We have a long way to go. Gallup GOP Poll Results from August 2007:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/28447/New-Gallup-Poll-Romney-Posts-Modest-Gains.aspx
1. Giuliani 32%
2. Thompson 19%
3. Romney 14%
4. McCain 11%
5. Huckabee 4%
The day is coming when the candidates have to go after Romney to REMIND voters who Romney is....the other day may have been too early but the time is coming when it must happen or He will get that “plurality” of the votes to win the nomination
Early polls, such as this one, should not be taken seriously.
” Romney and Bachmann are tied among primary voters who say they are Tea Party members, with 26% support each”
This is a bare-faced lie! I don’t know a single Tea Partier who is for Romney. Rasmussen can go pound sand.
Exactly what I thought when I read that.
Maybe he is getting credit for not setting himself on fire onstage.
meh
I have no idea who these Romney people are, honest to God. Must poll a lot of blue states, who are of no use to us.
It appears the conservative support is thinly spread right now. Once the process weeds out some candidates, it'll consolidate.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely GOP Primary Voters, taken following the candidates’ Monday night debate, shows Romney earning 33% support, with Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann a surprise second at 19%. Georgia businessman Herman Cain is in third place with 10% of the vote.
This is Rasmussen. As much as I support Herman Cain, I must take this as truth, wether I like it or not. I hope that after Ames, if Herman and the rest are still far, far behind the two front runners that some will bow out and let Bachmann overtake Romney.
Who are party moderates? People who would vote for an avowed Marxists over a conservative in the fall?
FWIW, a sizeable portion of the electorate is apolitical and votes with their feelings rather than their brains. Frank Luntz seems to have a talent for finding these people. I was very encouraged by the the good reception which Michelle Bachmann got from the Luntz focus group after this debate.
Deceptive poll, leaving out expected but undeclared candidates and not listing any option for ‘other’.
Once you’ve started with that, Romney is the only candidate listed with widespread name recognition. Additionally, this was taken just as the all-pervasive media boiled the debate down to a victory for #1 Romney and #2 Bachmann.
Those polled at home numbers only; how many WORKING folks are home? Not many less a few self-employed. Poll is bogus. Have to poll folks on cell phones, too. Laura Ingram mentioned this today.
NOW, THIS IS SURPRISING:
Romney and Bachmann are tied among primary voters who say they are Tea Party members, with 26% support each.
Well, at least #2 and #3 are someone I could vote for.
This ain't our Grandpa's America any more.
What we call "conservative" is what the typical 1950's American used to be except that, in regards to a lot of social norms, even we would be considered extremely shocking by 1950's standards. Think about it.
We "conservatives", like the bald eagle, are no longer very common in America. The primary is a "Republican" primary. The question then becomes, "How many Republicans consider themselves conservative?"
The bottom line is that the number of Republicans who want Romney is in the ball park with the number of Republicans who consider themselves "moderate".
The bottom line is that the percentage of all American voters who call themselves "Conservative Republicans" is only 21% of all voters because even 100% of all Republicans constitute a rather small minority of all voters.
Demographically, we conservatives are in deep, deep kim-chee.
Being a "Conservative Republican" does not amount to squat in a general election simply because 79% of all voters do not consider themselves "Conservative Republican". In order to get elected in the general election, a candidate needs far more than, "Look at me. I am Conservative".
"Hi, I am Joe Blow, white guy. I was the CEO Godfather's Pizza. Elect me President of the United States of America."
"Umm .... Yeah .... Sure, Joe ... Whatever you say."
That is the problem with Bachmann and Cain: Most Republicans put them on the Presidential table because they are conservative. Period. The 79% of all other voters consider them Affirmative Action candidates who, with their resume, are on the table simply because one has black skin and the other is a female.
The current GOP field is a disaster: RINO Romney and the Affirmative Action Dwarfs.
We desperately need a strong conservative candidate in the race and, no, Sarah Palin, who 65% of all voters have said they will definitely NOT vote for, is not such a candidate.
Bill Clinton did not announce his first winning candidacy until October of the year before the election. The GOP has until around October of 2011 to attract a strong conservative candidate whose poll numbers are not lower than whale scat at the bottom of the ocean and who can actually defeat Obama.
Oh....nash teeth....horse hocky!
There is no way that Tea Partiers are supporting a guy that implemented RomneyCare and has come out on the side of global warming. No way!
When I see polls like this--with Romeny in the lead and Bachmann suddenly right up there with him it makes me think there's more to the Bachmann-as-stalking-horse story than just rumors.