Breaking: First New Hampshire GOP Primary Poll Results Are In (Mitt in first, Sarah in 2nd)

Fox News ^ | January 6, 2011

[2ndDivisionVet]

Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney holds a commanding lead in New Hampshire in the early stages of the race for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, according to a new survey commissioned by NH Journal and conducted by Magellan Strategies. The survey is the first statewide survey of Granite State Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in 2011.

Romney leads former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by 23 points, with Romney earning 39% and Palin earning 16%. Mike Huckabee (10%)...

[Diogenesis]

The backstabbing RomneyBOTs HAVE had an effect.

Romney and his malignant BOTs have thrown Elections 2008 and 2010 to the DNC.

Everyone now knows about Rove and TeamRomney vs the GOP in 2010.
In 2008, the McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney once again
had his backstabbing TeamROMNEY
attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008 to the DNC.

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[CharlesWayneCT]

But Palin is already doing better in the polls than the two of them combined. On the other hand, it’s way to early to actually worry about polls. The polls swung wildly in 2008, changing over a period of days sometimes.

[CharlesWayneCT]

In 2008, the McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.

Still hawking that same inaccurate claim? You'd think after having it's falsehood pointed out to you more than twice, you'd figure out how to edit your spam posts to fix it.

[newzjunkey]

Hey, I've got a novel idea. Why not let the voters of a conservative state (like Oklahoma, Idaho, or Mississippi) pick our nominee instead.

This reminds me of why I've long loathed the presidential primary system. No matter how early other states move their primaries, it's "all over" by the time more than a few states have voted.

Republican's don't get a battle like Obama & Hillary had. We get some ego candidates who have no shot, those the press pimp as 'worthy' fodder and then the establishment candidates at the top.

Iowa voters will only support the candidates who want to keep the ethanol subsidies.

[ballplayer]

And it wont be the Republicans shoving the Healthcare issue down the Throats of Republicans it will be the Democrats negating the Biggest issue we have

[who knows what evil?]

This reminds me of why I've long loathed the presidential primary system.

Let the candidates campaign for a few months; then have the primaries on a Saturday late in the year.

[Diogenesis]

Still hawking YOUR pro-Romney ROMNEYBOT falsehoods?

McCain and Palin were ahead so the RomneyBOTs
==== and we know who they were here ====
attacked Gov. Palin and her children for Obama/Romney.

How is that working out for you?

Romney and his malignant BOTs should be punished,
not rewarded for the attacks on the GOP. YOU BETCHA!

[Leisler]

Mittens couldn’t win New Hampshire last time, and a lot has changed. Romneycare has be reviled as the treat them like bugs socialism that it is. Mass cities, towns and hospitals are going more broke, faster. ER vists have Increased. Costs lead the nation. Everything, everything Mitt the Slick promised has gone south, worse.

Now, New Hampshire. It has totally gone Tea Party. The State has gone GOP, and The Party has gone Tea. Mittens has no, zero, chance. The fiscal, anti Obama, anti Socialist Republicans will work Mitt over like a Oakland street gang.

Heck, even in Massachusetts the Democrats got worked over by their own constituents. Half or more wouldn’t even have a town meeting.

No one is going to be polite to ol’Harvard lawyer, carpet bagger, ambition dripping in puddles at his feet Mitt.

He needs it though. He’s so deluded he needs a beating, bad.

Maybe he’ll say he was brainwashed like his idol, his father did when he came back from his weekend in Viet Nam.

[Leisler]

New Hampshire has turned totally Tea Party. The state GOP has been replaced with savage, hard core Tea Partiers. Very young, very anti government, anti debt. Mitt didn’t win last time, and he’s going to get pummeled in the state primary. ( Which, I will enjoy watching.)

Ex New Hampshire Governor, John Sununu who set up and did critical leg work in this election in taking back New Hampshire, was on Boston’s Howie Carr show, and couldn’t have painted a more deadly picture for Mitt, and his ilk GOP types in the state today. Even Howie, who likes Mitt, and was a supporter, and has the largest, most popular 4 hour talk show gives Mitt no chance because of Romneycare.

