Posted on 04/05/2007 8:14:01 AM PDT by Unmarked Package
Latest New Hampshire telephone poll shows Romney's support nearly doubles to 25% to tie McCain; Giuliani trails at 19%
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has rocketed to the top of the field of contenders for the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary crown, running dead even with Arizona Sen. John McCain at 25% each, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows. With Romneys ascension, the GOP presidential race looks just like the Democratic contest a threeway battle!
While McCain has held mostly steady at the top of the Republican field in New Hampshire, losing just one point since January, Romney has made the big move up from 13% two months ago. Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York who is the toast of Republican primary voters nationally, finds himself in third place in the Granite State at 19% support, falling slightly from 20% in January to 19% this week.
Fred Thompson, the actor and former senator from Tennessee won 6% support in this latest survey of 502 likely New Hampshire Republican primary voters, which was conducted April 2-3, 2007, and contains a margin of error of +/- 4.5 percentage points.
Pollster John Zogby: Score this as a big week for Mitt Romney. These poll numbers, together with the small increase in Iowa and a huge fundraising effort, puts him into the top tier and makes him a major player in the race for the GOP nomination. John McCains support stays steady and makes him a contender and gives him a boost in an otherwise lackluster week. Move over, Rudy. Youve got a real race on your hands!
Romney has a slight edge over McCain among men 27% support Romney while 25% favor McCain. Giuliani gets 19% support among men. McCain wins support from 25% of women, followed by Romney (23%) and Giuliani (18%).
McCain is the favored candidate among younger respondents nearly half (48%) of those 18-29 said they would vote for the former war heroturned senator. There is also strong support for Romney among this age group, as 37% said they would support the former Massachusetts governor. Giuliani gets the most support from those age 30 to 49 at (28%) and leads the field over all other candidates among this age group.
Asked about the strength of support for their candidate, McCain shows a slight edge over the other top candidates 88% of McCain supporters said their backing was strong, compared to 86% of Romney supporters and 85% of those supporting Giuliani.
Republicans in New Hampshire 2007 |
Apr. 3 |
Jan. 18 |
|
|
|
Romney |
25% |
13% |
McCain |
25% |
26% |
Giuliani |
19% |
20% |
Hagel |
1% |
3% |
Huckabee |
1% |
1% |
Hunter |
1% |
1% |
Paul |
2% |
1% |
Brownback |
<1% |
<1% |
Tancredo |
1% |
3% |
Fred Thompson |
6% |
-- |
Tommy Thompson |
<1% |
-- |
Not sure |
17% |
15% |
More than half of respondents (54%) said they were more likely to vote for a candidate who is generally more conservative, while 37% said they would favor a more moderate candidate. Romney is the top choice of those who identify themselves as conservative and very conservative.
The vast majority respondents (85%) said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who stands up for what they believe in, regardless if they can win the general election. Younger respondents (age 18 to 29) were more likely than older respondents to favor a candidate who will stand by his or her beliefs 96% in this age group feel this way, compared to 79% of those age 65 and older. Women (89%) are also more likely than men (82%) to say they would vote for the candidate who puts their beliefs first. Overall, 11% said they would rather have a candidate who can win.
I don’t trust any polls, especially this far out.
I am on 56k dial up... (not DSL)
Maybe my computers are a lot better than most... I have lots of RAM...
“Snake Pliskin”
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How do you become a "former war hero?" I did not realize there is an expiration date on such things.
Is Damascus left or right.
He was a Bishop, he was also a Stake President (higher than Bishop)
He was also a Governor, and showed none of the usurping qualities that you label him with.
Please don’t start it up again.
You are truly dizziing in your self absorbed portrayal of our beliefs.
You get the last word.
I would hardly call my exchange with FastCoyote a debate. What I would call it is a exposure of his rhetoric to be what it is, namely lies, falsehoods and deception.
Thanks for you concern, but for you to recommend we stay silent when such rubbage is thrown in the face of ever one on a political thread just doesn't cut it, sorry. I'd prefer to stay silent on the matter as well, but I will in moderation continue to defend when defamed. One cannot defend such filth without refuting scripturally
Cheers
Well put, I have no desire to debate Mormonism, that's not why I joined FR. I find myself having to do it from time to time because of ad nauseum attacks.... I'm sure much to the chagrin of other FReepers.
