Posted on 01/13/2012 8:28:30 AM PST by Qbert
Mitt Romney still holds first place in the South Carolina Primary field, while his opponents jockey for second with the voting eight days away.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters in South Carolina finds Romney ahead with 28% support, but now former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is in second place with 21% of the vote. Support for former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum who was in second a week ago has fallen back to 16%, putting him dead even with Texas Congressman Ron Paul who also earns 16%.
This South Carolina survey of 750 Likely Republican Primary Voters was conducted on January 12, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
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“Could GINGRICH and SANTORUM meet and talk?”
I fully agree. I think Santorum is a really great guy, and normally I would back him first. However, in this cycle, I think Newt would be the better GOP pick to go against the current POTUS. Ultimately, in my thinking a Gingrich/Santorum ticket would be ideal. If Santorum would drop out and endorse Newt, with Newt saying that Santorum WILL be his VP pick....I think it would get traction.
It is really time for Rick Perry, God Bless him, to get out of the race. He also should back Newt.
Ron Paul doesn’t concern me because those persons that would vote for him probably won’t vote for anyone else. So, he is just wasting time. IF I were running for POTUS, I would not want his endorsement.
"Overall, Newt hasn’t gained and Santorum has lost ground to Perry."
Perry is at 5-6% in every poll in SC. He took 1% in NH. And he's currently at 2% in FL. He's the first one that needs to be voted off the island...
“Yes Independents can vote in the SC primary so I was thinking Rasmussen should have had some indenpendents in that poll.”
Oh great....another open primary.
Santorum is the key.
If you go by this poll, and speaking only of SC, Santorum plus Gingrich easily beats Romney.
Since Gingrich is leading among the non Romneys, and speaking only of SC and only by this poll...
Santorum is the key.
It is so old, rote and shopworn to have all these threads where posters demand that Perry drop out or Santorum AND Perry drop out, and try to pretend that Perry is the key to ANYTHING. Not at this time he isn’t.
I would argue that he has by far the best record, is the only non Washington figure, has by far the best plan and on and on. But as for impacting the horse race...no.
Santorum supporters obviously don’t want their guy to drop out...most of them don’t trust the volatile Newt.
Yelp run as a team....Paul should be given the task of auditing the Fed Reserve....Should make his followers happy.
“What is Perry’s number? Rasmussen doesn’t even list Perry. Yet if you add the numbers up, there are 19% unaccounted for. I’m sure most are undecided, but Perry must be getting some support.”
6%. See link:
Right now I feel like the guy in the movie Groundhog Day since I’ve seen this scenario play out SO many times before!
There are far more people in this country who call themselves conservative but when the smoke settles all we ever have left to vote for is socialism lite!
GO NEWT!
Rush talked recently about the New Hampshire exit polling for Ron Paul, saying the the polls indicated a large percentage of RP supporters had no intention of voting for Paul in the general election, but would vote for Obama. I’m trying to find a story with those exit poll numbers. Can anyone direct me to it?
Thanks
So long as Herman Cain is there to be sure Ron Paul gets the math right.
I am catholic/christian trying to use reason.
And some evangelicals and also catholics are boring when they stay focused on a very narrow point of view...It might be ,actually, hardly Evangelical since that so-called “social conservatism” is blind on some very big issues which can’t be taken apart from the others.
Real Conservatives must try to see the whole picture and to be WISER than the average lunatic liberals.
Or maybe some “evangelicals” or “catholics” are trolls in order to divide ....
We should try to hold together freedom, truth-morality,and God ! Since we are not muslims but christians
Newt will be a WHackado president, not a conservative. He will hurt the brand of conservatism if he runs as a conservative, which he isn’t. If Santorum is his veep, he might be hurt by doing so.
I wish I trusted newt the way you all do.
They want Perry out and are apparently going to make that happen. ;-(
Perry is at 6%, where he’s been for a long time, but Huntsman has surprisingly gotten up to 5% in SC.
I intend to write in George Washington for president and vote conservative on all other ballot measures.
"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
“I would argue that he has by far the best record, is the only non Washington figure, has by far the best plan and on and on. But as for impacting the horse race...no. Santorum supporters obviously don’t want their guy to drop out...most of them don’t trust the volatile Newt.”
Your points about Santorum and his supporters are valid. Personally, I would never “demand” he drop out. I have too much respect for Rick Santorum. However, I do “wish” he and Newt could work out a deal.
The youngest credible one (is that Santorum?) should be lined up as veep, because that’s usually the heir apparent to the candidacy from the party of a president who has served two terms. Perry is the only one who had been a governor, so might make sense as the immediate candidate, but his showing in the polls is very anemic, and throwing support to him might not boost him over Mitt Romney.
Newt, military and DOD employee can't get or can lose their top secret clearance for having an affair. One of the main reasons is they can be blackmailed. How can voters be sure you only had two affairs and not susceptible to blackmail? Andrea Mitchell
Newt, the obamas look like the ideal family, while you have had issues with your trustworthiness? How do the voter know they can trust you?
George Stuffleupagus
Here would be an interesting simulation to run.
Since everybody on this forum seems to think like Kansas Girl: “Conservatives have to make a move and unite behind a single candidate NOW or Romney is going to be the nominee even though he is uwanted by 75% of the GOP voters.”,
What if everybody stayed in and actually allowed each state to go through the primary process and primary voters voted like the Rasmussen poll predicts, the Romney: 28.5%Gingrich: 23% Paul: 18% Santorum: 11.5%. in every state.
Would Romney then have enough committed delegates to win the nomination by virtue of winning the winner-take-all states with 28.5% plurality of the votes plus 28.5% of the proportional state delegates, or would the conservative opposition to Romney have more delegates at the Republican National Convention?
The reason to project this out would be to convince conservatives that they do not need to run over the Romney cliff like a bunch of lemmings, just because Romney has the 20-something percent of Republicans who are liberals in his pocket.
G and S would be a big government conservative ticket.
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