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
What leads you to label Romney most electable?
I keep hearing that, but I do not see the logic.
HAH!!! Me too.
Should Romney win the nomination, I will change my registration from R to I.
I would still vote against Obama (which means, I guess, for Romney) but it will be the first election I will be voting as an outsider...neither one will be my candidate. Odd feeling.
I am amazed.
How can you listen to their campaigns for the past months and conclude the most noteworthy takeaway was 'Newt's baggage?'
Without knowing the polling methodology, you're guessing as to validity of sample size...statistics and polling are not equivalent.
You also fail to address the second part of the statement...that since they do not state that these are likely voters, the poll is not predictive of actual results...that these are even registered voters, much less likely voters. It's a scam the LSM pulls every four years.
Really? The first vote is today.
Of course, if you're talking about that poll, that wasn't a poll of voters.
That’s odd because I don’t know a single conservative, or even a moderate that even thinks about voting for Romney. The only people that say they like him are registered Democrats.
I see and talk to a lot of people on a daily basis.
Oh yes. Should Romney get the nomination I will change my voter registration to 'I'.
I have had enough of it. I will not pull the lever for Romeny...
I will... but he won't be 'my' candidate, the GOP won't be 'my' party.
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.
Yes, I agree that's where our focus need be.
The GOP can pound sand...
Yes indeed.
I think you are wishing that were the case, wishing that we were conditioned for defeat. I can't stand Romney, and absolutely do not "accept" that he'll be the nominee.
Really? Then why isn’t he getting 59% of the vote!
The choices are:
Obama with an antagonistic, resistant Republican congress.
Romney with a compliant, go along with the party leader, Republican congress.
Which is better?
PoLEFTico strikes again.
“Why do I continually feel that the MSM (with the assistance of establishment Republicans) is trying to stampede us into a particular nominee? Bob Dole John McCain Mitt Romney (John McCains choice)”
Because you’re right.
I have many family and friends who will NEVER cast a vote for Romney. I have a very politically conservative family. During our big New Year's eve party all agreed we could never vote for Romney.
Anyone who cherishes our beloved Constitution should NEVER vote for the vile and destructive Mitt.
People need to remember that Mitt was the force behind ALL the vicious attacks on Conservatives. Conservatives should never reward the evil Mitt for such betrayal. Mitt lusts for power for power's sake.
I’m Pis...d at Rush. He’s ripping our conservatives and pimping Romney. Claiming it’s wrong to attack Romney for being a “capitalist”. Rush has jumped the shark on this one.
I don’t see how this poll is necessarily wrong. Outside of rabid rightwingism (us Freepers, et al), the rest of Conservativism is probably resigned to the idea that Romney will be the nominee. They find him preferable to Obama. Whats the surprise.
You’re not the only one. I’ve been sitting here with my jaw on the floor listening to him today. I’m stunned, actually.
The whole point is that Romney uses Bain to prop himself up as a genius businessman, but Bain failed...Romney is a failed businessman trying to convince people he’s the man for the job to “fix the economy.” It’s not about capitalism, geesh!
And I have noticed that more and more people here are beginning to accept that Romney is going to be the nominee.Yes, and those same people vow in comment after comment to neither vote nor support Romney even if he is the nominee.
It was Politico which used the term "embrace," not Gallup.
Answering that someone/something is acceptable is a far cry from embracing it.
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