ROMNEY LEADS GOP 2012 FIELD, GAINS AGAINST OBAMA (DEM Push Poll Alert)

Clarus Research Group ^ | March 25, 2010 | Ron Faucheux

[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.

[Norman Bates]

“If Romney becomes the Republican candidate, all is lost.”

Please. Romney is the most likely candidate to push aggressively for repeal of capital gains taxes which will be very important for capital growth given that the rate of inflation in the coming years is likely to be going up.

[jetson]

Lets not allow the dems to pull a McCain on us again.

[fatnotlazy]

And he loves socialized medicine. See the Massachusetts state run health system.

[Norman Bates]

“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.”

PKM, do you really think she won’t especially with all the activity of her PAC. I don’t see 20 candidates as a bad thing. Most PACs couldn’t handle anything close to that.

[Brices Crossroads]

Don’t look now but another Dem polling outfit (PPP) is showing Mitt leading in the GOP primaries in Ohio and Wisconsin. They are achieving this highly dubious result by dividing the conservative vote between Palin and Huckabee, as if: a)Huck is going to run; and b)If Huck did run, the conservative vote would stay split and would not coalesce around Palin (when Huck’s big government and soft on crime pardon policies are scrutinized).

OHIO
Romney 32 - Huckabee 28 - Palin 26

WISCONSIN
Romney 32 - Palin 27 - Huckabee 23

[Diogenesis]

Please. Mitt Romney is the WORST Governor ever.

HE FLED TO LA JOLLA.

MITT ROMNEY - THE PROVEN BAD GOVERNOR

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

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“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

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"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005

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Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>

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"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006

[Diogenesis]

Mitt RomneyCARE - For When the GOP Really, Really Must Lose
and pull Defeat from the Jaws of Certain Victory

RESULTS – Feb. 2010 Early Freerepublic.com straw vote FOR GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
Governor Palin was the overwhelming choice of freepers who voted!
Palin - 102 votes - THE WINNER
None Of The Above - 12 votes
Barbour - 10 votes
Hunter - 8 votes
Demint - 7 votes
Pence - 3 votes
Ryan - 3 votes
Jindal - 2 votes
Jeb Bush - 2 votes
Liz Cheney - 2 votes
Mitch Daniels - 2 votes
Newt Gingrich - 2 votes
Thune, Gary Johnson, Joe Wilson, Scott Brown and rick Perry all got a vote.
No Votes for Mitt RomneyCARE or Ron Paul or Huckabee .... 0 votes (none, zed, nada, doughnut, oh-no) “

[Norman Bates]

While I’m not going to defend that bill my understanding is that it was tampered with by the Democrats before they passed it. Romney said he doesn’t support the federal health care bill.

[Brices Crossroads]

A list of Public Policy Polling’s clients: Unions and Proabortion groups all. Do they prefer Mitt Romney to Sarah Palin? You betcha.

AARP of North Carolina

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

Blueprint NC

Chatham Coalition

Childcare Providers Together Michigan

Conservation Council of North Carolina

Common Sense Foundation

Equality NC

Faith In America

Friends of Dorothea Dix Park

Greater Cleveland Partnership

Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce

Lillian’s List

Maryland for our Future

National Education Association

National Popular Vote, Inc.

NARAL Pro-Choice NC

NCGO!

NC Justice Center

NC Policy Watch

NC Sierra Club

Nevada State Education Association

North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers

North Carolina AFL-CIO

North Carolina Association of Educators

North Carolina Conservation Network

North Carolina Democratic Party

North Carolina Democratic Senate Caucus

North Carolina Democratic House Caucus

North Carolina Medical Board

North Carolina NAACP

Parents for Educational Freedom, NC

Partnership for North Carolina’s Future

Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Central NC

South Carolina Education Association

State Employees Association of North Carolina

[Al B.]

PPP has polled 8 states individually and Palin leads in none.

Moreover, PPP says Romney leads Palin among CONSERVATIVES in 5 of the 8 states.

You believe that? :)

H/T to 'techno' at C4P for this info.

[fatnotlazy]

Sorry, Norman, but Romney is a republican light. We need a strong conservative or we’re going to wind up with four more years of Obama socialism. The Republicans tried that “conciliatory bipartisan karp” by running John McCain for president...didn’t work.

[Brices Crossroads]

FR is Palin country. Romney bots( all four of them) should migrate to the Frum forum.

[Brices Crossroads]

“Moreover, PPP says Romney leads Palin among CONSERVATIVES in 5 of the 8 states.”

Let’s just keep exposing the bias in these so called polls and those who take them. The internet is great for shining the light on this stuff. We didn’t have it back in 1976 and 1980 and, as a result, the Dems and Establishment Republicans got a lot more mileage out of the polls back then. It could be demoralizing at times. It won’t work nearly as well this time. We are onto their tricks, and we are going to spread the word.

[Norman Bates]

“As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent”

Ooh, it trailed by a whopping 4%.

“Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney”

You cite these statistics as if Mitt Romney controls the hiring and firing of private manufacturers. Technology has wiped out most of those jobs. Apparently more in Massachusetts than the rest of the country.

“Romney failed to endorse President Bush’s $726 billion tax-cut proposal”

He’s governor of a state, not a federal politician. Who cares? Besides name the years Bush balanced the budget.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

We also need a major BARF ALERT on this article

Romney = RINOmney

[Brices Crossroads]

“We also need a major BARF ALERT on this article”

As long as the word Romney appears in the article, I consider the barf alert to be redundant.

[ak267]

In other news....

Klingons convert to Christ

Cats and dogs living together

The sun rises in the west

Gas stations in NJ give out correct change

[InternetTuffGuy]

This isn’t a dem push poll, this is a CFR push poll.

Hillary was supposed to win the last election. Obama threw in a lefty-marxist wrench into their plans similar (conversely) to the way Reagan threw in a Pro-American, Conservative wrench into the Bush 1 NWO agenda.

Romney will be lauded, even over Obama, by the media. The media may lean far left, but they get paid by the same folks that pushed Hillary.

Romney is a Republican Hillary, but with smaller balls than hers.

Pray for a real Conservative.

[ncalburt]

Its the land of the village idiots over there at HOTAIR.

Not a single poster actually did any research or questioned on the Dem party front group named Clarus Research Group and the idiotic results.
Any time you one of these group state they are non partisan
group then you know its Dem Party operation.

Allahpundit I think is a Dem operative .
he was running around telling everyone that Scott Brown was going to lose and post nonsense like this
laughable poll results .
Mitt Romney , the guy that Obama care disaster is based is out in front . PLease.
At least the posters here do a background check on these
supposed inbiased polls.

[SharpRightTurn]

“A new nonpartisan . . . nationwide poll shows that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is currently the strongest GOP presidential candidate for the 2012 election.”

Yeah, among the DNC party insiders. Just as McLame was. Just as Dole was.

We'll be hearing this disinformation constantly for the next two years as Dims and Rinos try to make sure any conservative candidacy is stillborn.

We need to get behind a true conservative shortly after the Nov. 2010 elections and not splinter our vote. Then let the Rinos split the country club/effete vote.