Posted on 08/23/2007 3:59:19 PM PDT by Renfield
My friend Pat Curley of the excellent Brainster's Blog reports on a new Rasmussen Poll that asked voters who they defintely would never vote for.
And the winner is...Mitt Romney by a hair:
'...The Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 44% of Likely Voters would definitely vote against Romney if he’s on the ballot in 2008. That’s a point higher than the 43% who would definitely vote against Clinton. Only one other possible candidate surpassed Clinton in this category all year (former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who is not considered a candidate at this time).
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On a net basis (core support minus core opposition) Obama comes out on top at minus 6 (29 for, 35 against). He is followed by Clinton at minus 10 (33 for, 43 against), Giuliani at minus 11 (26 for, 37 against), and Thompson at minus 13 (20 for, 33 against). These four candidates also lead the polls for their own party nomination....'
Romney comes in dead last in the net support minus opposition category with a staggering 28% fewer voters who are committed to his candidacy compared to those who are unalterably opposed.
What is even more troubling for Romney is that fully 1 in 4 Republicans would never vote for him. Recall that Bush squeaked by Kerry in 2004 when getting nearly 90% of the GOP vote. I think most observers would say that if those numbers were to hold up, there is no way Romney could win an election contest against any Democrat.
One wonders what would happen to the country if the race became a Romney-Clinton affair.
Would anyone even bother to vote?
If those are the two “options”, I’m voting for Romney...
Unelectable.
Next!
I think he’ll be better than Guliani (sp) .....
Your link is to the “American Thinker”, not “American Spectator” as you posted it.
You’re probably going to run into a few Romneybots right here on this thread.
A supporter of Alan Keyes calling Mitt Romney unelectable...hah!
Sorry...I’ve had an EXTREMELY busy day.
Maybe the moderator will correct it.
I’m not a Romney supporter, but worse than Clinton????
Don’t people know how evil Clinton is??
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Well, they call us Duncanistas, so I’m feeling kinda left out.
I am a Romney supporter.
He’s not my bottom choice.
this being the case, I now suspect that the choice will be between romney and clinton
I thought it would be fun to throw that back in the face of a bunch of RINO supporters. :-)
In any case, do you believe that Mitt Romney could win the presidency sans one in four, or more, Republicans?
Maybe Mitt will have to go back to being the liberal he always was before this election cycle, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
Romney will fall flat in the primaries.
As much as I dislike Romney, I dislike Rudy twice as much. I’ll never cast a vote for that prick.
Romney is Giuliani. He’s just lying about it.
Right here dude
I personally know quite a few Romney supporters - and I live in the big apple (gasp!). I would imagine that the one in four Repubs who say they would never vote for Romney fall pretty heavily into the evnagelical Christian group. Rather a sad statement on party affairs and affiliations. Many of our greatest presidents would now be unelectable thanks to this group. Romney could well become one of our next greatest presidents, but only if he can overcome the huge amount of religious bigotry that has sprung up in this country.
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