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Head-to-Head: Huckabee 44%, Romney 39%
Rasmussen Reports ^ | October 17, 2009 | Scott Rasmussen

Posted on 10/18/2009 11:55:30 AM PDT by DanZanRyu

If the choice for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 comes down to a choice between Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, Huckabee has a slight edge.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Republican voters finds that 44% prefer Huckabee, 39% favor Romney, and 17% are not sure.

Data released yesterday showed that Huckabee and Romney lead all hopefuls in an early look at the 2012 race. Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich also attract double-digit support.

Both Huckabee and Romney are viewed favorably by 78% of Republican voters. However, intensity leans a bit in Huckabee’s favor. Forty-six percent (46%) have a Very Favorable opinion of the former Arkansas governor and current Fox News host. Just 34% have such positive feelings about Romney.

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To: HokieMom

With moral decay everywhere, Huckabee is what America’s needs now. People want Christians to lead the country. Bob McDonnell is poised to win the VA Governorship, because of his ties to Pat Roberston, education at Regent University, and his pro-God Thesis.


21 posted on 10/18/2009 12:06:37 PM PDT by DanZanRyu
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To: DanZanRyu

If Romney gets in, we’ll have RomobameyCare.


22 posted on 10/18/2009 12:06:43 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DanZanRyu
Both Huckabee and Romney are viewed favorably by 78% of Republican RINO voters.

There. Fixed it.

23 posted on 10/18/2009 12:07:25 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: BunnySlippers

Bingo. Let’s hope that the CINOs don’t resort to personal attacks if the ‘12 candidate is not sufficiently ideologically pure for their tastes.


24 posted on 10/18/2009 12:07:43 PM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: DanZanRyu
With moral decay everywhere, Huckabee is what America’s needs now. People want Christians to lead the country. Bob McDonnell is poised to win the VA Governorship, because of his ties to Pat Roberston, education at Regent University, and his pro-God Thesis.

James Carvell is that you?

ZOT!

25 posted on 10/18/2009 12:08:09 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Note to the GOP: Do not count your votes until they are cast.)
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To: DanZanRyu
Huckabee is what America’s needs now. People want Christians Conservatives to lead the country.

Had to fix it for you again.

26 posted on 10/18/2009 12:09:16 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: MNJohnnie

I agree, a troll posted this thread.


27 posted on 10/18/2009 12:09:31 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: DanZanRyu

God help us if these warmed over has been RINOs are the two choices we have in 2012. I will NOT vote for them, the GOP seems intent on running the conservatives out of the republican party. I, for one, intend to help them out if they run these frickin’ RINO phony a**hats again. Palin, Bachman or Cheney. Anyone of those three would be my choice but if they are not in the race in 2012, I will be moving to independent, depending, of course, on if there is a USA left by that time.


28 posted on 10/18/2009 12:09:58 PM PDT by calex59
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To: DanZanRyu
Huckabee is what America’s needs now.

NEVER, no way! Flip floppers are a dime a dozen!
29 posted on 10/18/2009 12:11:17 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: DanZanRyu

Very early, first names are not exactly the final front leaders. Guliani didn’t exactly come to be.

But if the republicans choose to “McCain” themselves again with these two, Obama’s second term is guaranteed.


30 posted on 10/18/2009 12:11:47 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: DanZanRyu
Hi Mitt!!!

PROOF RomneyCARE is a Disaster (and he is clueless)

“DEATH PANELS OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS”


“President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the
possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission.”


“You can’t reap these savings without limiting patients’ choices in some way," said Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess.”


“State plan may place limits on patients’ hospital options( Mass. RomneyCare )”


"Romney Visits Nebraska, Talks Health Care [where he defends Romneycare] “


"Paying the Health Tax in Massachusetts [Romneycare]
Massachusetts requires every resident to have health insurance, and this
year, without informing us directly, the state had changed the rules in a way that made
our bare-bones policy no longer acceptable. Unless we ponied up for a pricier policy we
neither need nor want—or enrolled in a government-sponsored insurance plan—we
would have to pay $1,000 each year to the state.
How did we become outlaws? “


"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
It was only a matter of time.
They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006."


A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so. “


Health care in Massachusetts: a warning for America [Romney brings Mass. to its knees]
The Bay State's mandatory insurance law is raising costs, limiting access, and lowering care.

Three years ago, Massachusetts adopted a plan requiring all residents to purchase health
insurance, with state subsidies for lower-income residents. But rather than creating a
utopia of high-quality affordable healthcare, the result has been the exact opposite –
skyrocketing costs, worsened access, and lower quality care."


