Iowa Poll: Mitt Romney leads Republicans

The Des Moines Register | 5/19/07 | JONATHAN ROOS

[LdSentinal]

Link only: Mitt Romney leads Republicans

Romney: 30%
McCain: 18%
Rudy:17%
T. Thompson: 7%

Fred Thompson not polled.

Poll taken 5/12-5/16/07

[Liz]

Presidential ================= Post-menopausal.

[Michael A. Velli]

I think Romney is today our MOST ELECTABLE CANDIDATE.

I agree. Fred Thompson just looks old and lazy to me. Romney is bright, fresh, articulate, etc.

And Romney will mop the floor with any Dem he faces in the debates.

[ElephantSteam]

I heard Fred on Levin the other night, and if anything good came out of the immigration garbage from last week, it looks like Fred may get into sooner than expected.

[jedward]

“If a candidate can’t win on the issues, he can’t win a general election.”

Hey Eva. What makes you believe that statement to be true?

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[Edit35]

FABULOUS!!

I firmly believe Mitt Romney is the best among the current candidates, despite whatever negatives (and there are not many) he may have.

We absolutely need a solid orator, especially after seven years of bumble-mouth GWB (sorry George, but your illegal immigration amnesty bill is a deal breaker between me and your administration)

We need someone with a charasmatic family, and the Romney’s are certainly that. Check ‘em out if you haven’t already.

Romney is SOLIDLY AGAINST this suicidal amnesty bill - and that is 90-percent of the way there for me.

Sprinkle in his economic success stories, and his tax stances, and I can overlook his change over abortion.

After all, I’d much rather have someone who saw the former error of their ways, and changed.... rather than someone (does Guliani come to mind?) who sticks by their disgusting abortion and butt-hold marriage stance come hell or high water.

[WFTR]

I read an article somewhere that said that Rudy Giuliani may skip the straw poll or may make only a token effort. If he doesn't do his best in the straw poll, I can't see him winning at the caucuses in January. If a poor effort in August causes him to drop below Tommy Thompson in August, he should leave the race. Losing to Tommy Thompson would be a huge embarrassment to someone who was once the frontrunner.

Bill

[jonathanmo]

Giuliani's strategy doesn't not involve the early primaries like Iowa. He is going for the big ones in February, CA etc...
The pushing up of the primaries has eliminated the primacy of Iowa and NH for front-runners. It still, however, can help 2nd tier candidates to get a boost into the Feb primaries.

[Edit35]

ratings have tumbled

Malaise among Republican base due to GWB's pro-illegal immigration stance was HALF the reason the GOP got trounced in Nov. of 06.

The other half being disgust over the GOP's protection of Foley the Fudgepacker, and disgust over the orgy of earmark spending.

Oh, and the other half being the incessant network media's non-stop slandering of all-things-conservative or GOP.

[WFTR]

I've not followed what Crist is doing, but I have no reason to doubt your statement that he's helping Rudy Giuliani. If he delivers the Florida primary to Rudy Giuliani, next year could become ugly.

I don't think that Jeb Bush needs to endorse Mr. Romney officially. If he is just friendly enough to help Mr. Romney build an organization, I think Florida could go to Mr. Romney. That outcome would make a three-candidate race after February 5 much more likely.

I'm not trying to say that Fred Thompson doesn't have a wide appeal. I'm just not sure how much that wide appeal will translate into votes. If a pollster asked me whether I could be happy with him as our nominee, I'd say yes. However, I don't think that I'd vote for him in a primary because other candidates look better. If you are right about Giuliani winning Florida, New York, and California and if Fred Thompson has more delegates than Mitt Romney does after February 5, Fred Thompson could suddenly win a great deal of support as the "anti-Rudy" candidate.

Bill

[WFTR]

I heard Fred on Levin the other night, and if anything good came out of the immigration garbage from last week, it looks like Fred may get into sooner than expected.

If he's going to get into the race before the fall, he needs to move immediately. The straw poll in Iowa is important for showing the people of Iowa that a candidate cares about their votes. If Fred Thompson gets into the race and doesn't participate, he sends the wrong message to Iowa both for the caucus and for the general election. If he gets into the race and does poorly in that first big straw poll, he loses momentum. If he doesn't have time to build a campaign before August, he'd be better off waiting until September.

Bill

[WFTR]

Giuliani's strategy doesn't not involve the early primaries like Iowa.

The problem with that strategy is that he'll alienate the Iowa voters. The Giuliani supporters believe that he will win the general election by a landslide. They are wrong in that belief. They are overestimating the number of truly moderate and liberal independents out there. They are underestimating how many votes a GOP candidate needs to get and how many Giulinai will lose from conservative Democrats and moderately conservative independents. Regardless of who wins the GOP nomination, the election will be close. Every state will count, and alienating the voters of Iowa is a stupid strategy. Those electoral votes may still be important someday.

