Posted on 08/11/2011 4:02:18 PM PDT by curth
August 2, 2011 Poll Watch: Gallup 2012 Republican Favorability Survey
Ratings of 2012 Contenders Steady in July: Giuliani, Palin & Romney enjoy broadest popularity
Favorability Ratings
* Rudy Giuliani 70% * Sarah Palin 65% * Mitt Romney 62% * Ron Paul 50% * Michele Bachmann 49% * Newt Gingrich 48% * Rick Perry 40% * Tim Pawlenty 36% * Herman Cain 35% * Rick Santorum 31% * Jon Huntsman 22%
Positive Intensity Score (Strongly Favorable minus Strongly Unfavorable)
* Herman Cain +25% * Rick Perry +24% * Rudy Giuliani +19% * Sarah Palin +16% * Mitt Romney +15% * Michele Bachmann +14% * Tim Pawlenty +9% * Ron Paul +8% * Rick Santorum +7% * Jon Huntsman +5% * Newt Gingrich +1%
Name Recognition
* Sarah Palin 96% * Rudy Giuliani 89% * Mitt Romney 84% * Newt Gingrich 84% * Ron Paul 77% * Michele Bachmann 76% * Rick Perry 54% * Tim Pawlenty 54% * Rick Santorum 50% * Herman Cain 46% * Jon Huntsman 40%
Why does anyone give a flying F about Rudy? He’s not running, he’s not going to run, there is NO clamor for his candidacy whatsoever.
Giuliani, seriously?
He’s very seriously looking at running. John Bolton is considering it as well.
I wondered the same thing. What the heck does Rudy have to do with the 2012 election? Just throwing his name into this poll casts a pall of suspicion on the whole project. He's completely irrelevant.
He shouldn’t even be listed. In fact only candidates should be listed. The only poll that matters is the one on election day, and if you are not a candidate you cannot win. Pretty simple really.
Rudy is popular with New Yorkers and those who appropriately admire his handling of the 9/11 attacks, and there are a lot of them, not that it matters since he is not running.
Sarah is popular with patriotic Americans, particularly Tea Party Americans who care about our children having a functional country that is not bankrupt, and there are a lot of them.
Mitt is popular with RINOs and with Dems who want to mess with our primary, and there are a lot of them.
The real question: Are there enough decent Americans who will vote in 2012 that we can choose our own nominee, or will the far left choose who runs against their "messiah" again?
And neither has even the slightest chance in hell of winning the nomination.
There is no room in the race for Giuliani, Romney already dominates the RINO/moderate wing of the party. It's why Huntsman can't get any traction.
And Bolton says all the things on foreign policy, but he looks like a walrus and the election is likely going to focus almost entirely on the economy which is not his area of strength.
Would Guiliani take votes from Romney?
Sure, he'd siphon some off. And in the interest of making sure Romney doesn't win the nomination that could be good. He might even split the RINO/moderate vote with Romney, but there is still not path to victory for him. Giuliani is remembered fondly for his response to 9-11 and that would buy him a warm reception, but at the end of the day he is pro-abortion (and pro-gay marriage I believe), and those positions are simply unacceptable to the bulk of Republican primary voters.
My vote is already ‘positively’ accounted for but I’d vote for Rudy before these clowns ....Mitt Romney Newt Gingrich Tim Pawlenty Herman Cain Rick Santorum Jon Huntsman John Bolton.
What the h*ll have they ever done for our country to be serious about running?
Ratings of 2012 Contenders Steady in July: Giuliani, Palin & Romney enjoy broadest popularity ............................................... Damn it! When is the Fat lady going to sing? Enough already. I am so totally confused with all these surveys and polls. I don’t know what to believe. I’m still going with Palin even though I’m flexible.
Ratings of 2012 Contenders Steady in July: Giuliani, Palin & Romney enjoy broadest popularity ............................................... Damn it! When is the Fat lady going to sing? Enough already. I am so totally confused with all these surveys and polls. I don’t know what to believe. I’m still going with Palin even though I’m flexible.
*Shrugs shoulders*
Then Gallup is significantly at odds with Fox:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2762342/posts
Yeah, I'll give you that. Don't get me wrong, I like Giuliani and know he's done some amazing things. I'd certainly vote for him over Hussein. The problem is I can't vote to nominate a pro-abortion candidate for President. If he somehow won the nomination and my choice was Giuliani or Hussein, he'd get my vote, but I do have a choice in the primaries and there is no chance Giuliani would be it. I am fairly certain the vast majority of Republican primary voters are of the same mind when it comes to this issue.
Who can believe any poll that has Rooty at the top? LOL
I am trusting Fox less and less these days.
Just about every poll out there is at odds with Fox
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