Posted on 11/12/2011 10:53:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney has a growing lead in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and almost half of the party's voters expect him to be the nominee, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Twenty-eight percent of Republicans backed the former Massachusetts governor, giving him a lead of 8 percentage points over his nearest challenger Herman Cain in the poll, taken November 10-11.
Romney was 5 percentage points ahead in a survey November 7-8.
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 percent.
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.
"As the other candidates falter, his image comes into relief," Ipsos pollster Cliff Young said....
(Excerpt) Read more at fox43.com ...
The MSM is trying to pick our candidate again. Most polls show Romney to be below Newt, who is below Cain. And, Newt has yet to experience the full wrath of the attack media.
clear lead my foot.
I only know one person who supports Romney. They support him because he is lds and so are they.
No Romney for the Gipper.
Lies, damnable lies!
If Romney got it, who do you think he would pick as a running mate? I have three in mind— Jeb Bush, Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain.
I pray we can keep Romney out.
This is the Establishment trying to ensure Obama another 4 years.
They want Cain out of there. They tried to sling mud at him and it did not work. Now they are trying to pretend everyone is for Mitt Romney. Please give me a break!
Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Condaleeza Rice or Colin Powell are my guesses.
But didn’t you know? Mitt had a ‘moment of clarity’ after he became governor here in MA! He suddenly saw the light!
You obviously haven’t kept up on his flip-flop on this—uh, I mean, his coming to a new understanding...or whatever...
Mitt Romney’s VP:
John Huntsman
John McCain
Rice
Powell
Jeb Bush
That poll is just bullcr*p. Everyone I know, absolutely hates that Stepford husband.
Stepford husband !? :-) HAHAHA! ... I love it.
The problem with national polls is that Primaries aren’t fought nationally. Plus big Democrat states with open primaries skew the results naturally towards the liberal in the race as they did before Reagan was nominated. There was even an effort to recruit Gerald Ford for a Carter rematch. We know what really happened. Any time we see a national poll related to the primary we should just dismiss it because in the end it will not matter. The state by state polling makes by far the biggest difference but even those polls this far out aren’t predictive not when you still have as much as 1/3 of primary voters or more still undecided or not entirely committed.
Romney’s high polling has always been about his low key posture. He’s said to win a debate without often saying anything at all. He avoids all but very controlled media.
Its the same effect that we get with a politician who is out of office for a while. Their positives go up because people can’t remember what in the hell they did wrong.
Romney has the math against him. The problem is that we have Gingrich rising and Cain fighting a narrative that is designed to tear him down just like Palin. What he needs to do is bring on conservative military/foreign policy advisers and shuffle his team. He needs to stop the erosion and he needs to leverage his story and his expertise more.
I've made the "lesser of evils" choice before, and watched as the GOP moved ever farther left, and away from the Constitution.
I won't follow any farther.
Let me throw out what will probably prove to be a foolish question. With all of these polls being bandied about, does anybody know what percentage of voters will not vote for Romney under any circumstances?
If we want to return the Kenyan to the White Hut, make Romney the (R) nominee. That’s my opinion. I WILL NOT vote for Romney, period.
Any poll showing Romney is in double digits is a lie.
You obviously haven't been reading the comments on FR - it looks like most of FR supports Romney - they've trashed all the other candidates for one tort or another and get so busy doing it they never bother to trash Romney. They just speak out the side of their mouths that they don't want him, while doing everything they can to ensure he's it.
Romney, Dole, Bushes, McCain-—all cut from essentially the same cloth.
Can’t we run a CONSERATIVE this time?
Please?
Pretty please?
Pretty please with sugar on top???
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