Posted on 12/14/2011 5:34:57 AM PST by LBG11
Texas Rep. Ron Paul has surged to second place in a new Iowa poll of likely Republican caucus goers, just one percent behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the current front-runner.
Paul has consistently placed in the top tier of Republican presidential candidates in recent Iowa polls. With Iowans heading to vote in only three weeks, Gingrich holds a razor-thin 22–21 lead.
The poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling, found weakening support for Gingrich among self-identified tea partiers, and a dramatic rise in Paul’s favorability rating.
“There are a lot of parallels between Paul’s strength in Iowa and Barack Obama’s in 2008 — he’s doing well with new voters, young voters, and non-Republican voters,” said PPP in an explanation of its poll’s findings.
Paul has taken aim at Gingrich with an ad alleging “serial hypocrisy” for changing his positions on a variety of issues, including health care and global warming. The ad also targeted him for accepting millions from Freddie Mac, and for calling a budget proposal from Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan “right-wing social engineering.”
Gingrich’s favorability rating has declined 19 points among Iowans since last week.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney placed third in the poll, at 16 percent. He was followed by Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann at 11 percent, Texas Gov. Rick Perry at 9 percent, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum at 8 percent and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman at 5 percent.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/13/in-iowa-paul-closes-to-within-one-point-of-front-runner-gingrich/#ixzz1gW0NUhrI
Great news. Amnesty-Newt is collapsing. Guess those “radical rightwing social engineers” were not that loyal supporters, no matter how much ethanol pandering is used in IA.
Amnesty can still be stopped. Bachmann is at 11%. Given the nature of Iowa caucus, this is easily within striking distance.
It is a choice between a conservative or radical Global Warming Amnesty progressive.
Every four years thousands of Iowans are absorbed by Ron Paul pod people...
...nothing new here the nut is still not going anywhere.
At this point, with Rick Santorum perpetually in single-digit limbo and Herman Cain out of the running, I honestly don’t care who wins as long as it isn’t Romney.
If Beck, Savage, or any of the other backstabbers think I’ll ever hold my nose and vote for Slick Willard, they’re mistaken. A choice between Socialist R and Socialist D is one not worth making.
This poll is BS. Ron Paul is a certified lunatic. I don’t believe that Iowans are that stupid.
Paul has a vocal following of lunatics.
This is the same 10% of America that still thinks Elvis is alive.
I hope not.
It’s scary that he could potentially sneak through, if there was a three way split that happens in a fluke.
I think that's a better summation.
If Ron Paul wins Iowa it’s the end of Iowa as the first in the nation. If last year’s Huckabee choice is followed by Ron Paul I think all candidates will avoide Iowa like the plague. No one will want to win there.
The caucus system in Iowa allows the votes to be scalped like tickets to the Super Bowl.
If anything,the Paul pod people are making the state more and more irrelevant.
Next time the candidates might as well go straight to New Hampshire.
and the Dims giggle
It’s called an outlier, and an obvious one at that. No need for anyone to panic.
I hope you’re not suggesting that Ron Paul is sane . . . it only leads to questions of your own sanity. Paul is dangerously nuts. He would be a greater threat to our national security than Obama.
My foot.
Yes, Paul is nuts. That is yet another similarity with the big O.
Note well: He does well with the disinterested, immature, and anarchists.
PPP poll commissioned by Politico and SEIU. Yawn.
And we all know how informed those voters were...
Ron Paul’s an idiot. His followers are three notches lower on the scale.
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