Posted on 12/13/2011 4:43:36 PM PST by Jim Robinson
WASHINGTON - Exactly three weeks until the first Republican presidential nominating contest in Iowa, front-runners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have two different challenges, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Gingrich leads the GOP pack According to the poll, Gingrich, the former House speaker, is the first choice of 40 percent of GOP primary voters -- the highest percentage any Republican presidential candidate has received in the party horserace so far.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is the first choice of 23 percent of Republicans. Hes followed by Texas Rep. Ron Paul at 9 percent, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann at 8 percent, Texas Gov. Rick Perry at 6 percent, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman at 5 percent, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum at 3 percent.
Reduced to a three-person GOP race, Gingrich gets 53 percent, Romney gets 31 percent and Paul gets 13 percent. And in a two-way Republican contest, Gingrich leads Romney by 23 points, 59 percent to 36 percent.
Whats helping Gingrich and hurting Romney? Look no further than ideology.
Fifty-seven percent of Republican primary voters view Gingrich as a conservative, 28 percent see him as a moderate and 10 percent believe hes liberal.
By comparison, 53 percent of them view Romney as a moderate, 29 percent see him as a conservative and 11 percent believe hes a liberal.
Romneys problem has always been ideology, Hart says.
(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...
Backstabber Moot Romney is an ineligible [have we not
had enough damn foreigners and ineligibles running America]
who is a dog abuser/RomneyCARE enforcer
WHO CANNOT WIN.
Hence, he is the beloved dream of the MSM.
NO ROMNEY. If he is on the ticket, the GOP is finished.
I feel exactly the same way. Since I live in PA, it'll be an interesting and hotly contested election.
Since Murdoch son took over WSJ it has shifted far left .
This JV poll is a massive outlier and run by NBC the National Barack Channell.
NBC vice presidents had fundraiser for the Marxist !
Even lefty Gallup polling has Newt ahead .
Well, hope he likes one way embraces. The tea party won’t embrace him back. RomneyCare begat ObamaCare.
um... did you read the poll... it has Ginngrich at 40%...
.with new NBC and Pew polls added chronologically ...Weighted 4-Poll Rolling Averages of the latest |
I have my reservations about Gingrich in the electability department (how often has any house speaker gotten elected president vs how often has a house speaker been forced to resign?), but there should be no doubt the press is going to see an intractable dilemma for Republicans no matter who they nominate.
People love the media getting their heads handed to them by Newt Gingrich. Others even started copying his style and it’s becoming dangerous to have guest on a show now.
Newt relayed that he’d like to have John Bolton on his team as Sec Def or Sec State. That tells me where Newt stands on foreign policy.
I’m still listening and following but I have to admit I love the way he talked about the Palistinians. I’ve been waiting years for a leader to say that.
People love the media getting their heads handed to them by Newt Gingrich. Others even started copying his style and it’s becoming dangerous to have guest on a show now.
Newt relayed that he’d like to have John Bolton on his team as Sec Def or Sec State. That tells me where Newt stands on foreign policy.
I’m still listening and following but I have to admit I love the way he talked about the Palistinians. I’ve been waiting years for a leader to say that.
Ah, you disregard the fact that all of this is new to most folks today! They will roll this stuff out like it is a new coming of the antichrist!
I’m betting the economy will tank more over the next ten months, Newt will clean Zero’s clock in the debates, and he’ll run away with the general.
NBC is the Obama reelection PR firm .
These Obama nutters will lie , steal or cheat for there Marxist.
As Rush said today the left wing media has been preparing to have Obama to run against Mittens for the last year.
Why do think the Obama media create this occupy/ class warfare PR scam . It was created to wipe out Mittens in the general .
NBC and WSJ will do anything including
Create push polls for Mittens .
Wake up.
>> This JV poll is a massive outlier and run by NBC the National Barack Channell. The NBC poll is not an outlier. Note the TWO polls in particular where Gingrich is the LOWEST at 33%, (PEW and GALLUP), those polls also have the HIGHEST UNDECIDED. Poll Date Sample Gingr. Romney (Undecided/Other) Poll Position 12/11 - 12/11 582 LRV 39.3 23.3 10.3 NBC News/WallSJ 12/07 - 12/11 271 RV 40 23 6 Pew Research 12/07 - 12/11 504 RV 33 21 22 GallupTrack6-10 12/06 - 12/10 1200 RRIgop 33 23 20 FOX News 12/05 - 12/07 356 RV 36 23 10 RasmussenRepts 11/30 - 11/30 1000 LV 38 17 14The polls that don't intimidate the participants as much get a higher response, and higher Gingrich numbers. |
Im still listening and following but I have to admit I love the way he talked about the Palistinians. Ive been waiting years for a leader to say that.
While newt was saying that, my hand rose up with an invisible ink voting stylus in it, and I began to press down and ink my invisible ballot next to “Newton Ralph Gingrich III (R)”
Screw the Obama vs Romney and Obama vs Newt polls. They mean nothing right now. Once the country knows who the Republican candidate is, the election will be about one thing only: Barack “Barry” Hussien Obama-Dunham-Soetero-Obama.
1)19% of those polled didn't vote in the last election.
2)Obama beat McCain by 7 points but the voters on theis poll have it at a 10 point difference.
Republicans are under represented and it's not a poll of likely voters.
Yes Voted 81
Voted for Barack Obama / 42
Voted for John McCain /32
Voted for someone else/ 5
Not sure / 2
No, Did Not Vote / 19
Strong Democrat / 19
Not very strong Democrat / 11
Independent/lean Democrat / 14
Strictly Independent / 16
Independent/lean Republican / 13
Not very strong Republican /10
Strong Republican /14 Other (VOL) /2
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