Posted on 11/13/2011 6:21:46 PM PST by Steelfish
Back On Top: Mitt Surges Ahead In New Poll As Half Of GOP Think He Will Be The Nominee By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 13th November 2011
Mitt Romney has a growing lead in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination with almost half of the party's voters expect him to be the nominee.
Twenty-eight per cent of Republicans backed the former Massachusetts governor, giving him a lead of eight percentage points over his nearest challenger Herman Cain in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, taken November 10-11. Romney was five percentage points ahead in a survey November 7-8.
'Most presidential': Almost half of Republicans believe he will be the face of the GOP, but critics still think he's too liberal Newt Gingrich, the U.S. House of Representatives speaker in the mid-1990s, solidified a recent rise among conservatives seeking an alternative to the more moderate Romney, coming in third place in the current poll with 16 per cent, Reuters reports. Gingrich, who is seen as having performed well in recent debates, was viewed as the second-most 'presidential' of the Republican hopefuls, according to the poll.
Whether or not they support him, almost half of the Republicans surveyed expect Romney to become the nominee to oppose President Barack Obama, a Democrat, in the November 2012 election.
Romney, who also ran for president in 2008, has been in first or second place in polls for months and enjoys by far the most campaign funds of the Republican field. But some in his party see him as too liberal, and he has so far failed to significantly boost his level of support in polls.
The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, however, shows he is benefiting from missteps by his rivals.
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The interpretation by the writer is internally inconsistent. If Newt is rising as an ‘alternative’ to Mitt, then when Newt doesn’t get the nomination, most of his support will go to Cain. If Mitt has 28%, Cain has 20%, and Newt 16%, then by the extreme assumption that all Newt’s support goes to the anti-Mitt, Cain ends up with 36%. Cain wins.
Make that “...when Newt drops out...”
Perhaps he’s “surged” from 25%, which might mean it’s within the margin of error.
30% Newt
A few percentages to Romney
Cain is the anti Washington DC candidate as his Perry.
Newt is Wash DC.
This newspaper is notorious for being wrong. Been to England many times and the British don’t trust it, either. I don’t waste my time on it.
This same poll had Romney up 5 on 7-8 November (last weekend). I’m not buying it.
I just can’t even comment on these Romney leads anymore! BS
I will not vote for Mitt if he is the chosen one.
A lot of people are going by debate performance. Most objective reviewers will award Gingrich and/or Romney as winners of almost all of the debates.
Add that to the Fox News RINOS indirectly hawking him by bad mouthing all the other candidates. And of course all the other presstitutes want the GOP to nominate the “least conservative” candidate just in case their leg tingle daddy loses. I don’t really believe the hype that says that the dimcraps believe Romney would be the easiest to defeat.
Rest assured, when/if Romney gets the nomination, the presstitutes, dimcraps, other libs, and a number of Freepers will go/have gone after him like a fly on $h1t.
Romney is not in my top four of GOP choices (Palin, Cain, Gingrich, Bachmann, and Perry were/are all better), BUT I would support him over Obama any day of the week in spite of all the negatives about him daily postulated herein, many of which I agree with.
May I see a show of hands of those who think he is no better than Obama?
Also, for those that live in “battleground states” may I see a show of hands of those that will sit out the election if he is the nominee?
Romney can’t more then 25% of the GOP vote, so where is all of this hype coming from that he is surging in the polls?
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