[magritte]

I would be very pleased to see NH do that...the drift to the left there has been very disheartening...appreciate the background and will keep a watch on your postings about it....magritte

[Past Your Eyes]

There is a standing committee on Municipal and County Government. My father was on it many years ago. I doubt if it would have anything to do with this situation.

[Past Your Eyes]

See my #58.

[Leisler]

Yup, the national figures don’t want to see it, hear it. They are old regime, elitists GOP whom in their minds as individuals and a class, have the right to rule, peasants be damned.

[Article10]

Having read through the thread, there are some interesting thoughts/insights. What is not mentioned and has to vetted and understood is how the NH GOP would handle Romney and Palin. The current NHGOP would smile politely and knife Palin in a heart beat. Romney is the insider.

Watch how the GOP Chair goes, then take it from there and take a tally on how many of the 493 NH GOP Delagates are TEA Party affilated and Christians. All the blathering about the media, Romney care, etc... is chaff compared to these items in my opinion.

[Article10]

I respectfully disagree with your statement. Just because the GOP picked up a majority, the TEA party is not even close to being in charge or having a majority in NH. If the TEA party was as you described, Jack Kimball would be Gov today.

The NH GOP is full of RINO’s, that is just a fact. Please explain the “Republicans for Lynch” crowd and why they are still the insiders at the State Level GOP? Why is Sununu not backing Kimball for GOP Chair? Who is Julianne Bergeron? (I will help you, a first class, RINO) Why is Judas Gregg on the advisory boards of several Repbulican State level think tanks? Sorry to take you away from talk radio, from Mass no less, and the Union Leader in to reality.

[Article10]

None of this will matter until NH changes the law and demands postive identification and residency requirements in order to vote.

Voter fraud is very real in NH, 2006 and 2008 are absolute proof. Jean “I love killing babies”” Shaheen won in 2006 by exactly the amount of same day registrations w/99.8 percent of them in Plymouth, Keene, and Durham. Go figure.......

[CharlesWayneCT]

I hardly think Jim Robinson wants to be dragged into a discussion of how you can't get a simple fact straight, that has nothing to do with Romney but everything to do with simple reading comprehension.

There was no time in the last two months of the election when McCain led Obama by 10 points. There was no point in the last month of the election where McCain led Obama in any tracked polling.

Your statement that there was such a poll is false. And I've shown you that multiple times, and you insist on continuing to mislead your fellow freepers with that false claim.

Surely, there are enough truthful things in this world to point out that you don't need to make things up.

Here is the link again, in case you have forgotten: RCP Polls 2008 Presidential Election:

The last time McCain led by any amount in any poll, it was 2 points, on 9/25, about 40 days before the election.

The last time McCain led by MORE than 2 points, it was 4 points, on 9/11, nearly 2 months before the election.

The last time McCain led by 10 points was 9/7, around the time of the convention. It was just after the convention that McCain had is last streak of days "ahead" in the polls, which ended on 9/11.

It is absurd for you to continue to insist that McCain was up from +4 to +10 points "days before the election". Your false information leads you to false conclusions, but your opinion is yours, and I'm not arguing that, only correcting your false objective evidence.

[who knows what evil?]

None of this will matter until NH changes the law and demands postive identification and residency requirements in order to vote.

Closing the primary to 'independents' wouldn't hurt, either...wonder how many of those 'same day registrations' had Massachusetts or Maine plates on their cars?

[Article10]

Plenty did, how about the 8 charter busses with staff from Organizing America in Durham shuttling students from UNH to the town hall all day long. On the bus they “schooled” the kids on how to fill out the registration forms, had sample ballots with Othugga marked off and the ammensty letter to William Gardner, NH Sectary of State included w/stamped envelope, just sign and send to avoid prosecution.

[Leisler]

Mitt didn’t win last time, it’s worse for him now. Way worse. By the primaries, do you think conservatives, moderate Republicans, even RINO’s are going to be more status quo, or more radicalized. I’m betting the economy becomes more of a grind, that more move right, and the right moves more conservative.

So, what’s Mitt going to do, be Mr. Conservative? Have Pat Buchanan standing next to him?

Who wins NH isn’t going to be an anointed GOP hack. He/she is going to have to run against the party.