This is a political venue and outlet. I'd like to keep it that way .
Give fair warning. Then hit Abuse and flag Religion Moderator if they don’t stop.
I don’t want to be stuck reading debates over Mormon doctrine and beliefs for the next ten months. If Romney’s candidacy is a referendum on Mormon theology, he’ll lose. But that isn’t the campaign he’s running. So just follow his example. Let him be an ordinary presidential candidate, not some super-Mormon which you know he isn’t anyway.
Let’s keep the Front Page, the Editorial, and the Extended oriented toward news and editorials and opinion pieces. That is their purpose. Put the theology debates, the blogs and the vanities in the Backroom where they belong.
Oh, and if I hit abuse every time this was done, the mods would get tired of it and I’d probably get revoked from FR due to obsessive “abuse” hitting.
I don’t think that is the answer either.
Never saw the movie but sounds like a great idea.
I really don’t see whay you are so worried about. You’ve spent more time and bandwisth arguing with Coyote that I have, plus, telling me what I can and can’t post to defned my faith is conterproductive to what FR should be about. If you find the abuse button an effective way deal with the anti mormons, then I say yah, use it please. I’ve done it in that past, but don’t want to make it a habit.
Cheers
“I’m not suggesting you should not be allowed to discuss anything about Mormonism. But not on the ‘front page’ of our ‘newspaper’. It belongs in the ‘letters to the editor’, at best. And that’s the Smoky Backroom.”
Clever, censorship by declaring some speech to not be germane. So whether Romney believes himself a budding God or not is not germane.
Let’s see, Harry Reid has demonstrated a decided tendency to hold himself morally superior to others - in some part because of Mormon theological hubris. But it is off limits to ask whether Romney is susceptible to similar delusions.
And it is off limits to ask whether admittedly rather strange beliefs (like that American Indians are the offspring of a lost tribe of Jews who came here in 600 BC) might not subject a future president to ridicule on the world stage.
I would think you’d want Romney to address these questions now rather than when he is in the middle of the war in the middle east.
“his sort of attack on Mormonism on a political thread, especially during a fundraiser? Why would Mormons want to donate to FR if they see this?”
Have you considered the harm you have caused by calling for censorship? Especially censorship of verifiable facts? Just because the fact that Joseph Smith was a crystal gazing occultist obsessed with Masonic rights and misinterpreting hieroglyphics while marrying 40 women is disturbing to your candidate, makes those things no less true.
If you can’t stand having these things see the light of day, that’s your problem.
In Nevada we just elected Gibbons as governor, he has been accused of molesting a cocktail waitress in a garage, and now the Wall Street Journal is playing a tap dance on his forehead over trips to Turkey with a no bid defense contractor who also employed his wife. I did vote for him, and have helped other Mormon candidates in the past.
Gibbons has been given a pass on many issues because he is considered a “clean Mormon”, and no doubt got many votes that way, displacing a truly decent guy named Bob Beers in the primary. While some of the charges against Gibbons are typically trumped up, some are due to the cognitive disconnect that occurs in many Mormons between a rigid theology with strange beliefs and a clash with the real world.
If those issues are not germane in the discussion of who should be president, I don’t know what issues are germane.
“I would hardly call my exchange with FastCoyote a debate. What I would call it is a exposure of his rhetoric to be what it is, namely lies, falsehoods and deception.”
Okay, let’s take a look at what you said:
[The Church that Joseph Smith restored is the fullness of the Gospel, all things have been restored by Jesus Christ. In fact, not only did Joseph claim that he saw God the Father and Jesus Christ, but also John the Baptist, Peter, James, John, Moses, Elijah (mentioned above), and others. The Church is about the restitution of all things, with all the priesthood keys that God has ever bestowed upon man, being given to man again.]
So, you have exposed me as a complete liar by proposing that Joseph Smith spoke with more saints and Gods than Jesus himself.
Oh yeah, that’s gonna fly the same day pigs do. Thank the Gods Romney believes the same.
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