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The news for Mitt Romney has been pretty good lately; he leads the Republican presidential field in the the latest Gallup poll of the race.
Romney also ranks first among potential Republican primary voters who feel business and the economy are the most important issue right now. While polling at only 17 percent is a pretty modest lead, in a crowded field, a candidate will likely only need to get a little over 35 percent of the votes in the early primary states to pull of a plurality victory.
Romney has so far also shown some impressive fundraising numbers, recently bringing in $10 million in a single day. Most importantly, the rest of the potential field has turned out to be surprisingly weak, uninspiring, and/or flawed. Both Mitch Daniels and Mike Huckabee decided against running. Tim Pawlenty can’t seem to excite anyone, and Newt Gingrich seems to have a fatal case of foot-in-mouth disease.
I’ve long thought Mitt Romney’s embrace of health care reform in Massachusetts would make winning the GOP primary extremely difficult for Romney, but the 2012 GOP presidential primary may be a reminder that to win you don’t need to to be perfect, you just need to be slightly less worse than the other competition.
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Most of the candidates have had a good bit of exposure now and Mitt still only has 17%? He’s going to need all that money.
Ron Paul is third with 10%. Too bad for him that the other 90% would prefer anyone else on the list over him.
Newt Gingrich is still getting 9%?
Willard has less chance of getting the Republican nomination than my cat. Maybe they should poll primary voters instead of just registered Republicans.
Palin’s running third party.
And Frothy Mixture brings up the rear.
The problem for the Rs is if not Mitt, then who? The R voters apparently don’t really like any of them. I’m very upset by that. s/
I’ve been a democrat all of my life and I’m NOT going to vote for obama the fraud. Depending on what I hear from Romney, I may vote for him. If I don’t like what I hear, I’ll write in Bernie Sanders. I have neighbors who are democrats and they feel the same.
All of them are visiting friends on the hill and plan on talking up the job issue for their campaigns. I hope somebody has the guts to ask them why they didn’t work on those issues starting back in 2002.
anybody know offhand if the Mitt voted in favor of those free trade deals?
No need to go look it up. Just curious.
Mitt: “Businesspeople should negotiate trade, not politicians.”
They’re still waiting on their savior, just like in 2008. I wonder if Fred Thompson is still available?
Kind of amusing that Herman “Who?” Cain is enjoying a two-point lead over Tim “Oh, that guy” Pawlenty. That gap might widen by a point or so as news of T-Paw’s cavein on the Ryan budget debacle gets around, but mostly it shows how deeply dull and uncharismatic T-Paw really is.
LOL! We all are.
I just don’t know who is big enough to go up against the man that got Osama, or who is the biggest corporate pimp evah. I mean, just look at this ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5zH0Il8B0&feature=player_embedded
Tee-Hee! Businessman Mitt says that. Muuhahaha!
You mean Godot hasn’t come yet?
Just breathin’ hard.
How’s the job?
…hey, let’s just listen to Mitt and the failed GOP, and go back to cut taxes / cut govt that we tried for the 3 decades of the Reagan/Bush era. In fact, let’s get ANOTHER big tax cut to the wealthiest as we did in 1981 and 2001.
I mean, that worked SO well to deliver Trickle Down prosperity. Almost nobody is unemployed now. And the banks and oil drillers and health insurers, heck – they POLICED THEMSELVES!!! Get government out of the WAY by golly!
Abe Lincoln would have said;
“You can fool some of the people, ALL of the time”… ;^)
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The Powerful who run the country have picked our presidents since the end of WWII. The requirements are to keep the governments hands off WallStreetWelfare by dismantling the New Deal and to continue the battle against the organizations that serve the well being of the unwashed masses (all unions, I’m looking at you Tom Brady). Lilly Ledbetter aside (passing laws is one thing, enforcing them is another matter), Obama has done the job well enough to be granted another stay, unless. And if not then I see it on the 2nd Tuesday in November ’12 coming down to Obama vs someone who can win the “Independent” middle: Jon Huntsman, the white Obama, vs. Barack Obama, the black Jon Huntsman.
Yeah, and GWB was a real charismatic dynamo.
Still doing okay, day 8.
That’s really great, Margaret. I wish you so much goodness and hope it works out for you.
Thanks — I hadn’t noticed that. That’s the most interesting finding in the survey. If his placing in this poll gets played up, the media attention alone could boost him up to third place.
Ron Paul isn’t likely to expand his fan club. Everybody knows Newt Gingrich. Herman Cain is still unknown to most Americans, but his story is appealing. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him place ahead of Paul & Gingrich in coming weeks.
There is no F’n way on this green earth that the evangelical Xians are going to vote for a M.O.R.M.O.N. I mean, Mormons call non-Mormons GENTILES, for Dog’s sake.
You mean you would vote for someone who belongs to a religion that was the primary monetary backer for prop h8 in CA?? And if you don’t think Mormons are a homophobic block you are delusional. And for the record, I am an anti-FUNDAMENTALIST, and the Mormons are only one of those groups that I view as a threat to free societies everywhere.
Pawlenty has an interesting back story, that its not true doesn’t make it any less interesting (after all, Washington didn’t really kill his sensei in a duel either). :o)
Paw puts his beer down and walks over and grabs that pimp by his knife hand, and that pimp jerked back and turned around and said “Man, I cut you, I got a knife.”
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2011/05/pawlenty-for-president.html
Sarah Palin will jump in the race soon enough. Will be interesting to see if she takes up the Donald Trump/Pat Buchanan/Warren Buffett fair trade position, that would be a potent issue with 9.0% unemployment and a $500 billion demand leakage caused by our trade deficit.
Under the Buffet plan, exporters would receive certificates equal to the dollar value of the goods they export. Importers would need to buy these certificates to cover the dollar value of the goods they import. The certificates would be sold on an open market. This would force the value of imports to match the value of exports and, in contrast to quotas or tariffs, would not be aimed at particular countries or industries.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-gomory/country-and-company-part_b_196131.html
Margaret. I am a staunch Mitt Romney Supporter. I think up until now a lot of people have followed one particular candidate or another. Everyone is busy, and only has so many hours in the day to learn about a particular candidate. But if you want to understand better why Mitt Romney is going to get the nomination and win the presidency, just google his speeches. Especially his speech at the Reagan Library fromn 2010. Watch the whole speech, don’t take someone else’s word for what he said in the speech. With the internet now, it is just to easy to become informed. I do not comment about a particular issue or person or candidate unless I become informed first.
You might be right, alot of people may not vote for Mitt Romney, becaue of religious reasons. Fortunately one of the improvements I have seen in our country during my life time, I am 53, Is that race and religion are fading into the background, and ability and performance are replacing them when it comes to hiring anyone for any job including public office. So I think the people that won’t vote for Mitt Romney because of religious reasons are becoming fewer and fewer, and certainly, are way to small of a number anymore to keep him from not only becoming the republican nominee, but also the president.