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Posted on 05/19/2011 5:18:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Which GOP presidential candidate will benefit the most from Mike Huckabee’s decision not to run in 2012? Democrats (103 votes)
Tim Pawlenty: 26% Mitt Romney: 18% Michele Bachmann: 13% Mitch Daniels: 12% Rick Santorum: 7%
Also receiving votes: Newt Gingrich, 6%; “to be determined,” 4%; Jon Huntsman, 3%; Sarah Palin, 3%; “no one,” 3%; Ron Paul, 2%; Terry Branstad, 1%; “everyone,” 1%; Bachmann and Palin, 1%; Bachmann and Santorum, 1%.
Pawlenty
“The field of social conservatives with a realistic chance to get nominated is getting pretty small.”
“Huckabee’s withdrawal opens up Iowa for next-door neighbor Pawlenty. The only route to the nomination for Pawlenty is through Iowa.”
“I’ve long thought that Pawlenty is the blank slate—like Obama was in 2008, albeit without the charisma—upon which Republican primary voters can sketch the image of their nominee. Pawlenty is already moving to give Huckabee Christian right voters that opportunity.”
“He’s beginning to look like the legendary tortoise.”
Romney
“GOP may put ad on Craigslist for presidential candidates.”
“When Mitt Romney’s blinding $10 million day is leading headlines—$40 million this quarter? Not sure how anything else matters right now.”
“There aren’t that many options left for a GOP primary voter looking for a candidate who isn’t a complete nut job.”
Bachmann
“The Christian conservative coalition in Iowa would rally around her, the same way they did for Huckabee in 2008.”
“She’s the only other one who believes Fred Flintstone actually did have a pet dinosaur.”
Daniels
“It’s beginning to look like a draft movement, and that is always a good way to enter a race.”
“Romney’s Mormonism probably prevents him from winning much, if any, of the evangelical support.”
Santorum
“God told Mike Huckabee not to run. God will tell a lot of his supporters to vote for Rick.”
Which GOP presidential candidate will benefit the most from Mike Huckabee’s decision not to run in 2012? Republicans (104 votes)
Tim Pawlenty: 37% Mitt Romney: 15% Michele Bachmann: 13% Mitch Daniels: 8% Rick Santorum: 8%
Also receiving votes: Newt Gingrich, 5%; “to be determined,” 3%; Herman Cain, 2%; Ron Paul, 2%; “no one,” 2%; Huckabee, 1%; Jon Huntsman, 1%; Roy Moore, 1%; “all of them,” 1%; Daniels and Huntsman, 1%; Romney and Daniels, 1%; Romney, Pawlenty, and Bachmann, 1%.
Pawlenty
“He becomes the alternative to Romney.”
“Will benefit the most since he fills the faith niche most readily; Bachmann could also benefit, but Pawlenty will move quickly.”
“Takes away the biggest challenge in Iowa, [where] he must do well.”
“He really doesn’t have any political skills to speak of, but he’s the closest thing to a plausible candidate with social-conservative credentials.”
“The boring quotient of the current field just went up; Huck battling Mitt would’ve been highly entertaining.”
Romney
“The evangelical vote that was ‘stuck on Huck’ will now split among Bachmann, Pawlenty, and Santorum: Advantage Romney.”
“Getting rid of a high-profile rival only helps the front-runner.”
“He now has a chance to win Iowa, and Pawlenty’s hopes end if he loses there.”
Bachmann
“She is the real Sarah Palin and, with Huck out, the odds-on favorite to win Iowa. The GOP establishment will go into N.H. in full retreat.”
“Bachmann has the best chance to the space Mike Huckabee carved out: Populist economic rhetoric with a heavy dose of ‘I’m just like you.’ ”
Daniels
“Daniels seems only interested if his odds of winning the nomination are over 50 percent, and Huckebee being out probably puts him over that threshold.”
Santorum
“He will receive some votes, but his inability to raise money will not allow him to capitalize on it fully.”
How do you feel about Donald Trump’s decision not to seek the presidency in 2012? Democrats (101 votes)
Surprised: 0% Relieved: 4% Disappointed: 21% Never thought he would run to begin with: 73%
Also receiving votes: “disappointed but never thought he’d run,” 1%; “who cares,” 1%.
Relieved
“With the side show over, we can get down to discussing Republican budget attacks on seniors, children, and the infirm.”
