans - on both sides of the aisle - can eff things up for Americans.
How about a little barf alert when you post an article about the abortion-supporting, gun-grabbing Mitt?
President RomneyCare, WHAT A HOOT!!
HAH, HA, HA, HAH, HA, LOL
One word. Romney-Care.
No way I’m voting for Romney. No way in hell.
This is just a article to attack the Reagan of are time, Sarah Palin, they did the same to Reagan!
“How about a little barf alert when you post an article about the abortion-supporting, gun-grabbing Mitt?”
I thought the “Dem Push Poll Alert” was more descriptive. I consider a barf alert for Romney to be redundant.
Exactly. If I vote for Romney and he does much the same as Obama than I'm responsible for his actions by voting him in. If I vote for a 3rd candidate if it's Romney/Obama and either of them win I'm not responsible for their actions because I've registered all I have, which is 1 vote, against the bad choice.
If the US is going to be destroyed, better that it's the democrats who take the blame for their own actions.
Hiding, sending out his saboteurs and manipulators
selling his ghostwritten book,
helping Gore push the fraud of climate change,
and attacking the "tea party".
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