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Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are tied nationally at 30 percent each according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. Ron Paul is at 15 percent and all other candidate are currently in the single digits.
Overall the poll is pretty good news for the Romney campaign despite being neck and neck with Gingrich. This is one of the first national polls to show Romney breaking what had been a ceiling of roughly 25 percent. The poll shows Romney is the most electable of the GOP candidates. Most importantly the poll found that the Republican base believes Romney is the most electable. From the Washington Post:
Romney has a 10-point advantage on the key question of who Republicans think is most likely to beat Obama. Romney also leads Gingrich when it comes to dealing with issue No. 1, the economy. Gingrich counters with a big advantage on experience: By about 2 to 1, more see him as having the best résumé for the White House and as being the most qualified to be commander in chief.
Among registered voters in a theoretical general election match up, Romney is tied with Obama, 47-47. Against Gingrich though, Obama holds a substantial lead, 51-43. Even Ron Paul performs better than Gingrich in a general election match up; Paul only loses to Obama, 49-44.
This is roughly about where the Romney campaign should want to be at this point. His poll numbers are now finally starting to rise right before the voting actually happens, and his one main rival, Gingrich, carries the risk of not being able to defeat Obama. The base might not be in love with Romney, but they are passionate about getting Obama out of the White House.
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A gasbag and a cardboard cutout. That’s a helluva choice.
Yeah, almost makes you feel sorry for Republican voters, doesn’t it?
“Let’s see, should I vote for the batshit crazy one, the nucking futs batshit crazy one, the completely batshit crazy one, that other completely batshit crazy one, or go for the works and vote for the nucking futs, batshit crazy, clueless and dipshit one?”
Note: I did say “almost” above.
I do feel sorry for the GOP. They’ve got a gasbag or a cardboard cutout, we have a gasbag and a cardboard cutout.
Boxturtle (Apologies to all blimps)
Ah, you said what I was thinking; I almost feel sorry for them.
I kinda feel for Mitt… how pathetic that his “good news” is that he’s finally breaking 25%?
And once again, it shows how batshit crazy at least 0% of the Republican voters are.
Nate Silver is saying that Paul is going to win Iowa. If that doesn’t screw up this already crazy campaign, nothing will. The Rs in Iowa are concerned that it will make them a joke…..
I fail to see how supporting Paul is any more humorous than supporting Gingrich.
Boxturtle (Let’s face it, this year it’s more a question of how bad a joke)
Although I like some of Ron Paul’s platform/ideas/whatever, I’m not a huge fan. That said, at least Ron Paul has been pretty consistent and pretty clear about who he is, what he stands for, and what he’ll campaign on. I have to give Paul some credit for that.
The rest of the “field” of contenders are such blow-hard flip-floppers, it’s next to impossible to tell who they are or what they stand for, other than being in the thrall of the 1% and/or their own crazed, nutty “beliefs.”
Sad to say, but voting for Ron Paul – from a conservative perspective – may be the wiser choice???
But Zeros campaign slogan is, “I may be a gas bag cardboard cut_out, but I suck less than the other gas bag cardboard cut_outs.”
The Iowanians ARE indeed fearful that a Paul win will make them a joke AND IRRELEVANT. Personally, I thought they aleady achieved that status when Bachmann won the straw poll.
Paul versus Gingrich………….that IS a tough choice, humor wise.
I vote for Bachmann. Nobody beats her in that department IMO.
Hey, my friend is a printer in St. Louis. He says the “We suck less/Obama ’12″ are already printed. Campaign buttons are next.
Just the message the unemployed in the Midwest Rust Belt need to hear.
Latest NH poll has Ron Paul a pretty strong second. If Paul wins Iowa, that should be wind for his sails in NH. If he keeps Romney’s victory in NH to single digits, would you still say a Paul victory in Iowa is irrelevant?
A tie goes to Newt since he leads by 10-15% among self identified “conservative GOP” – and those are the ones that show up at a caucus or primary.
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Paul is a bonafide small government/social conservative. The Republicans reject him because he wants to end the war on drugs and because he wants to stop murdering Muslims.
I would vote for Paul over Obama if he gets the GOP nomination. That will never happen, though. The oligarchs would never countenance it. He would have an “accident” RFK style before he even got close.
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