Disappointed
“Was hankering for a Post headline: ‘Iowa to Trump: You’re Fired!’ ”
“Trump’s decision reduces the wacky-candidate factor by one, but the wacky-candidate decibel level by a hundred.”
“We have lost the reality-show version of presidential elections.”
Never thought he would run
“Always thought it was for May sweepstakes—it worked.”
“He wanted PR, not the responsibility of governing. To paraphrase what Marion Barry once said of a political rival, ‘The Donald don’t want to run nothin’ but his mouth.’ ”
“The guy’s a fraud, and any political reporter who actually ever believed he was going to run should request a reassignment to entertainment news.”
“Sooner or later, reality had to ‘trump’ reality TV.”
“Trump’s ‘run’ for the White House was a P.T. Barnum ‘There’s-a-sucker-born-every-minute’ moment for the national press corps.”
“Trump got a dose of hardball at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner and showed he is uniquely unqualified to be a public official.”
“Says something about the state of the Republican field and of media coverage that he was taken so seriously to begin with.”
“He would never put up with the scrutiny.”
How do you feel about Donald Trump’s decision not to seek the presidency in 2012? Republicans (103 votes)
Surprised: 3% Relieved: 14% Disappointed: 3% Never thought he would run to begin with: 81%
Surprised
“Though it’s always about him, it looked like all the signs were there.”
Relieved
“He detracted from the serious debate.”
“One less clown should make it seem less of a circus.”
Disappointed
“Now we only have Gingrich for entertainment value.”
Never thought he would run
“Every journalist and editor who produced stories treating him as a serious candidate for president should be ashamed.”
“This was always a publicity stunt by a master at self-promotion. That it dominated the media for a fortnight said more about the press’s celebrity obsession than anything else. It was also perhaps a commentary on how weak the Republican field seems to be right now.”
“This has never been anything but a ratings game for Trump.”
“He does this every four years. This year he caught lightning in a bottle because of the birther issue.”
“The only things missing from Trump’s whole act were the big red nose and the floppy shoes.”
“It was real, as he reached out to top operatives. But the financial disclosure would have exposed his shaky finances.”
“The guy is a businessman, and he can do math: Bottom line, he was completely unelectable.”
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Only surprise is that Mittens gets so many Huckster voters. That seems strange to me.
whats a political insider, and how do I get on the list
I’m not surprised that Palin isn’t getting a bounce from this group. I believe her support is only so high and is not high enough to get the nomination.
The idea though that Romney benefits is a joke. Hucks supporters (I was not one) viewed him as a solid Christian conservative, Romney is neither of those things.
The left will always tell you who they fear. Two glaring omissions, Palin and Cain. Or Cain and Palin. Either way would be one helluva ticket!
Myth Romney = 20%
Sarah Palin = 18%
After spending the last month-plus pretty much under the radar and out of the news, Sarah is in a statistical dead heat with Mr. "I raised $10 Million in one day" Romneycare.
Says it all. The poll in this article? Says BS.
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She's the only choice for the mass of America's Christian Right, and every media-concocted poll/article/pile of snot between now and election day that says otherwise is just more purely Satanic attack on the strongest conservative Christian leader to be raised up in our lifetimes..
You and your thought-controllers are in for quite a shock come election day.
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I’ll put you on my list to ping and gloat when the time comes but I doubt you’ll read it as you’ll probably run away and pout.
I will raise $2 million dollars for Gov. Sarah Palin myself, sitting here at my PC with a magic jack VOIP phone that I got at Wal-Mart on sale. This is not rocket science and you don’t have to know a bunch of country club & Wall Street swells or fatcats. I raised $40,000+ for Fred in the very short time he was in the race last time.
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Where is mention of Herman Cain?
Onyx...with all due respect to you Palin’s support for Israel, while laudatory, has nothing to do with what I perceive as a ceiling of support for her presidential run.
You don’t have the slightest idea what a “solid Christian conservative” even is.
Re #15:
Oh that was cutting. ow ow.
That's really what you got out of watching her draw 20,000-30,000 people in places like Lexington, Kentucky and Carson City, Nevada? You seem to forget that she out-drew many of Obama's bused-in, astroturf union crowds back in '08.
Stated plainly, her support is just a little thing called America. Watch and learn... if you can.
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Political Insiders don’t like Palin.
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