Posted on 11/03/2007 10:34:50 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Rudy and Fred are close, but it was the trend I was looking at not necessarily the numbers.
And if you take a average of all the polls, Rudy leads by 13.2%
Fred - Mitt Romney is a fine family man. I am proud to support him. Your cartoon is silly but not surprising.
Rasmussen has Huckabee with a significant increase (+6) and a slight portion (2%) to Mitt, while none of the others seem to be picking it up. Rudy is stuck around the same numbers,and McCain, despite his success in head to head polls with the Beast seems right around the same.
I was just following the trends of the race, not necessarily the exact numbers.
“Mitt . . . no real core beliefs”
You have got to be kidding, right? I never thought I’d hear anyone (with a brain and half a heart) say Mitt Romney has “no real core beliefs”.
Mitt Romney is a fine man, with a fine family, and he does not deserve to be maligned and ridiculed.
Go, Mitt - all the way to the White House. While petty silly FReepers are insulting him and touting a johnny-come-lately candidate, Mitt Romney is working his heart out quietly but steadily winning over conservative voters one by one, county by county, state by state. He actually has a plan for victory and has the ability to focus.
Go, Mitt!
No more silly than your continuous attacks on Fred. For what it is worth, Mitt IS gonna to be far more susceptible to attacks of being a flip-flopper than any of the other candidates.
So you are the arbitrator of which candidates deserves to be ridiculed and which ones don't? Really, if you don't want your candidate to be ridiculed, perhaps you should think about not ridiculing the other candidates. Just a thought.
“continuous attacks on Fred”
Where have you been, FReeper pal. I decided a long time ago I do not need to attack Fred - he’s failing all by himself.
I have to say your posting history looks a lot better than what it was, but you still have your moments.
Yes, that 2nd place nationally and in California & Florida, along with 1st place in South Carolina and just about ANY Southern state that has had a poll..that sure connotes failure in my book. All without spending as much as Mitt's yearly temple tithes! Amazing!
If all you Romney has no shot Fredheads put your money where your mouth is on Fred, why, FR will be loaded with millionaires. At 7.7% chance of winning the GOP nomination, it would take only $77 to win a thousand!
Petronski, when you put your Thompson winnings into a skybox at Jacobs Field, make to send me taunting I-told-you-so cellphone pics from your box. ;-)
How many presidents has Intrade elected? I thought so...
“I’m planning on donating again, but I’m not sure when.”
Me, too. I gotta get some of my clients to pay their bills. ;-)
“It will be my third donation as well.”
Me, too.
That’s the thing that’s going to keep Fred going. He has 100,000 folks (as of Sept 30) who have contributed on average only something more than $100. The legal limit is $2300. I think he’s getting support from a lot of rank-and-file, regular, ordinary, conservative Republican grass-roots types who can’t afford to plunk down a couple of grand out of a single paycheck, but who CAN budget $25, $50, $100 at a throw, every month or two or so.
I think that he’ll raise close to a hundred million in relatively small amounts.
sitetest
It’s funny. I’ve never donated to a campaign before, but I believe in Fred and I think this is an important election.
Odd.
“My point was that regardless of the numbers, every single poll shows that Fred has gone down in the past month (to his pre announcement numbers or worse), and that others, in this case Huckabee and Romney are the beneficiaries.”
Your analysis is flawed. In response to the pounding Fred has taken from the MSM and elitist New York crowd, his numbers have eroded temporarily, as people who are paying attention (which is still a minority) look around. But the erosion on this poll is within the MOE. Huckabee, a complete unknown with more baggage than a wagon train, has gotten a bump, which will not last. But the fact remains that Fred is in second place. He IS the conservative alternative to Giuliani, whether you care to see it or not.
Rudy has not benefited at all, nor has Romney. Rudy’s ceiling is 25%. The battle is over who the conservative challenger to Giuliani will be. Fred is winning that one and, as the others fade closer to election day, Fred not Rudy will be the beneficiary. He is a conservative that is acceptable to all wings of the GOP, which is why he will win the nomination.
Only you are capable of transmogrifying the completely legitimate observation that he has no core beliefs (based on his numerous and material flip flops) into a personal attack.
I hope someone is paying you to make such silly statements. You should not do it for free.
Ping!
I think most of the Harris Interactive polls have an MOE of about 4% if my memory serves me correctly. So it is basically a dead heat.
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