Posted on 11/21/2011 6:18:15 PM PST by presidio9
Republicans might not particularly like Mitt Romney, but they may have to learn to live with him if they want to take the White House next year. So suggests a poll released today by Purple Strategies, which surveys voters in 12 swing states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
President Obama's approval rating in the swing states is in peril -- just 41% overall and 37% among independents -- but his saving grace seems to be that voters there are even more sour on the Republican candidates. This critical block of voters gave all of the top GOP contenders lower marks than the president, which may be due in part to the barrage of negative media that Republicans have been facing as the race heats up. The scrutiny, however, will only intensify after the party settles on a nominee, so Republicans may want to choose a candidate who can withstand criticism.
Mr. Romney has the lowest negatives of the field, with 45% of voters giving him the thumbs down. Those numbers aren't great, but compare them to Herman Cain's. Fifty-two percent rate Herman Cain negatively and 22% say they definitely wouldn't vote for him. Just 10% say the same of Mitt Romney. Mr. Romney also fares the best of all the candidates in a head-to-head match-up against the president, running even with him at 45.
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So? If the stupid party gives me a choice between Obamacare and Romneycare, what choice is that? You want to stand for something, you have to differentiate yourself. Romney is Obama-lite.
“I think all the Newt bashers deserve a nice round of applause. Way to go! Now we get Romney, job well done.”
And, just what do you think Newt’s role in this whole game?
Do your homework.
*sigh* Yea, I know its anecdotal, but I have yet to speak to a conservative who will vote for Romney. It’s 3rd or write-in.
Again, I will NEVER EVER vote for RINO-Romney.
IF mitt is nominated... the republican party will no longer represent a positive force for America... she will be a second progressive party.
There are just too many reasons why some of us can never vote for romney. romney is a baby killer... I will not vote for a pro abortion communist... and mitt can lie and flip flop all that he wants... he is still a liar... once a liar... always a liar.
LLS
You are reading this incorrectly. These are seperate polls from different sources over the same period. In all of these, Cain is trending WAY down from the low to mid 20's he was at two weeks ago. He can still rally, but he is definitely not trending up this week.
Polls like this are utter non-sense this far out. They sold us this same line of b.s. 4 years ago and told us we HAVE to learn to live with McCain, cause he’s a “moderate” that can attract independents in swing states. How’d that work out for us?
What amazes me is how many conservatives fall for this line of crap every election cycle, when RINOs like Romney have a proven track record of failure. You have to go back to Nixon in 1972 to find the last time a GOP “moderate” actually won a presidential election. True-George H.W. Bush won in 1988, but that election he ran as a conservative, although he governed quite differently once elected, which explains his loss in 1992.
Bottom line-there is no reason to buy into this b.s. Let’s just agree that Romney does NOT represent the thinking of over 75% of the GOP, and work to nominate the best conservative alternative.
That depends. A strong enough conservative third party might actually pull it off. That slim chance might be the best we have. Obama and Obama lite make little difference at this point. Obama lite could well be worse, giving the RINO congresscritters cover.
“That being said, if it comes down to it, best to simply take Queen Victoria’s advice: Spread you legs, close your eyes, lie back, and think of England. “
We quit taking British Royalty advice over 200 years ago.
Thus insuring a second term for Michelle and her husband.
I refuse. It is what they have expected us to do for decades (been voting since Goldwater). They bank on taking advantage of us. Not this time. I WILL NEVER EVER vote for Romney. And no conservative I’ve spoken to will.
If they wanna scare me with Hussein, so be it. STILL not gonna vote for Romney.
If ““Republicans might not particularly like Mitt Romney” why on EARTH would we want him as our candidate?!
As I’ve said elsewhere, I don’t think ANY of our choices are acceptable. They all have problems. They all have baggage. However, I think that only Newt and Romney have a chance of beating Obama in a debate, so, out of the two, I’d go with Newt. If we go down in flames, at least we’ll have the debate of a lifetime to remember it by.
Swing with Romney.
What a double entendre, that is given his perversions.
He is up 3 points from last weeks CNN poll (14%) to this weeks CNN poll (17%). Romney has gone down from 26, to 24, to 20 in the last 3 CNN polls and has faced no scandal or gaffes.
John Adams:
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
George Washington:
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion, that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the Government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast, Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.”
Newt had to be there so that when the conservatives started coalescing around a single candidate, they would still feel they had an alternative that could be easily removed once that candidate was trashed.
If the GOP takes Romney,
the entire GOP will lose (Romney and Obama smile).
“Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?
Let us show that we stand for fiscal integrity and sound money and above all for an end to deficit spending, with ultimate retirement of the national debt.
Let us also include a permanent limit on the percentage of the people's earnings government can take without their consent.
Let our banner proclaim a genuine tax reform that will begin by simplifying the income tax so that workers can compute their obligation without having to employ legal help.
And let it provide indexing—adjusting the brackets to the cost of living—so that an increase in salary merely to keep pace with inflation does not move the taxpayer into a surtax bracket. Failure to provide this means an increase in government's share and would make the worker worse off than he was before he got the raise.
Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.
Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.
Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government's coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.
Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.
And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of “peace at any price.”
We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.”
mitt romney is the antithesis of every single point that Ronald Reagan gave to us in his above speech. Anyone voting for romney is NOT voting for Conservative ideology... they are voting for a progressive kennedy-esqe leftist.
LLS
I have no interest in attacking Herman Cain, but I will question your methods. The MOE on the CNN poll is 6.5%. Cain may very well rally at some point in the next month, but any sane observer will agree that he is currently trending downwards.
I guess we have to consider what happens after a few primaries and whom are the people still standing. Right now it looks as if Romney, Newt, Paul will be the final three with Romney getting very few of the votes which would have gone to the others running against him. I hope no one “swings” to Romney. To me that means Newt, Paul and Romney, in that order will be the “winners” going into super tuesday. I would give Romney no chance in such an event. Perhaps none of the three will have a majority before the convention. As long as Paul is in the mix, he will not bolt to a third party, which is good. It promises to be quite a convention.
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