"‘Severe’ doc shortage seen hiking wait time
“The shortage is getting more severe”"


“Health costs to rise again.( RomneyCare )
The state’s major health insurers plan to raise premiums by about 10 percent next year,
prompting many employers to reduce benefits and shift additional costs to workers.”


“Nation’s ill-advised to follow Mass. plan [Health plan a failure]
September 17, 2009 The canary is dead.
Massachusetts, the model for the ObamaCare universal insurance plan, is the canary in
the health care coal mine. Yesterday, its obit appeared on the front page of both The Wall
Street Journal and The Boston Globe-Democrat “


"Bay State Insurance Premiums Highest in Country - Boston Globe August 22, 2009
Massachusetts has the most expensive family health insurance premiums in the country,
according to a new analysis that highlights the state’s challenge in trying to rein in medical costs
40 percent higher than in 2003. Over the same period, premiums nationwide rose an average of 33 percent..."


"Massachusetts: the laboratory for ObamaCare“


"Massachusetts' Obama-like reforms increase health costs, wait times [RomneyCare]
Premiums are growing 21 to 46 percent faster than the national average"


"Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs (RomneyCare)
A 10-member Massachusetts state healthcare advisory board unanimously recommended
that the state begin rationing healthcare to keep the state’s marquee universal health care program afloat financially.


"1,000 cancer patients 'refused treatment'"


"Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already
ERs in Massachusetts have not seen a downturn in visits. On the contrary, it seems that ER visits are actually on the upswing in the Bay State. In fact, in 2007 they were higher than the national average by 20 percent...”


"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"


"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood.
In Massachusetts's latest crisis,
They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006
Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."


A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
… fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romney’s brainchild, Massachusetts’ “grand experiment” in “universal” health care."
"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so.
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
“RomneyCare” is threatening to bankrupt the state.“


"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"


"Romney’s mistreatments a sick man, as Gov. Mitt Romney meets a medical marijuana patient"

31 posted on 10/18/2009 12:12:27 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: DanZanRyu

It is imperative the primaries be closed and now is the time to make sure it is done, not 3 months before. If they try and pull that idiotic “open door to Republicansim” flim-flam you can be sure they haven’t learned a thing.


32 posted on 10/18/2009 12:12:38 PM PDT by fortunate sun (Fight the marxist occupation of America. Support the Healthcare Insurrection.)
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To: Carl LaFong
I came into a talk show, repeat, late last night and Rusty Humphries was interviewing someone, I didn't know the person's name or recognize his voice. I listened for about six minutes before Rusty called him by name. He made a lot of sense and said absolutely nothing with which I could disagree or take issue. Lo’ and behold it turned out to be Ron Paul! I had never had occasion to listen to him one on one before, but now I can see why there are those who like him. I know there are just as many, maybe more, who don't but if his beliefs were limited to what I heard on the interview I could support him myself.

What's the deal with him? I hear his name all the time, but just as soon as someone mentions him on a talk show the host seems to politely give the caller the bum's rush.

Honest, I had not heard him before and I'm just curious what the straight shinny is on him! I know he's not pro-Fed, but other than that I am pretty ignorant about him.

Thanks!

33 posted on 10/18/2009 12:13:22 PM PDT by jwparkerjr (God Bless America, and wake us up while you're about it!)
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To: DanZanRyu

FAILURE ALERT !


34 posted on 10/18/2009 12:13:22 PM PDT by carolina71
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To: DanZanRyu

I could not care less about Christians in government.


36 posted on 10/18/2009 12:14:41 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: DanZanRyu

Yes! Let’s repeat 2008 with the same divisive, lackluster candidates.

Second verse, same as the first.


37 posted on 10/18/2009 12:14:51 PM PDT by ellery (It's a free country.)
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To: DanZanRyu

You caused me to sin. I yelled “idiot!” when reading your post. (Matthew 5:22)


38 posted on 10/18/2009 12:14:52 PM PDT by rae4palin
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To: DanZanRyu

America’s Christian leadership doesn’t need to come from government.


39 posted on 10/18/2009 12:15:42 PM PDT by ellery (It's a free country.)
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To: jwparkerjr

I like Ron Paul but there’s a but . . . .

Sometimes he just goes around the bend. He’ll make sense and then add on a bizarre comment that just makes no sense. Doh.


40 posted on 10/18/2009 12:16:06 PM PDT by carolina71
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