Posted on 12/17/2011 3:10:31 PM PST by Steelfish
NBC/WSJ poll: Romney Struggles With Primary Voters, Gingrich With General Electorate
By Mark Murray, Deputy Political Director, NBC News
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.
Romney faces a challenge with the Republican primary electorate, trailing Gingrich nationally by 17 percentage points as nearly two-thirds of Republicans view him as either liberal or moderate.
Gingrich, meanwhile, faces a challenge with the general electorate, as half of all voters say they wouldn’t vote for him in November, and as he trails President Barack Obama by more than 10 percentage points in a hypothetical contest -- compared with Romney’s two-point deficit versus the Democratic incumbent.
“Romney has not caught on [with Republican voters],” says Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. “And Gingrich is so deeply flawed.”
“I think the Republican Party for the next four months is on the razor’s edge,” Hart adds. “Here is a year where they have a superlative opportunity to capture the White House. The question is whether they will self-destruct.”
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Ask again after the primary is finish for the real number.
Really, I think most people, including many democrats I know, are horrified at the thought of a second obama term.
The winner of the GOP primary is the next president. It may be close, but it is inevitable.
Thought it would be much worse. Guess the WSJ wanted to keep it believable since 53% say the One Termer shouldn’t be re-elected.
Merry Christmas
I would love to listen to Newt in person. And I am a female. Not real concerned about his weight, his hair or his muscles - except the muscles between his ears.
It is December 2011. It is eight and a half months until the convention. It is ten and a half months to the election.
What do you imagine the purpose of the general election campaign to be?
Do you believe polls taken in December 1979 indicated that Ronald Reagan would be elected in a landslide?
As a matter of fact, polls taken in August 1980 indicated that he had no chance at all.
NOBODY on the political spectrum today...democrat/republican...will ever draw crowds like Palin did or would do. Nobody! Hands down! Period!
NOBODY on the political spectrum today...democrat/republican...will ever draw crowds like Palin did or would do. Nobody! Hands down! Period!
Sorry for the double post. I saw Newt once in our office building (a military command in SE VA.) I knew the day he came what the schedule would be and decided that I would be in/around/near the corridor he would be taking on the way to the presentation he was making. I had purposed in my heart that if the opportunity arose, I would introduce myself and shake his hand. Indeed, I was in the hallway he came through with the protocol officer and a couple of others. He walked right past me...I didn’t have the courage to step up and do what I had endeavored to do previously. Anyway...opportunity lost.
Newt and his wife still come across “optically” as GOPEstablishment, Beltway Insider - which I still can't quite overcome myself.
Newt's Humpty Dumpty image, his inability to relate to the middle and lower income class, I think, is a huge problem.
Right now I'm not convinced he can beat Obama. Great Debater and Historian - but motivating people and getting them enthused about his candidacy just isn't there. Herman Cain had that Reagan quality that got me motivated, enthused, ready to get on the train and get out the vote.
I'm just not there with Newt. But I will be resigned to vote for anyone but Obama.
What a sad state of affairs.
Really, would pissant have posted a "Miss Me Yet?" image of Palin, AND another one of her at one of her biggest rallies in 2008?
You know better than that...
Without the independents swinging to our side we lose......
The independents have already abandoned the Bamster. He’s a goner. That’s not bravado, that’s not wishful thinking, that’s scientific fact. Poll after poll show Obama’s re-elect mushy and getting mushier. Doesn’t mean we need to rock back and wait for November 2012 to pop up. We keep at it until then by talking to our friends and families to assert the truth about Barack H. Obama and the disaster he has presided over.
Oops... you’re are correct... I did missed those....you are definitely not pissant, he hated Palin’s guts.
GO NEWT GO........
so the indies, who are leaving Obama, will just magically come back to him if Newt is the GOP nominee????
Not worried about it. Gingrich will make the case for conservatism, win or lose. For us, even if Newt loses, we’ll still make progress because our message will have been articulated well before a national audience. Romney will be McCain redux—he’ll run left and stay there if elected. We can’t have that anymore.
Things can change in a hurry.
Remember how our Tea Party threw its weight behind Sharon Angle and the easily beatable Reid was re-elected? Do you want to risk a repeat of Obama and have a 2-term Obama take our nation to a point of no return just so that a message can be articulated? I hope not.
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