Posted on 11/21/2011 2:08:56 PM PST by TBBT
Washington (CNN) - Newt Gingrich tops the list in the race for the GOP nomination, according to a new national survey.
And a CNN/ORC International Poll released on the eve of a CNN presidential debate focusing heavily on national security and foreign affairs also indicates Republicans consider the former House Speaker the most qualified GOP candidate to be Commander-in-Chief.
See full results (PDF)
Programming note: GOP presidential candidates face off at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday, November 22, in the CNN Republican National Security Debate in Washington, D.C.
According to the survey, 24% of Republicans and independent voters who lean towards the GOP say they are most likely to support Gingrich for their party's nomination, with 20% saying they back Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is making his second bid for the presidency.
Gingrich's four point margin over Romney is within the survey's sampling error. A CNN poll released one week ago had Romney at 24% and Gingrich at 22%. Gingrich was at just 8% in a CNN poll in October.
Gingrich's campaign was left for dead by many in May and June, following a number of controversies that spurred some of his top advisers and staffers quit, and that left the campaign coffers in the red.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
The narrative being formed. Conventional wisdom being talked about on all the news shows etc.... momentum...
Gingrich-Founded Think Tank Collected $55 Million in Past Decade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2810602/posts
Anybody but Mittens!
In before the hit squad.
Capitalism.
Folks are looking for the anti-Romney. Right now it’s Newt. I’d vote for him...heck...I’d vote for any of them over The Messiah.
Interesting that the media is beginning to take Newt’s past apart under a microscope. Yet we still can’t be shown Obama’s college grades, passport records, or see his orginal birth certificate. His ss card was issued in Connecticut in ‘77...for Pete’s sake...a state he’d never been to.
When he ran for the US Senate NPR advertised him as potentially the first African born US Senator. BTW...that story has been scrubbed from NPR’s archives.
We still don’t know who this guy is...but the media is going to go over Newt with a microscope.
In before the (shameless) HATE squad.
RINO insider on the rampage.
Me too.
Hip-hip-hurrah!
You folks are hilarious.
“Playground Bullies Incorporated”.
I have to say I like that.
I really want Herman Cain ! I don’t want any Washington insiders being the nominee !
Individual mandates, bailouts, a guy who loves his House Bank and will fight for his personal entitlement to government funded limo and driver and will make laws to save us from global warming....
yep, thats a conservative... lol.
“...When he ran for the US Senate NPR advertised him as potentially the first African born US Senator. BTW...that story has been scrubbed from NPR’s archives....”
Interesting. I wonder if there’s anything in the “Wayback Machine” archieves...if that still exists.
Keep looking!! Please.
He loves big government, he just wants it to be more efficient.
...
Dang CORedneck you do understand you will considered a hater. right? lol.
There are FReepers who will support Obama if he put an R by his name.
Newt’s numbers are up for good reason. The hate squad thinks they are still significant. Which is why they get so nasty when he keeps on going and gaining.
They are taking credit for taking Perry down, but that was mostly Perry himself. Newt has done an excellent job of staying gaff free. I fully expect that trend to continue.
I could care less about gaffe’s. I care about what they believe, where they have been on the issues. Newt is a RINO insider.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.