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, Romney’s overall acceptability rose 5 percentage points, up to 59 percent from 54 percent. Rick Santorum’s acceptability saw a more significant surge, moving up from 27 percent to 45 percent. Meanwhile, Gingrich’s 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
because team red’s socialism is better than team blue’s socialism...
it’s no wonder this country is in the state it is in...
I call BS.
The ranking of the conservatives in the race is this:
Santorum
Newt
Perry
Huntsman
Paul
romney
Now how can the last ranked person be supported by conservatives?
BOHICA = Barack Obama, Here It Comes Again
Mitt Romney wins much coveted Jimmy Carter endorsement
Gore Praises Romney's 'Climate Protection Plan'
Carville(D):
"It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing.
Romney is an ascendant guy."
Sen. John Kerry (D) to Don Imus on RomneyCARE:
"I like this health care bill".
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) on RomneyCARE:
"To come up with a bipartisan plan in this polarized environment is commendable."
That is thier ranking according to whom?
Why do I continually feel that the MSM (with the assistance of establishment Republicans) is trying to stampede us into a paticular nominee?
Bob Dole
John McCain
Mitt Romney (John McCain’s choice)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2830945/posts
Romney has bought, and paid for the GOP nomination.
It’s Politico....nothing more than yet another attempt to herd everyone to their candidate of choice, Willard McRomney.
The nomination of Mitt Romney for president will begin the final death throes of the formerly grand old party.
To my Republican friends: Don’t ever say I didn’t warn you.
I’ve said for years that the fault is within our little Republican primary voters, most of whom are vastly uninformed, but they are good at business.
Yes another Gallup poll. They called 150 telephones in Newark, New Jersey and another 150 in New York City so they could be sure to get a fair sampling of registered “conservatives” into the mix. I especially like the part where it says liberal Republicans and conservatives alike agree on Romney. It must have been McCain’s and Bush Sr.’s endorsements that did the trick.
Romney makes Obama's liberalism MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's ineligibility MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's IAG issues MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's Sharia issues MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's 911 Victory Mosque MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's RomneyMarriage/Gay Marriage issue MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's bad governmental history MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's AGW issue MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's liberal judge issue MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's ineptitude MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney has a history of the BIG DIG and its coverup.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney has a history of destroying the Mass. Constitution which makes Obama’s overturning the US Constitution MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney makes Obama's lying as an issue MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney has a history of backstabbing the GOP, itself, and is hated widely.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney has a history of narcissism which make Obama’s MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
Romney has a history of destroying evidence while Governor, which makes Obama’s destruction of evidence also MOOT.
THAT is why the DNC wants him.
The Venus de Milo has a better shot of embracing Romney than I do.
The Leftistsphere hadda do sumpthin’, ‘cause Jim took a Conservative straw poll, and the last person the Left wants to run against Obama won by a landslide.
Correction: Capitalist Homos Tightly Embrace Blow-dried Romney
Agreed. This has been a disgraceful primary season where the voters have been thrown under the wheel of the DC RNC establishment bus. The insiders have coordinated to thrash and trash every alternative to Romney, using the same tactics we all decried in 2008 to boost Obama.
You can bet your last dollar I am voting GOP in this election regardless, because Obama absolutely must go, but my relations with the GOP is near over. Financial and otherwise.
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