Posted on 08/22/2007 3:40:36 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
A new Rasmussen report shows that however high Hilary Clinton's negative ratings might be, Mitt Romney's are worse.
44% of likely voters would vote against Mr. Romney, as opposed to 43% against Mrs. Clinton. The Romney-haters include 25% of Republicans who say they would definitely vote against the former Massachusetts governor. While none of this means voters couldn't change their minds over the next year-plus, it's amazing that Mr. Romney scores so high despite his low name-ID this early in the game. Only one other Republican outdoes Mrs. Clinton on this measure: Newt Gingrich.
And what do you make of the 25% of Republicans who say they will NOT vote for Romney? To me, it spells trouble in the
general election.
/sarcasm
That means there is a huge middle ground. Looks like this nation is moving toward three parties unless Repubs and Dems can’t find more suitable candidates.
bump
I’m not a Romney supporter, but this report really means nothing - there’s a one percent difference between his and Hillary’s? That’s stastically insignificant, and hers should be more solid.
It’s also weighed questionably:
“Like all polling firms, Rasmussen Reports weights its data to reflect the population at large. Among other targets, Rasmussen Reports weights data by political party affiliation using a dynamic weighting process. Our targets are established based upon survey interviews completed during the preceding three months (a total of 45,000 interviews). For the month of August, the targets are 36.1% Democrat, 31.3% Republican, and 32.6% Unaffiliated with Either Major Party For the month of July, the targets were 36.3% Democrats, 31.3% Republican, and 32.4% unaffiliated.”
it means there is a mormon factor. Somehow rudy isn’t affected even though romney would be a lot better.
With GOP voters, I think its more Romney’s flip-flopping, not for being Mormon, that has many unwilling to vote for him.
everyone flipflops in politics. that is not the reason why his negatives are comparable to hillary
Rasmussen is a very reliable poll and there are others which show similarly high negatives for Romney. Mason Dixon in June and Gallup in August had Mitt the most disliked of all the Republican candidates. And this is in spite of the millions he has already spent.
The fact that he alone is as unpopular as Hillary means that he is one of the Republicans she can beat.
BTW the poll is weighted according to the numbers of self identified voters and seems accurate according to what I have read about current party self identification.
If Mitt gets the republican nomination the media goon squad --which is blindly liberal and a democrat sycophancy-- will plaster the media channels with so much of the strange things about Mormonism that the American people will wonder how a man running for president could believe such nonsense and how thr republicans could put such a candidate up for the election! The conservative turnout will be suppressed significantly enough to hand the general to the DNC canidate and a whole lot more democrats in House and Senate.
Frankly, I don't think there is anything Romney can do to dispell the repulsion Christian conservatives will have upon hearing the fundamental heresies in Mormonism. He has one tremendous thing going for him, his family, family life, and the fine sons he and Ann have turned out. America is slowly dying because the family as the fundamental instituional glue is horrifically eroded and supplanted by liberalism.
I don’t think that’s a very accurate baseline, though - party affiliation doesn’t fluctuate on a whim.
No matter, it’s true that about Romney, although I’ve seen Hillary’s “negatives” much higher than 43.
It's both, but one thing that evangelical Republicans and godless Democrats have in common, is that neither will vote for him because of his religion...
Either party will deserve their fate, win or lose. They choose the nominee. The American people will get the excellence or mediocrity that they deserve.
1% between Clinton & Romney doesn't amount to much, given margin of error and election year momentum swings.
I like what Romney said at the first debate, something like, 'If we wanted to run government by opinion polls, we could just have a machine make all the decisions.'
Rudy still has a cult-of-personality thing going for him from that "Mayor America" persona crafted in the media post 9/11.
Newt appears to still be tainted by the Clinton's ability to make him a lightning rod.
You are so right. It seems to me that Romney will say ANYTHING to get elected.
Only 63% of them. (about the same fraction as Republicans who really fear the lightweights Edwards and Obama)
Romney's overall negatives are high because 25% of Republicans will not hold there noses and vote (R) if he is the candidate.
All in all, this is not something Romney can be proud of.
Romney: “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
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