Posted on 01/10/2012 5:34:36 AM PST by Happy Valley Dude
Mitt Romney is the only 2012 candidate whom a majority of Republicans including conservatives consider an acceptable GOP nominee for president, according to a Gallup Poll Tuesday.
In the new survey, 59 percent of all Republicans said Romney would be an acceptable presidential nominee for the Republican Party. Just 46 percent said the same for Newt Gingrich and 45 percent for Rick Santorum, who were trailed by Rick Perry at 37 percent, Ron Paul at 29 percent and Jon Huntsman at 21 percent.
Romney is also the only candidate whom the majority of both conservative and moderate/liberal Republicans say is an acceptable GOP nominee 59 percent of conservatives said the former Massachusetts governor was an acceptable Republican presidential candidate and 59 percent of moderate/liberal Republicans said the same.
Since the same question was asked in a Nov. 28-Dec. 1 poll, Romneys overall acceptability rose 5 percentage points, up to 59 percent from 54 percent. Rick Santorums acceptability saw a more significant surge, moving up from 27 percent to 45 percent. Meanwhile, Gingrichs acceptability as a presidential nominee fell among Republicans, from 62 percent last month to 46 percent in the new survey.
No other candidate except Romney enjoyed majority support among moderate Republicans. For Newt Gingrich, 51 percent of conservative Republicans said the former House speaker would be an acceptable nominee for president, but just 36 percent of moderate Republicans said the same.
Fifty-percent of conservative Republicans said Rick Santorum would make an acceptable GOP nominee, while 35 percent of moderate/liberal Republicans said the same. Rick Perry was considered an acceptable nominee by 41 percent of conservative Republicans and 29 percent of moderate Republicans.
Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman were the only candidates who were found acceptable by a greater percentage of moderate Republicans than of conservative ones.
The Gallup Poll was conducted Jan. 5-8 among 479 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percentage points.
© 2012 POLITICO LLC
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IF Romney wins, and that is a BIG if, and you vote for Barry the Kenyan Marxist or don’t vote which is the same as voting for him, then yes, I would say you will be blamed, but I have a feeling you’re fine with giving Barry Soetoro 4 more years.
I’m voting for Newt in the primary and anybody but the Islamic Marxist after that. Anybody is better than that idiot we have in there now and I’m hoping we have a President Gingrich, but I’m also fine with Perry, or Santorum. If we end up with Romney and he beats the Kenyan, so be it. Take back the Senate, increase seats in the house and 4 years later have a Palin or Perry challenge him.
You're in TX so I say NO. If the sweep is so vast that TX goes for Obama, your vote won't have made any difference.
Those in "swing" states the ones to blame along with the imbecilic early state voters foisting Romney on us all.
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“I am a conservative and I support Romney.”
I am a conservative and I support Obama.
Same difference.
Great post but the phrase is “all of a sudden” rather than “all the sudden.”
well thanks for that nap poll...
Time to face facts, enough "conservative" voters have swallowed Romney's snake oil for "his turn" at the nomination.
We should thank the suck up approach taken by Santorum, Bachmann, Cain, et al. throughout the primary season.
Romney is a vote of last resort only.
And, unless the conservatives, Santorum, Perry and Newt quickly coalese and boil down to a single conservative, so they can garner all of the conservative vote behind one candidate, we will be faced with Romney winning the nomination.
He takes a part of the conservatives, but a majority of the moderates and independents.
We simply have to see a single good conservative going up against him, then that person will ride that wave to the nomination.
But it better happen soon, no later, IMHO, then right after SC. Otherwise, if Romney ends up winning Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina (because of the split vote for conservatives) and then Florida for the same reasons...the momentum will be hard to stop.
So, Santorum, Perry, and Gingrich, get together after NH...or no later than after SC and make the hard decisions for the sake of the country. Which ever of you three has garnered the most vote and delegates at that point should be endorsed by the other two who then drop out and throw their support behind that person.
Othewrwise it will be Romney against Obama. I do believe Romney can win, and that he owuld be far better than Obama...but also far less than what we as conservatives want and need to post haste begin turning this nation around and back to its fundamental, moral and conservative roots.
The only poll I want to see is one that says there is a Republican ahead of 0bama in November.
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ME TOO. I hope that Republican is Newt, but anyone that beats the Kenyan Marxist is acceptable. I may not like them, but we can’t stand 4 more years of a devout Marxist that wants to be a dictator. He is lawless and is proving that more and more each day. GO NEWT!
This poll is pure garbage.
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Yes, it is. Nothing but propaganda. I ignore most of the polls right now, it’s way too early and they are trying to pick our candidate for us.
I'd rather eat the steak, but I'll take a balogna sandwich over a turd burger any day!
What the hell. Shady numbers and other countless problems with the poll aside, how does “acceptable” translate to “embrace”?
BOY oh boy do they ever want to shove Myth down our throats.
As for me and conservatives worthy of the title — FUMR!!!!!
Who are these mystery conservatives?
That’s BS. I haven’t accepted that Romney will be the nominee! If he wins SC and FL, then I might accept that he is going to be the nominee but it’s way to early! Anything can happen. I think you hope everyone accepts him as the nominee. Ugh!
I have had enough of it. I will not pull the lever for Romeny. I will however work hard for house-critters to try and get more TEA Party elected.
I simply cannot pin my hopes on this Government being "fixed" when all we are offered is socialism and socialism-lite. It will be up to the House of Representatives to help fix the mess this country is in fiscally not to mention regulatory.
The GOP can pound sand.
Exactly.
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