Posted on 06/16/2011 7:13:38 AM PDT by ejdrapes
Who are party moderates? People who would vote for an avowed Marxists over a conservative in the fall?
FWIW, a sizeable portion of the electorate is apolitical and votes with their feelings rather than their brains. Frank Luntz seems to have a talent for finding these people. I was very encouraged by the the good reception which Michelle Bachmann got from the Luntz focus group after this debate.
It does not matter whether Bachmann is a Romney stooge.
Most FReepers, including me, really liked her
UNTIL her attack on Gov. Palin with Rollins
whom she thereafter condoned, and kept on.
Does it really matter whether she is a nasty, backstabbing RomneyBOT without judgment
OR an incompetent docile RINO-plaything?
I have often wondered why Romney gets support myself.
So, I started asking. Most people don’t follow politics as close as we do. Many people are political followers on the internet...but many could care less until close to election time. They just hear Romney is a conservative or Republican on the TV. They have no background info on him at all.
So, what has to happen is that the candidates in the field will have to take it to him in the coming months. Right now they all have to set up Obama as who they all are against, but soon, they will have to go at each other.
It will happen as the time moves on.
Romney is not leading all of them and this Rasmussen poll doesn’t include Palin so it’s worthless.
http://media.economist.com/images/pdf/Toplines20110615.pdf
Palin 20%
Romney 14%
Rudy 11%
Perry 8%
Cain 7%
Bachmann 5%
Paul 5%
Gingrich 5%
Pawlenty 4%
Santorum 3%
Huntsman 2%
>This is a bare-faced lie! I dont know a single Tea Partier who is for Romney. Rasmussen can go pound sand.<
I believe it. I also believe it’s meaningless at this point. These are national polls and it’s early. Even 95% of the “tea party” crowd are folks who don’t follow this stuff each and every day like Freepers do. By the time the caucuses roll around in Iowa, these numbers will be far far different.
Bachmannn a Romney Bot? You’re deranged.
I agree.
Why is a poll from the economist anymore worthwhile than one from Rasmussen?
Maybe I have been listening at the wrong time, but it seems that many on Fox are too impressed with Romney. Laura Ingraham also seems to have nice things to say about him. Did you hear her interview with GeorgeStephanopoulos? She really seems to trust him. Rush remains a strong intelligent conservative. I'm not sure what is going on, but it seems under the surface, some are gently pushing their favorite. Maybe I'm wrong?
You sold me. When you’re Wright, you’re Wright! ;-)
The poll from the Economist included Palin. That’s why it’s more worthwhile.
“Some other candidate” isn’t a choice in the first question asked in the Rasmussen poll:
“1* If the 2012 Republican Primary for President were held today would you vote for Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain or Jon Huntsman?”
Worthless.
Deceptive poll, leaving out expected but undeclared candidates and not listing any option for ‘other’.
Once you’ve started with that, Romney is the only candidate listed with widespread name recognition. Additionally, this was taken just as the all-pervasive media boiled the debate down to a victory for #1 Romney and #2 Bachmann.
This summer I bet the tea party will have a commercial telling all the truth about Romney. I will be donating to get that commercial pushed nationally.
Those polled at home numbers only; how many WORKING folks are home? Not many less a few self-employed. Poll is bogus. Have to poll folks on cell phones, too. Laura Ingram mentioned this today.
NOW, THIS IS SURPRISING:
Romney and Bachmann are tied among primary voters who say they are Tea Party members, with 26% support each.
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