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
I’ve said this before on another thread:
I am NOT voting for Romney!!
Will I be blamed if Obama wins in November?
Conservatives may well not have been a majority in this poll. The sample size was also so small as to contain a significant margin of error.
Easy. The "registered republicans" contacted by Gallup are themselves the source of the label "conservative" as are the "republican leaning independents". Any of them can claim it.
The idea that the paltry number (479) of respondents of "republicans and republican leaning independents" is a valid poll is ridiculous.
Garbage .... Mitt will never be "embraced" by Conservatives.
Preposterous. Conservatives don’t embrace anyone; they don’t even talk. They just use pictures and cartoons to communicate. ;-)
This is why smart people ignore all Free Public polls - they are tools to manipulate by using the power of conformity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQI8pZJiMe0
Its complete BS that “conservatives” are supporting Romney.
But if you follow the perception of the crowd so as to conform....
http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2010/07/21/gallup-caught-lying-about-the-generic-ballot-trend/
In a democracy, you don’t get the government you want. You get the government you deserve. I dumped tv in 1997, but am occasionally exposed to it. I’m appalled at what our electorate subjects it to on a daily basis. It is easy to see why we are where we are.
And why we are doomed, as much as ancient Rome was.
The only poll I want to see is one that says there is a Republican ahead of 0bama in November.
I hear you and I agree.
Need to use something... anything... semaphores? morse code? to choose the not-Rotney.
This poll is valid, as it goes, given that it uses conservative types... you know, like the Diane Sawyers and Stepphie types. In other words: its useless.
This poll is pure garbage.
How in the world do they DEFINE conservative?
When ask a multiple choice question “Which best defines Conseervatism to you?” 59% of the “conservatives” who found Romney acceptable picked:
any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
Define: acceptable.
Once upon a time, logical discussion worked - and then it got nasty.
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.
Nope, I'm not giving a poll like this too much credence.
You are sounding like a Romney supporter. Is that right?
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