Here is a guy that most of the Rudy supporters say they could live with, but who also gets praise from Southern Baptist Leader Land.
He doesn’t upset the fiscal conservatives, the social conservatives seem ready to cling to any piece of wood still floating given the current crop of leading candidates, the libertarians don’t see him poorly, the law-and-order crowd is on board, and even the country-club republicans seem to like his good-old-boy charm.
It will be interesting to see how he fairs once he isn’t “none of the above”, but early signs are this is a guy all the groups could support.
I really thought Mitt Romney would be that compromise candidate, and maybe he still will be, but he has some significant drag due to his being a “Massachusetts politician”. Although I would think that Rudy beating him in Mass. should show who the real “Mass. Liberal” is in the republican party.
But the biggest surprise on negatives has to be Mitt Romney, who one would assume hasn't got the name recognition to generate high negatives. Yet the poll shows that 54% responded that they would definitely not vote for Mitt in the general election. That bodes very ill for the GOP's best fundraising campaign thus far, and one has to wonder whether the Mormon religion plays a part in that result. Nothing he has done so far would create that kind of sharp opposition.
Mitt is unelectable and going nowhere.
RUN, FRED, RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This from today's WaPo poll via Captain's quarters