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Mitt Romney is the only candidate a majority of both conservative and centrist Republican voters see as "acceptable," welcome news for the Republican front-runner headed into Tuesday's pivotal New Hampshire primary.
Romney was deemed acceptable by nearly six in 10 of both conservative and "moderate/liberal" Republicans, according to a new poll released by Gallup, the only candidate to poll that high in either group. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum both cleared the 50 percent threshold among conservative voters, but only garnered 36 percent and 35 percent of centrist Republicans, respectively.
Ron Paul earned a similar number among centrists, but only 25 percent of conservative Republicans thought of the Texas congressman as acceptable — lower than any candidate aside from Jon Huntsman. Huntsman, perhaps surprisingly, considering his direct appeals to centrist voters, also polled lowest among more liberal Republicans, with only a quarter finding him acceptable.
Those numbers represent a 5 percent gain in "acceptability" for Romney among GOP voters and a more dramatic 18 percentage point leap for Santorum since the last time the poll was released, at the beginning of last month. Each of the remaining Republican candidates saw his numbers fall, with Gingrich's 16-point drop ranking as the worst in the field.
Romney's cross-spectrum appeal should help him as he hopes to quickly sew up the GOP nomination and focus efforts on the general election. But the numbers also betray a dissatisfaction with the GOP field. In a CBS survey also released Tuesday, nearly six in 10 Republicans say they wish they had more options in the 2012 race.
I saw that today, which is odd to me. Ron Paul and Hunstsman are more conservative, yet are less acceptable to conservatives. That doesn't make sense to me.
Once again the Democrats are following the 2008 playbook step by step. (1) Convince Republican suckers to vote for an "electable" candidate, (2) Destroy said candidate in general election, (3) Democrat president get re-elected. Just ask Donna! :-)
I can post this just as many times as people can spawn new "electable" Romney threads :-)
I saw that today, which is odd to me. Ron Paul and Hunstsman are more conservative, yet are less acceptable to conservatives. That doesn't make sense to me.
And I've heard conservatives call those two "liberal"
An Independant moderate, i hate to break this all out to you but i think the democrats would love nothing but romney to be the gop candidate cuz they know that this candidate would make a good candidate being shot in the air, dems would have more to fear from the likes of huntsman.
They (dems) are just begging for romney to win the gop.
I feel romney is just singing the tune all gop wants to hear, but i also feel a LOT of gop voters are very, very unsure with a lot of the candidates.
I have a feeling Obama will get that second term. Imho
Only Romney and Huntsman are "acceptable" candidates to this centrist Republican. This doesn't surprise me one bit, though Huntsman is more conservative than Romney. I guess most people just aren't familiar with him.
An Independant moderate, i hate to break this all out to you but i think the democrats would love nothing but romney to be the gop candidate cuz they know that this candidate would make a good candidate being shot in the air, dems would have more to fear from the likes of huntsman.
They (dems) are just begging for romney to win the gop.
I feel romney is just singing the tune all gop wants to hear, but i also feel a LOT of gop voters are very, very unsure with a lot of the candidates.
I have a feeling Obama will get that second term. Imho
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...-swing-states/ - This poll was released in December and shows both Romney and Gingrich leading Obama in swing states. While I don't think Gingrich would still be leading, I see no reason why Romney wouldn't be.
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Understand that all the spotlight is all on romney, he's the flavor of the month so this is Clearly expected!
Dems PR machine isnt even being played right now, so take that into consideration.
Independant votee numbers are growing all the time and if they had to make a choice given the onslaught that romney will recieve from the obama machine, i think it will be a done deal.
If huntsman gets the gop nominee? i wouldnt have a problem voting for this gop. Just my 2cents
Understand that all the spotlight is all on romney, he's the flavor of the month so this is Clearly expected!
No he's not.
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Dems PR machine isnt even being played right now, so take that into consideration.
Yes it is.
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Originally Posted by Lone-Ranger
Independant votee numbers are growing all the time and if they had to make a choice given the onslaught that romney will recieve from the obama machine, i think it will be a done deal.
And think about the onslaught Obama will receive from the Romney machine. Think about how frustrated people are.
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