Bill

[BillyBoy]

>> Mike Hucklebee is pro Illegal Immigration, check out this site about how he gets mad about a raid on Illegals in his home state. <<

I'm aware of that, which is why Huckabee is not my #1 choice. He's also voted for some tax hikes. That being said, Huckabee is a solid conservative on the rest of the issues and gave a memorial debate preformance, AND he won the governship as a conservative in a RAT infested state, so is overall candidacy is certainly a notch up from the Giuliani/McCain/Romney/Fred crowd, and he has more presence than Brownback or Gilmore.

>> And Tommy Thompson thinks the government needs to implant everyone with id chips. Kinda scary if you ask me. <<

And Fred Thompson is a member of The Council on Foriegn Relations that is dedicated to a one-world government, worked for lobbyists registed as foriegn agents, and believes "Globalization works to our benefit". Kinda scary if you ask me.

All the candidates have their downsides. The voters can decide for themselves whether being on the board of Applied Digital Solutions or on the board of the Council on Foriegn Relations is more incidious. CFR does tend to create red flags alot more.

>> Also check out this lame excuse Tommy uses for making that anti-gay worker comment at the first debate. <<

Tommy's responce was correct, it was his apology that was a mistake. Of course Fred doesn't need to make lame excuses for past record, he's got his supporters to do that for him. The latest one is that Fred was just being a good "federalist" when he said "Should the government come in and criminalize abortion? I think not". Interesting that when Harriet Miers made the same comment, it sunk her supreme court nomination instead of people praising her "federalist values"

>> Maybe Tommy needs to invest in some Depends. No wonder they took soo many breaks during the Fox debate. <<

Maybe you need to lay off the personal attacks. Tommy would be far superior to Giuliani and McCain. And I hate to break the news to you, but Fred is only one year younger than the "elderly" Tommy, and Fred has aged alot worse (which is why his supporters keep using stock photos from 1994 to promote his "candidacy", rather than current pictures)

[RatsDawg]

Tommy Thompson is a member of CFR too.

That qoute about Fred saying that the government shouldn’t criminalize abortions is from like 96. I don’t think he has talked about that recently.

[RatsDawg]

Dick Cheney, and Condi Rice are members of CFR as well.

[RatsDawg]

I will have to take back what I said about Tommy being a member, I read it in an article that stated that he was, but that seems to be the only place that talks about him being a member.

[ElephantSteam]

I know people will get mad at this, but I’ve talked to several of my other conservative christian friends, and whether it is fair or not, the Mormon thing is going to keep people from voting for him. In my 12th Grade Bible Class, one of the Abeka book curriculum’s “Things to Come” where Mormonism, 7th day, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, and even catholicism are all classified as cults, because they either expand, alter, or take away some form of biblical teachings which violates the doctrine of absolute authority of the scriptures that most protestant branches share.

I’m not saying I agree with the above, but Romney gets through to the nomination, those same conservatives who’d sit out a Rudy nominee might do the same. I’m surprised James Dobson hasn’t come out and adressed this issue yet.

[Rameumptom]

I’d hope so. That would be an awesome team.

After the first debate on the Medved show Mitt was asked what he thought of the other candidates. He didn’t mention anyone except Hunter. He said, I learned a lot. I particularly liked the answers Duncan Hunter gave.

[Rameumptom]

Thank you for your openess and honesty. You might be interested in this Evangelical perspective on Mormon Mitt.

Evangelicals for Mitt

[Tarpon]

It looks like a sure thing that Schwarzenegger will endorse Rudy, but that doesn’t mean CA primary voters will. NY, different story, likely Rudy will win.

Florida, still up for grabs. Jeb’s endorsement could swing it either way, Crist’s may have no effect. Florida is the wild card. A lot may depend on what Jeb does. Jeb was a great Gov and people here have a lot of respect for him. He would not endorse Crist in the last election, and was spot on that.

Immigration is having an impact, and Rudy’s previous siding with AMNESTY could doom him. Poll numbers for Rudy have been a downward slide for some time, AMNESTY bill just hastens the plunge.

I don’t care for Romney, I think he is a say anything kind of guy, and being governor of one of the most liberal states is hard to overcome. Romney’s pronouncement that he supports the AW ban at the last conga line performance was the last straw for me. Gun banners don’t trust people to act responsibly, its a dead giveaway as to their true intentions.

Going to bear watching what Fred Thompson does and what impact it has. If Fred’s in, I am going with him. Heck we have been nagging him enough, since way back in December, so ...