2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

Real Clear Politics ^ | 09/19/11

[DRey]

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination 2008 GOP Race on September 19, 2007 | 2008 GOP Final RCP Average Polling Data Poll Date Perry Romney Palin Paul Bachmann Gingrich Cain Santorum Huntsman Spread RCP Average 9/8 - 9/18 28.2 19.6 11.5 9.8 6.8 6.2 5.4 1.8 1.4 Perry +8.6 USA Today/Gallup 9/15 - 9/18 31 24 -- 13 5 5 5 2 1 Perry +7 CBS News/NY Times 9/10 - 9/15 23 16 -- 5 7 7 5 1 1 Perry +7 Bloomberg 9/9 - 9/12 26 22 8 8 9 4 4 2 1 Perry +4 CNN/Opinion Research 9/9 - 9/11 30 18 15 12 4 5 5 2 2 Perry +12 PPP (D) 9/8 - 9/11 31 18 -- 11 9 10 8 2 2 Perry +13

[DRey]

Four years ago that would have hurt him. Today I’m just craving someone who knows what the heck they’re doing and can get us OUT of this mess!

[DRey]

Where is your fearless leader anyway? Haven’t heard a peep out of her since Rush sent that shot across her bow on Tuesday.

[littlesorrel]

I guess you won’t get upset if she endorsed Romney. Do yourself a favor watch “ Undefeated “ to see what the political class is up against.It’s on pay-per-view.

[DRey]

In all seriousness, I couldn't care less what Palin does at this point. She really pissed me off with that little Bob and Mark (or whatever they're called) stunt. If she endorses Romney, she's finished politically, and her endorsement wouldn't help him a lick. Maybe she'll endorse Bachmann.

I assume Undefeated is a Palin movie. I wouldn't be able to sit through it.

[DRey]

Do you really believe that, that the establishment is trying to get Christy or someone else to enter because they KNOW Romney can’t beat Perry? I sure hope you’re right.

[9YearLurker]

Actually Romney and Paul are the two that have climbed from the earliest to the latest polls on that list, Perry’s two biggest leads are the next two polls tha will fall off the average.

[DRey]

I expect to see him backslide a little after his rockt to the top. I was just hoping after last week’s bloodbath that he wouldn’t be tied, or that Bachmann wouldn’t have come up. The media and his competitors have carpet-bombed him and didn’t manage to overtake him. They can’t keep it up forever, and Romney won’t get a free ride forever on Romneycare. Seems like great polling news to me today.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

B-U-M-P!!!

[DRey]

[Christie at the beach]

I saw this cartoon at Huffington— Post-they have haters over there, big time haters who get paid to post. This has nothing to do with Palin’s stances but, hey, knock yourself out from the person who says they would gladly support Palin if she were to win the nomination.

[samtheman]

She's served almost two years as governor then quit to "go rogue." That was...helpful.

And the population of Alaska is less than the population of Las Vegas. Oscar Goodman has more executive experience.

I like Palin. She has done great service for America. But the dems will EFFECTIVELY use the "she quit" and "tiny Alaska" memes against her in the general election. I know, I know, Obama had much less experience in 2008... but this isn't 2008. Obama is now the sitting president. You can't argue he was inexperienced then. You have to argue he's inexperienced NOW. And to the general election voter (not the readers here in FR, you have to forget the readers here in FR for 5 minutes), Barak Obama is NOW the experienced candidate.

You can't run a 2-year governor of a teeny tiny state (population) against a sitting president. You just can't.

[palmer]

Palin will do fine as long as she is paired with a loser like Ron Paul. But the minute they add someone with experience to the ticket, like Perry, it will be painfully obvious that the ticket is upside down.

[samtheman]

Palin will do fine as long as she is paired with a loser like Ron Paul. But the minute they add someone with experience to the ticket, like Perry, it will be painfully obvious that the ticket is upside down.

Are you saing a Palin/Paul'12 ticket would do better in the general election than a Palin/Perry'12 ticket?

[samtheman]

Haven’t heard a peep out of her since Rush sent that shot across her bow on Tuesday.

What did he say? Do you have a link? I just went to his website and didn't see anything.

[samtheman]

he really pissed me off with that little Bob and Mark (or whatever they're called) stunt.

What is that stunt? I don't know that stunt. Do you have a link?

[Diogenesis]

Misogynist RINO Perry has NO (zero) chance.
He cannot even beat Romney.
So Perry should consider dropping out.

Jealous, misogynist RINO Governors Attempt to Silence Gov. Palin
"GOP Governors Pull the Plug On Palin's Press Conference
The Republican Governors Conference Press Guidelines promised
that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would “take approximately
20 minutes of questions” at today’s morning press conference.
Instead, this press conference, attended by 150 local and national media
and taped by 26 video cameras, disintegrated into a fiasco
when Texas Governor Rick Perry shut it down after
only five minutes and four questions."

"Eight other governors assembled on the stage, all men, seemed
visibly uncomfortable with the “Palin at center stage” format.
When Perry stepped in front of Palin at the podium to announce
it was over just as it was getting started, Palin looked irritated,
and the media shouted, “You’ve got to be kidding,”
“This is ridiculous,” "Come on,” and
“We were promised more questions.”

[palmer]

yes.

[Diogenesis]

Nice cartoon. But it ignores the conservative Gov. Palin and the shameless Open-border Perry.

How about this?

. Guard the Borders!! .... "Gard a sil?"

[samtheman]

interesting

[bert]

Is the water deep down there where you have jumped in over your head?

As of this morning, Sara still isn’t

When you see no hair and pink, it’s time to stop beating a dead horse