Posted on 12/29/2011 7:16:12 AM PST by RobinMasters
Mitt Romney has now jumped to his biggest lead ever over President Obama in a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup. It’s also the biggest lead a named Republican candidate has held over the incumbent in Rasmussen Reports surveying to date.
The latest national telephone survey finds that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters favor the former Massachusetts governor, while 39% prefer the president. Ten percent (10%) like some other candidate in the race, and six percent (6%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
A week ago, Romney trailed Obama 44% to 41%. The week before that, he held a slight 43% to 42% edge over the president. The two candidates have been essentially tied in regular surveys since January, but Romney remains the only GOP hopeful to lead Obama in more than one survey. Despite Romney’s current six-point lead, his latest level of support is in line with the 38% to 45% he has earned in matchups with the president this year. However, Obama’s 39% is a new low: Prior to this survey, his support has ranged from 40% to 46% in matchups with Romney.
A generic Republican candidate holds a narrow lead over the president again this week as has been the case all but three times in weekly tracking since late May. Obama leads all the other named GOP candidates by as little as seven and as much as 15 percentage points. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Governor Rick Perry and businessman Herman Cain have all surged ahead of the president at one point but did not maintain those leads.
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NO I won’t boycott Drudge and I don’t trust you at all. You have been here on FR for a little over 2 weeks. I don’t trust you at all. Trust is earned over time.
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And why not?
It wouldn't really matter who won the election, Barry or Myth. Both would tax away the winnings, anyway.
Romney 45 Obama 39... MSM and liberals everywhere win either way. We lose either way.
Newt will annihilate Zero in all 3 debates. It will be a work of Art.
Newt is his own handler whereas Zero’s handlers are Valerie Jarret & David Axelrod & of course his tele-prompter
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I agree and that is who I am supporting as long as he is running. He will destroy the Marxist Kenyan in debates and he’s not afraid to attack him. Romney? What a joke, when O’Reilly asked him if Barry Soetoro was a socialist he looked like he was going to cry then made some lame a$$ excuse that he doesn’t want to call names. He will be just like McCain, a total chicken sh*t. Remember this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrnRU3ocIH4
McCain was Obongo’s best campaigner.
Is this straight from the RNC or did you modify the message some? I, like a lot of conservatives, fell for that line in 2008. Never again. I will never again vote for some moderate, faux-conservative phony.
What makes Myth such a sure thing? He botched the Senate race against Ted (and really let his anti-Reagan and anti-conservative spots show). He did win the governor's race but was so unpopular that he knew that he had no chance at re-election. Sure, Romney's got a lot of money but how did that help him in 2008? Romney can't buy popularity. The more people see of Mitt Romney, the less they like him. His insincerity comes through with time.
Because Romney can't really distinguish himself from Obama on policies, a race between the two is very likely to focus on jobs and likability. By the time of the GE, the MSM will have painted Romney and his buddies at Bain Capital as the biggest job destroyers in the history of our economy. For some reason, people like Obama as a person. Romney is just a cold fish to most people. Once the MSM gets finished with its coverage of the strange beliefs of Mormonism, Romney will be viewed very suspiciously.
Put a Republican who can credibly stake out clear policy differences with Obama and that person will win. Running Obama-lite versus Obama is a losing strategy.
Truth is, ANY Republican will trounce the universally hated incompetent Carter, er, Obama. Just don’t like the media building up Romney as our savior when the ONLY thing going for him is the “R” after his name He doesn’t even qualify as a RINO. He’s a full-blooming abortionist/socialist/statist liberal progressive!! He’s the exact opposite of what we need in DC. He has no redeeming conservative principles or qualifications whatsoever.
Rebellion is brewing!!
