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Gallup: No GOP Frontrunner Yet, Which Is Rare
NRO ^ | March 06, 2011 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 03/07/2011 8:46:38 AM PST by RobinMasters

Gallup says that not having a clear presidential front-runner in the Republican party is historically abnormal:

“The wide-open battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination — with nearly a three-way tie among Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney – is quite different from the typical pattern observed in past Republican nomination contests. In Gallup polling since 1952, Republican Party nomination races always featured a clear front-runner at this stage of the campaign, and in almost all cases, that front-runner ultimately won the nomination.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2011polls; 2012gopprimary; bs4milt; nro4milt; nro4romneycare; paid4bymilt
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To: indylindy

I’m not ready to worry seriously about making a presidential choice yet. I’m more concerned with taking over the senate now. I like the idea of Rob Steele running against Debbie Stabenow.

Steele entered the house race late against Dingell and forced a tough expensive race where Dingell should have simply walked to an easy victory. Dingell won but not without taking the first real beating of his decades too long career.


41 posted on 03/07/2011 9:40:13 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: RobinMasters

Plus 5 in 1980 was not a huge lead.


42 posted on 03/07/2011 9:42:18 AM PST by Huck (Fools make feasts and wise men eat them - Poor Richard)
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To: redangus

[Palin guarantees 4 more years of O’Bama.]

That was clever.

Romney guarantees 4 more years of O’Bama.
Huckleberry guarantees 4 more years of O’Bama.
Newt guarantees 4 more years of O’Bama.

There, I’m three times as clever.


43 posted on 03/07/2011 9:43:44 AM PST by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: DaxtonBrown

“Palin is a “take no prisoners” kinda gal. I think that is what we need right now.”

Agreed. There seems to be a ruthless streak there which is needed right now. Not vicious, but ruthless. Sarah Barracuda versus the Eel.


44 posted on 03/07/2011 9:44:09 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans - Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: RobinMasters
I still think Sarah Palin deserves a shot. It's her turn.

And, she excites the voters.

45 posted on 03/07/2011 9:46:05 AM PST by Walts Ice Pick
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To: ClearCase_guy
Palin is hated and feared by the Left. I'd crawl over broken glass for her

And there you have it.

We have already chosen our nominee. The only question is, how much damage can the MSM-RINO coalition accomplish before her inauguration?

46 posted on 03/07/2011 9:47:54 AM PST by Jim Noble (I'd crawl over broken glass for her. Alea iacta est.)
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To: Diogenesis

Did they mean “President of Mexico” when they endorsed him?


47 posted on 03/07/2011 9:50:35 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I’m leaning more towards a dark horse from Georgia.


48 posted on 03/07/2011 9:51:45 AM PST by RockinRight (I once had my identity stolen. Once they got to know me, they gave it back right away.)
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To: redangus

I’ve always thought she is too “squeaky”, but I watched a speech she gave a couple months ago. Her points she made were tough and so poignant. No one else said it like she did. Since then, I’ve decided I’ll support her if she runs.


49 posted on 03/07/2011 9:54:03 AM PST by Rennes Templar (The pendulum is swinging back.)
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To: RobinMasters
Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney

Well if I must choose between these three, Palin is my woman!! In my opinion all she would have to do to surge far ahead of Huckabee and Romney is to announce and hold a rally.

I still hold out hope that there is someone in the wings that will make a truly great President, and that he or she will come forward real soon...

50 posted on 03/07/2011 9:58:25 AM PST by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Almost all of the Hucksters vote will fall into Palin’s lap. So the thing is..., how quickly can the Huckster fall out of it.


51 posted on 03/07/2011 10:01:41 AM PST by LibFreeUSA (Show me what Obama brought that was new and there you will find things only radical and destructive.)
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To: RobinMasters

It’s driving them nuts that they don’t know who to character assassinate.


52 posted on 03/07/2011 10:02:54 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: ClearCase_guy

We really have to elect someone that will stand up to the dims, the media, and RINOs and fight instead of “trying to get along” and “reaching across the aisle” or laying down to be walked on as I see it. Palin is definately the one I can see going head to head and toe to toe.


53 posted on 03/07/2011 10:02:59 AM PST by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: Navy Patriot

“Bobby Kennedy convinced him he should go into politics as a candidate.”

That’s not exactly how Michael Reagan tells the story.
I heard him say in an interview that Robert Kennedy had GE fire Ronald Reagan as host of the GE Theater.

In a sense you’re right; but it was Kennedy’s chicanery that resulted in Ronaldus Maximus becoming president. That was no act of altruism on Kennedy’s part. No Kennedy I know understands the word.


54 posted on 03/07/2011 10:06:56 AM PST by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: RobinMasters

Four years ago the democrats had a front runner who was considered unbeatable; a primary shoo-in and also the presumed next president.

What was her name, what was her name.....?

As far as the republicans go - the fact there isn’t a clear leader might be an indicator that they are moving away from the tradition of awarding the nomination based on who has been waiting in line the longest.

That’s not a bad thing.


55 posted on 03/07/2011 10:07:30 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: RockinRight

“I’m leaning more towards a dark horse from Georgia.”

Good line.
Don’t know what motivates me more - Watching Palin take sweet revenge against the media.

or - seeing Obama get beat by that dark horse -
Black Panther vs. Green Lantern

I wonder if Obama would still get 98% of that vote considering his latest DOMA stand?


56 posted on 03/07/2011 10:16:49 AM PST by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: RobinMasters

Gallup: No GOP Frontrunner Yet, Which Is Rare

Is that code-speak for "none of the Republican contenders proposed by the liberal news media have found favor with the conservative voting base at this time"? Trying removing the RINOs from the poll options and see where that leads.


57 posted on 03/07/2011 10:19:10 AM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I do think she will shortly become the person to beat. Lot sharper than the has beens.


58 posted on 03/07/2011 10:21:54 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: RobinMasters

Frankly, I like the fact that there is no front runner! It gives a wide open field for ALL the candidates to put their ideas out there for voters to see, and they’ll choose which ideas they like the best.


59 posted on 03/07/2011 10:30:49 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: A'elian' nation
In a sense you’re right; but it was Kennedy’s chicanery that resulted in Ronaldus Maximus becoming president.

Excellent, you are informed and observant. I was deliberately obtuse in my relating Kennedy's part. One who thinks left will read it as lauding Kennedy's statesmanship (LOL), an informed reader would spell it differently, as you did.

The important part is that the entire left, Rats and MSM is consumed by that chicanery, lying and Marxist philosophy, and Ronald Reagan LEARNED that. Then he decided that he would LEAD as well as promote, create, and support conservative principles and policy. Sarah Palin has also now learned that critical lesson about the left, and acts accordingly. As such her path to candidacy will be much different than the typical GOP candidate.

60 posted on 03/07/2011 10:31:48 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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