Posted on 02/24/2012 9:53:29 AM PST by Steelfish
February 21, 2012
Santorum Leads In Washington
Wedged between the Michigan/Arizona primaries and Super Tuesday the Washington state GOP caucus hasn't received a lot of attention. At least for now it looks like it could give Rick Santorum some momentum headed into the critical March 6th contests. He leads there with 38% to 27% for Mitt Romney, 15% for Ron Paul, and 12% for Newt Gingrich.
Santorum is by far the most popular of the Republican candidates with 69% viewing him favorably to only 18% with a negative opinion. Romney is the only other one who even has a positive favorability rating. He's at 47/42. The disparity between Santorum and Romney's numbers in Washington resembles what we found for the contests two weeks ago in Missouri and Minnesota, both of which Santorum ended up winning by a healthy margin.
Next week looks like it could be disastrous for Gingrich. He's in 4th place in both Washington and Michigan, and in 3rd place in Arizona. He's not remotely close to finishing in the top 2 in any of those states. It's not just that Republican voters aren't planning to vote for Gingrich, they don't even like him any more. In Washington his favorability is upside down at 39/46 and the same is true in Michigan (39/50) and Arizona (43/48) as well.
Gingrich's continued presence in the state is a boost to Romney. If he pulled out before Washington 59% of his supporters say they'd move to Santorum, compared to only 13% who would go to Romney. That would make the overall standings Santorum 49, Romney 28, Paul 16- as long as Gingrich stays in and keeps splitting the conservative vote it's keeping Romney competitive.
(Excerpt) Read more at publicpolicypolling.com ...
Also, this poll was REPORTED on February 21, BEFORE the disastrous debate.
Hmmm, a Lib polling outfit pushing for Newt to leave the race. No ulterior motive on that one ...
Today’s poll confirms that this is a 2-man race. Newt is wasting his time, diverting resources to conservative nominees, and is polling in single digits in all battleground states and should be held responsible if Romney captures the nomination. That is the reality, the hard truth. You folks can behave like the proverbial three monkeys but all the buzz is Romney or Santorum. No one’s paying attention to Gingrich.
Funny how logical me thinks otherwise.
Gingrich is wasting his time and is becoming an unwitting enabler of Romney being able to capture the nomination. This is now a 2-man race.
Here’s Stacy McCain from the American Spectator on why Obama fears Santorum:
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A recent Washington Post article reported that the Obama campaign, which has spent most of the past year operating on the assumption that Romney would be the Republican nominee, had re-assigned researchers to begin “digging into Santorum’s background.”
In recent days, the president’s Chicago-based campaign staff has “begun to consider the implications of a Santorum victory,” the Post’s Sandhya Somashekhar reported. “They view him as a weaker general election opponent, but one who has shown an ability to connect with the population that is most disillusioned with Obama: white, blue-collar voters.”
One look at the Electoral College map should make clear why, despite their description of Santorum as the “weaker” Republican candidate, Team Obama may be especially worried about his potential strengths as an opponent in the fall campaign. The so-called Rust Belt states — from Santorum’s home state of Pennsylvania, across West Virginia and Ohio all the way west to Wisconsin, Minnesota — are home to many millions of those “white, blue-collar voters” and Santorum has indeed shown an ability to connect with that “disillusioned” population.
These are Americans who were notoriously described by Obama in April 2008: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
This is NOT today’s poll! Click on your own link, scroll down to the bottom of the “opinions” and click on the “Full Results Here” You will see that these poll results are BEFORE the debate.
Boo-FReepin-Hoo, steelfish. You’re not calling the shots.
Newt Gingrich is the candidate of substance and prayerfully, he’ll either win the nomination or win enough delegates to throw the convention into a brokered or open convention.
He’s been ahead “in the polls” several times.
Keep Dreamin’
“After Mr. Santorum, who pulls in a 36 percent favorability rating among Washington state voters, Mr. Paul is the next most popular Republican candidate. The Texas congressman has a favorability rating of 31 percent, while Mr. Romney has a favorability rating of only 27 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose popularity has plummeted on the national stage, has a 19 percent favorability rating in the Evergreen State.”
***the entire MSM continually ignore Newt or put him down***
The MSM does not have the intellect or common sense to analyze Newt’s proposals, his public record of accomplishments or other policy positions - so they are forced to ignore him.
When they ‘put him down’ they reached into a private life and its frailties. Newt divorced and married mature women; he was not guilty of abusing staff or immature groupies ala John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, & Al Gore’s massage fetish; where their young children were the ultimate victims of despicable behavior by their fathers.
If Mittens and his other brother, Ron, can form an evil tag team alliance(Got Rand for Veep?)
then for the sake of our Republic and victory, BRING IT ON, Newt and Rick!
Pool your resources, guys.
Two Conservative heads are better than none.
Newt: Ask your voters to cross over and vote for Rick in Michigan next week to DEFEAT ROMNEY!
The two of you can figure out whose gonna win or do what later. :-)
You are BOTH patriots..so come together now, before it’s too late.
Go Rick! Go Newt! No Romney/No way!
Santorum still way way behind Newt in actual votes received, by almost two to one ratio. Even after Michigan and Arizona, Newt will be ahead in raw votes. So let’s let that, and the debate debacle for Santorum, sink in before we push Newt out of the race.
Also, PPP is a polling outfit that would have an orgasm over Rick S getting the GOP nod. They would LOVE THAT.
We may end up with either Eddie Haskell or Obama Lite.
You follow polls and I follow Newt Gingrich.
Ron Paul is also building delegates, likely to throw to Romney, but you’re worried about Newt Gingrich!
You’re wasting your time, calling for Newt Gingrich to drop out before Super Tueday when Georgia votes.
Get a grip.
Well.....ok..... that is Michigan. Your original thread is about Washington. The trend actually does not look good for Santorum after the debate.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/michigan/2012_michigan_republican_primary
From Ed Morrissey:”I’d consider this bad news, and perhaps a harbinger of how the Wednesday debate will impact Santorum over the next few days. Watch the polling over the weekend to see if this trend bears out in multi-day surveys, which will tell the tale of whether the impact will be momentary or lasting.”
We shall see.
Have you ever wondered why this is? Or why the MSM picked McCain and Huckabee as their chosen Republicans in 2008?
Newt Gingrich dropped his campaign in Michigan for that very reason!
Gingrich gets it.
God bless Newt Gingrich. I so pray for him to Win.
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