January
? - Iowa 28 delegates
? - New Hampshire 12
Newt - South Carolina 25
Newt - Florida 50
February
Newt - Nevada 28
Newt - Maine 24
? - Colorado 36
? - Minnesota 40
? - Arizona 29
Newt - Michigan 30
March
Newt - Washington 43
Newt - Alaska 27
Newt - Georgia 76
Newt - Idaho 32
RINO - Mass 41
Newt - North Dakota 28
Newt - Ohio 66
Newt - Oklahoma 43
Newt - Tennessee 58
? - Vermont 17
Newt - Virginia 50
Newt - Wyoming 29
Newt - Kansas 40
Newt - Alabama 50
? - Hawaii 20
Newt - Mississippi 40
Newt - Missouri 52
? - Illinois 69
Newt - Louisiana 46
April
Newt - Maryland 37
Newt or Perry - Texas 155
? - Wash D.C. 19
Newt - Wisconsin 42
? - Connecticut 28
? - Delaware 17
? - New York 95
Newt - Pennsylvania 72
? - Rhode Island 19
May
Newt - Indiana 46
Newt - North Carolina 55
Newt - West Virginia 31
Newt - Nebraska 35
Newt - Oregon 29
Newt - Arkansas 36
Newt - Kentucky 45
June
? - California 172
Newt - Montana 26
Newt - New Jersey 50
Newt - New Mexico 23
Newt - South Dakota 28
RINO - Utah 40
” Just don’t like the media building up Romney as our savior when the ONLY thing going for him is the “R” after his name. He doesn’t even qualify as a RINO. He’s a full-blooming abortionist/socialist/statist liberal progressive!! “ <<<<
The big trap is not just in the media, but here, being led like lambs to the slaughter into entertaining the idea of Romney as the nominee, BEFORE THE FIGHT EVEN BEGINS, and at the first sign of incoming. We have ONE disappointing poll and a media parade selling it, and we have to discuss Romney as the best nominee over Newt, or the rest, based on that? Hardly. These purveyors for Romney are introducing all this pipe pondering deliberately, to diminish the non-Romney enthusiasm, using this poll to coax us into a discussion of a worst case scenario with Romney as the nominee. The by product is to soften us up, hoping to make Romney appear more tolerable NOW, during the primary. It is too dang early to throw in the towel for Romney. (In My Hardly Humble Opinion.) I don’t like it one bit.
You gotta realize ALL the early races are PROPORTIONAL delegates, not winner-take-all, and some of the later ones I think. So the winner doesn’t get all the delegates. One difference that makes is that a close second is ALMOST as good as winning. And a blowout win is MUCH better than a close win. I don’t know if that changes the calculation in Newt’s favor or not. That definitely helps Mitt in NH.
I thought they were running for president, not Miss America. Aside from Bachmann, I’m not looking forward to the swimsuit competition. Now I really wish Palin had got in the race.
There must be a sea monster in Lake Michigan who, due to reduced tourism under Obama’s economy, has been forced to live off food stamps.
Romney the Alien vs. Obama the Predator...whoever wins, we lose.
Double the marxism and double the corruption. Yeah, it will never happen. Of course, with Hillary as VP, Obama wouldn’t have to keep blaming Bush and he could ... oh hell, never mind. Wow! had a trash fire going earlier and it got out of hand. All of a sudden the wind got up and bam, it spread, like a, like a wild fire! With shovel and rake, I started digging trenches but saw it was too much. Told my wife to call the volunteer FD. They got out here quick as they could. Couple of neighbors stopped over to help and we had mostly contained the fire and the FD finished up. Wheee! Luckily there was moisture in the pine trees and the wind let up. Everything ok now.But worn down. Be careful with trash burning.
Georgia has 76 delegates. Newt Wins again!
“Mormons don’t serve in the military. Refuse to serve in the military.”
what do you base this conclusion on? i have known Mormons who have served in the Army in Iraq.
I will not vote for the faux Republican known as Mitt Romney if he is the Republican nominee. As was pointed out in earlier posts, better a conservative Republican House and Senate and Obama as President, than a conservative Republican House and Senate with Romney as President. An Obama-light Republican President will destroy the Republican party brand, what’s left of it.
Side note: how does a state like Iowa (28) with a population of 3,007,856 have more delegates than South Carolina (25) which has a population of 4,561,242 ?????
Side note: how does a state like Iowa (28) with a population of 3,007,856 have more delegates than South Carolina (25) which has a population of 4,561,242 ?????
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