Posted on 04/28/2011 7:46:29 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Republican primary voters at this early stage of the game now give billionaire developer Donald Trump the edge over presumptive favorites Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee in the race to be the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2012.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters finds Trump with 19% support, just ahead of the former governors, Massachusetts’ Romney at 17% and Arkansas’ Huckabee with 15%. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich are tied for fourth place with nine percent (9%) each, closely followed by Texas Congressman Ron Paul at eight percent (8%). Rounding out the list are former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (5%) and Mitch Daniels, the current governor of Indiana, at three percent (3%). Five percent (5%) like some other candidate, and 11% are undecided when presented with this list of candidates.
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Thank goodness that it’s a while until we have to decide. Maybe some sort of savior will jump in.............
Ron Paul essentially tied with Sarah Palin!
WTF!
Clueless Republicans!
go Trump/Palin
The early adapters are out in force.
I wouldn’t give a plug nickel for any of them.
I’ll sit this one out, if it comes to choosing between any of those RINO bozos and 0bamao.
If those are our three choices (thank God they are not) close your eyes and pick a name out of a hat.
This is sure to bring out all the Freepers who are suffering from a terminal case to "TDS" even though he has yet to declare whether or not he is running, but never you mind, he MUST be destroyed (and stopped cold, NOW) before he has an opportunity to do any more harm or damage to Dear Leader, right?
As a good Con, Freeper, makes perfect sense to me! /SARC
"Beam me up Scotty!!!"
I am praying Rep. Allen West will run, though he says he is committed to the House.
Donald Trump is to conservatism what the Seattle Mariners are to professional baseball.
C’mon, GOPers, WTH is the matter with you?????
Trump?????????????????????????
Get your sorry heads out your cabooses and be serious here!!
The GOP is in big trouble if that's all they have to throw at Obama.
Toss a red blooded conservative into the mix and get out of the way.
God help us.
These polls are like the “experts” that pick who the best players are in the upcoming NFL draft (to get in the spirit of the NFL draft tonight). They are nice and fun to talk about. But overall, meaningless and require time to play out the truth.
At this time in the election cycle for 2008 Rudy Guiliani and Hillary Clinton were the clear front runners. What does that tell you about speculating who is going to win the nomination at this point?
IT is shameful, absolutely shameful that these are guys leading the pack...
Trump, I have no serious thought that he wants the job at all, and is just publicity hounding.
Huck and Mitt are Horrific... those two are probably the only sure fire way I can think of of getting Fauxbama a second time around.
I don’t get it, Fauxbama is SO REDICULOUSLY UNPOPULAR, that now is the time for a true ideological conservative candidate, a Christie or the like.. .and what are republicans doing? Selecting Fauxbama lite??? Unreal.
We need a really inspiring darkhorse.
I plan to vote out Obama. I don’t like the choices we have at this time, but I do care about getting rid of Obamacare and making sure we have SCOTUS picks.
HEY! Leave my M’s out of this! They trounced Detroit last night!
It’s not a surprise at all. America is starving for a leader that simply says what he/she feels, with no filter. A straight shooter. Trump represents that for millions of people who are sick and tired of politicians speaking from a script and parsing every single word.
That is an ugly poll for Conservatives, though it is still early.
Out of those, I love Sarah Palin, but have a feeling she won’t run. Besides her, (and I never thought I’d say this) Pawlenty is starting to possibly look like the best choice, on that list anyway.
He is kind of dull and doesn’t have great name recognition, but at least of doesn’t have the baggage and horrible policy records of “The Donald”, “The Willard” and the “The Huckster”.
I believe “Generic Republican Nominee” has polled pretty well againt Obama for 2012. Pawlenty might be a generic as they come.
That said, I hope Sarah runs and the party gets behind her, or someone eles emerges.
Also, I notice Michelle Bachmann is missing from the list. She has many of the same strengths as Palin, but has been similarly marginalized by the left-wing media and Republican establishment. Still, I’d love to see either her or Sarah win the nomination.
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