[volunbeer]

My sincere question.... How does Romney poll so high? Seriously?

I have plenty of friends in real life, online, and I enjoy listening to what people talk about during lunch with co-workers. I have never heard anyone talking about Romney or exhibit any enthusiasm for him at all.

Is he a media creation or is it a Northeast thing?

[Lazlo in PA]

I am with you. There is no motivation to support Myth by anyone I know. Romneycare is the biggest reason people give me, and some are very moderate Repubs. This is a garbage poll. Mittens is fading in all other polls. This is an unknown polling company solicited by the Libertarians at Reason Mag.

This Reason-Rupe poll surveyed a random, national sample of 1,200 adults by telephone (790 on landlines, 410 on cell phones) over August 9-18, 2011. The overall results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The GOP presidential primary poll question surveyed 419 adults who self-identified as Republican and "lean-Republican"; that specific question has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Real Clear Politics doesn't even recognize it for it's averages. RCP has Perry crushing Romney in the last three polls they use for their rolling averages.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/republican_presidential_nomination-1452.html

[TribalPrincess2U]

Personally I think he’s the 0media’s darling pick for us.
They really want him. I guess they think 0 can beat him.

[GlockLady]

I’m baffled too. However, Tokyo Rove explained it to Greta the other night - something about lots of $ and a very large, well-organized campaign organization.

[curth]

His supporters somehow manage to get their phone numbers listed with the pollsters.

[Darth Reardon]

My sincere question.... How does Romney poll so high?

In the recent IA debate, his answers were near the top of the field, and his presentation was top notch. He looked and sounded like the conservative front runner.

Unless, of course, you knew you can trust his campaign promises about as much as you'd trust McCain's.

[icanhasbailout]

I’ve been wondering the same thing since 2007.

Palin and Paul have no lack of fervent faithful.

Perry and Bachmann seem to get many people who think they represent the best overall value in a candidate.

But who in the world are Romney voters? There aren’t anywhere near enough Mormons on the planet, and the vast majority of people liberal enough would not be voting in the GOP primary other than Operation Chaos style. How many Republicans for Universal Health Care can there be?

I had many of the same questions as to who McCain primary voters were as well. Never met one of those either.