Posted on 01/26/2015 11:15:19 AM PST by Din Maker
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s apparent decision to speed up his entry into the growing field of 2016 Republican presidential primary challengers is coming at the perfect time, as a new poll out Friday shows him moving into second place behind repeat candidate Mitt Romney.
What’s more, the gap in the new Zogby Analytics poll is tiny, just three percentage points. And Rubio, the freshest hopeful to show a determined interest in the race, is also tied with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
The poll finds that women especially favor Rubio and also that he has a lot of room to gain with men, who typically vote in majorities with Republicans in the general election.
Romney does better among men (20%) than women (13%) and among self-identified Republicans (19%). Bush also does better among men (16%) than women (10%) and gets 14% support among self-identified Republicans (14%). But Rubio is receiving 22% support among women to only 4% of men and does equally well (16% each) among both self-identified Republicans and conservatives.
Indeed and thanks for responding to my post. I've focused thus far on the racial and ethnicity angle. And for the record, I'll repeat again that racism simply has never existed here on Free Republic aside from the well-documented occasions when DemonRATs spew their venom here -- and are quickly zotted.
As for religion, there are indeed feisty dialogs about religion and doctrine. But I have never seen even a hint of anti-Catholicism here on the forum. The religion forums are well moderated and any taint of such things are quickly pulled. Although Mormonism (emphasis on "ism") is rightly attacked as the spurious cult which it is, there are no such attacks on certain Mormons as individuals (regardless of their heretical "beliefs"). As exhibit A, take Senator Mike Lee. In spite of being a member of the LDS cult, as a man and a politician, he's generally well liked by most FReepers. In contrast, Mitt Romney was reviled not for his religion but because of his leftist policy positions.
I am only voting for Walker or Cruz or any combination between seats. Other then those two forget it. I am sick of my vote for President being nothing. My first vote for for Bush I in 1988 and since then voting for President hasn’t been exactly exciting.....Bush II was ok the first time, but the second time was good but not exciting. Voting for Dole was probably the most discouraging......oh how boring but held my nose very tight.
I’m not one to say “Let’s see what happens.”, but, let’s see what happens.
Stroking out a year early isn’t good for you, man. Relax. Enjoy the coming “APOCALYPSE (S)NOW”.
Perhaps, but at least screwed by something they rejected.
Vote R if it's functional Democrat registered as a Republican, as with Romney, then you get screwed by something you elected.
I voted "for any R against any D" for more than three decades, and have finally woken up to the sucker's game you are still playing and urging others to play.
Wake up! You're voting for tyranny either way. If you're going to vote for something (the only thing you CAN do), then vote for something you want to win.
If you want Romney to win, fine, own it, don't deny it by claiming to be voting "against" the other guy. That's semantic tomfoolery. You vote FOR something, or you don't vote at all, so OWN WHAT YOU VOTE FOR.
Frankly, everything Romney brings to the table, I want to lose. OBVIOUSLY, I can only vote for something else to fulfill my duty to vote (I don't stay home). I want pretty much his whole approach to government to lose, so why are we even in the same party?
I'm behind you all the way if you really truly want a guy like Romney to head a Republican White House, hard left Republican style, fine, vote for it, and know that the Republican party leaves me behind. But OWN IT because that's what you're willing to vote for.
What I should have said is that people on FR are anti-Catholic.
This is news to me. I find FR to be very excepting to Catholics.
I want a Freeper poll, I don’t trust these guys.
Me too. I think you would find that the top two would be Cruz and Walker. Cruz getting a slightly higher percentage, but Walker would be number two in my humble opinion and also observing a lot of “presidential” threads.
A poll of the general population means NOTHING.
What’s important, is REPUBLICAN’s who will pick their
nominee.
RIGHT now think - WALKER!!
Rub’s on my list because he was so dishonest about the details of the Senate amnesty bill.
This happens every time some in the GOP try to push one.
Jeb and Romney, well they speak for themselves.
Governments will change, but the lies will stay the same.
Other than Glen Beck.
Does it bother you that Walker seems to favor a “path to citizenship” for lawbreakers?
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Does it bother you that the people who punished the GOP in 1992, and voted for Ross Perot or stayed home, gave the U.S., and the world, the Clinton’s for life?
Well, you're half right. Any poll taken today, or in eight months from today for that matter, means nothing.
But you're wrong that the preferences of Republicans only matter, because Republicans only cannot elect a President.
The candidate has to be somebody acceptable to white working class Democrats or the candidate will lose.
The fine art of figuring out whether anyone bought the bs results of your last poll.
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It’s not my poll a-hole. I didn’t take the freakin’ poll.
First-term Senators elected President while sitting in the Senate:
Warren Gamaliel Harding
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Barack Hussein Obama.
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I know it’s hard for a Senator to be elected POTUS, but, I steer clear of discussing that lest it jinx my man, Ted Cruz.
” Marco Rubio is NOT for unconditional Amnesty. This freakin’ illegal immigrant problem is something for which we must find some kind of a workable solution;”
The SOLUTION is to abide by, and enforce the LAW.
” But, I’ll tell all of you this: If he is nominated, Marco Rubio will put FL with it’s 29 EVs back in the GOP column and he WILL win the key to the White House. “
BS, but anyway, most FReepers don’t give a rats a$$ if the GOP wins or not, if they sanction amnesty. Amnesty will destroy the country, but that doesn’t seem to bother you a lick.I posted yesterday that if every FReeper spent 2 days in California, they would return home with one goal.....LYNCH every politician in D.C. who is for ANY form of amnesty. You only care about winning.Win by losing....brilliant.
Have we ever elected an affirmative action first-term Senator who gives good speeches?
Oh wait...
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Ted Cruz has been accused of fitting that mold. I understand you not caring for Rubio, but, why are you so dead set against Ted Cruz.
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