Posted on 12/08/2011 11:55:05 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
8 weeks to the Florida GOP Primary, Newt Gingrich resoundingly defeats Mitt Romney, with no other candidates worth discussing, according to a SurveyUSA poll of 500 likely Republican primary voters conducted for WFLA-TV in Tampa.
Gingrich gets 45%, Romney 23%, no one else is above 6%.
* Among those who describe themselves as moderate, Romney leads 3:2. * Among those who tell SurveyUSA they are "very conservative," Gingrich leads 3:1. * Among Evangelicals, Gingrich leads 5:2. * Among members of the Tea Party, Gingrich leads 5:2. * Among pro-life voters, Gingrich leads 5:2. * Gingrich leads by 20 or more points in every region of the state except Southeast Florida, where Romney runs 3 points ahead of Gingrich. * Gingrich's Favorability among likely Florida primary voters is now an extraordinary Plus 54. * Romney's Favorability among likely Florida primary voters is now Plus 30. * By contrast, and as a point of differentiation, Ron Paul's favorability is Minus 11, Rick Perry's favorability is Minus 9.
Anticipating that by the time the Florida primary is held, after Iowa, after New Hampshire, and after South Carolina, that some 2nd-tier candidates may have dropped out of the race, SurveyUSA asked likely primary voters who they would vote for if the only two remaining candidates, at the time of the Florida primary, were Gingrich and Romney.
In a two-man face-off, Gingrich defeats Romney 57% to 30%.
(Excerpt) Read more at surveyusa.com ...
For those with no souls, I spent the night gathering sea shells to put on my mother's grave as that is what I remember my mom loving, collecting sea shells.
As an added bonus, RuPaul is floundering down here in sunny Florida.
I’d like Bachmann to win the whole thing, but if that doesn’t happen, but I have no problem with Newt running away with it at all.
HOWEVER-—
Florida has its share of RINO rot, too.
Remember, despite the fact that we have only statewide elected Dim embarrassing the state (the utterly detestable Bill Nelson), we have had our share of mistakes. (Remember Charlie Crist ? No ? You didn’t miss anything.)
Florida is a very complicated place politically. North Florida is very Conservative while South Florida is very liberal. (Except for some parts of Miami-Dade, like Little Havanna, which always votes Republican without question
or hesitation.)
Wow, we’re really going to hand Obama four more years because we want to see Gingrich spout off in two debates?
Post of the day.
I keep asking, over the last month or so, 'what's happened to this place?'
Got tin-foil? So what do you think the real numbers are..? Romney ahead? Bachmann, Paul, etc?
Data like firearm sales, opposition to obamacare, amnesty, etc indicate that those supporting the same are not likely to reach double digits of voluntary support from conservative voters.
Further, reason and common sense indicate that Paul, Perry, Bachman and Sanatorium are likely to get more votes then the any of the 3 rinos absent manipulation tactics such as herding via the same methodology used to sell man made global warming: “experts,” “studies” selective “data,” “consensus” along with profit motive to lie, no independent outside verification allowed, etc.
This poll fabrication scam is no different then the AGW fraud, same methodology. The goal is to create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Only works if you believe who you want has no chance and you have to support the lesser of evils to prevent an even worse evil from getting elected.
Why do you assume we havent given them a look? Could it be people have given them a look and decided to support someone else?
I’m sure many people are on that boat, but I think there are a lot of people supporting candidates because the polling is telling them they are the frontrunners. I think it’s still very fluid right now & still too early for people to say that it’s over for the three lower tier conservative candidates.
Cain fell out pretty much overnight. I think the same thing could happen to Newt, he’s an extremely unpredictable candidate - makes me nervous. Newt is not a person that anyone can reliably depend on - he has a history of that.
“If you want a conservative plain and simple, go with Bachmann or Santorum, if you want to win, go with Romney..”
Well said. Despite O’s low polling numbers, despite the economy, despite his extremely weak leadership, there are just too many stupids and uninformds out there who WILL vote for him. This is not a slam dunk. Winning is the bottom line for me, and Gingrich can’t beat Obama. Way too polarizing: not necessarily on policy, but absolutely on persona. He’s abrasive, comes off as duplicitous, and is a total Washington insider. Not to mention that the media and the Jon Stewarts of the world will absolutely destroy him.
Find the youtubes of Newt speaking at the Iowa faith and family meeting recently (the main speech & the question and answer session).
The other candidate's speeches amounted to a combination of a personal story and promises to appoint conservative judges. Newt was the only one that presented a plan beyond that. As he put it, he looked at ways to reign in liberal/activist judges and "appointing conservatives" was like 4th of his list of things to do.
He proposed that judges could be removed with a simple majority vote in the house and senate. How? You eliminate the court, and the judge goes with it. This is not theory. Jefferson and Hamilton did this early in our history. Their actions were appealed to the Supreme Court and held up. The consitutionality of doing this is not even in question. The Legislative branch has the constitutional power to eliminate any federal court other than the Supreme Court itself.
He also emphasized that the Supreme Court is only supreme over the Judicial branch, not the other two branches. The Judicial branch has no more authority over the Legislative branch than the Executive branch has over the Judicial branch. He cited several examples from our history where the Executive or Legislative branches disagreed with the Judicial branch over a constitutionality question, and the Judicial branch lost when it came to how the constitution was to be interpreted.
A lot of our social problems can be traced back to a combination of the Judicial branch overstepping its constitutional bounds, and the other two branches cowering in fear instead of asserting their constitutional rights. Newt is the only one in the race now talking about reversing that trend.
I don't see how you get 70% of conservatives are supporting Mitt Romney from this poll.
BTW, in your list of Mitt Romney attributes, you forgot pro-choice and anti-Reagan. Two other qualites about Mitt Romney conservative detest.
Surely you're not saying that God can't save a sinner--any sinner--if He so chooses?
Repentance and changing how you live your life is at the core of Christianity.
You do remember John McCain winning the nomination, don’t you? Can’t be more of a rino than that....and guess what he won....
The problem with your analysis is that you assume everyone could settle on another candidate. That assumptions not true.
You consider Newt unacceptable; OK.
I would be OK with Perry or Santorum, but I would have serious reservations about Bachmann--just as serious as your reservations about Gingrich.
I'm sure there are some people that would have serious reservations about Perry or Santorum also that would make them uacceptable to them.
The point is, every candidate, even the "true conservative ones" is going to be unaccpetable to some voters.
this is so freaking depressing.
We could wind up with 8 years of....Newt.
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