From the Clarus Research Group: (source – pdf)
If the next presidential election were held today, and the two candidates were Democrat Barack Obama and Republican __________, for whom would you vote? (asked of 1050 registered voters)
45 Obama, 41 Romney
47 Obama, 39 Huckabee
49 Obama, 37 Jeb Bush
48 Obama, 36 Gingrich
52 Obama, 34 Palin
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If the following candidates were seeking the next Republican Presidential nomination, which ONE would now most likely favor… (ROTATE NAMES)? (asked of 415 Republicans and Republican leaning independents)
29 Romney
19 Huckabee
18 Palin
13 Gingrich
8 Jeb Bush
1 Thune
1 Daniels
2 Other
10 unsure
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Of the following possible Republican presidential nominees, which ONE do you think would have the best chance to beat Barack Obama in the general election… (ROTATE NAMES)? (asked of 415 Republicans and Republican leaning independents)
42 Romney
14 Huckabee
11 Palin
10 Gingrich
8 Jeb Bush
2 Thune
1 Daniels
15 unsure
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Which ONE of the following do you regard as the major spokesperson for the Republican Party today –(ROTATE NAMES)? (asked of 415 Republicans and Republican leaning independents)
14 Romney
14 McCain
10 Gingrich
9 Beck
9 Limbaugh
8 George W. Bush
6 Palin
5 Boehner
5 Hannity
4 Cheney
3 McConnell
2 Steele
1 Other (volunteered)
12 Not sure/No answer
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My thoughts: Romney is within margin or error with Obama, leads 2012 hopeful, is clearly seen as the most electable in a general, AND is viewed as the party spokesman for the Republican party….. It is looking very good for Romney in 2012.
~Nate G.
Lifenews adds a bit of their own analysis
Also released today was a PPP poll showing Mitt in the early lead in Ohio and Wisconsin
7:00 PM Update: New CNN Opinion Research Poll
Please give me your best guess — if Barack Obama decides to run for re-election, do you think he
will win the presidential election in 2012, or do you think he will lose?
Will win 44%
Will lose 54%
No opinion 2%
Which candidate you would be most likely to support for the Republican nomination for President in the year 2012?
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney 22%
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin 18%
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee 17%
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich 8%
Texas Congressman Ron Paul 8%
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty 5%
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum 5%
Indiana Congressman Mike Pence 4%
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 1%
Someone else (vol.) 8%
None/ No one (vol.) 2%
No opinion 3%
Nate owns and manages a small souvenir manufacturing business. He and his wife of 12 years have 2 children. Nate has been blogging for Mitt Romney since late 2006 and is co-founder and editor of MittRomneyCentral.com.
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I want to share a dream with the world I had three nights ago…
Borack Hussein Obama was walking the streets; he was with his secret service, but walking too fast for them to keep up. It started to down pour in rain. He was lost in the rain for a moment, and then reappeared. I was walking just ahead of him and looked into a building just off the street, I saw men with machine guns inside, they were practicing their Muslim faith. I thought, “ Just because it’s a religion doesn’t mean these people should be allowed to have weapons so close to where they can attack anyone on the street, even if our country say’s, “Freedom of Religion” that doesn’t mean we should ignore the fact that they are all carrying machine guns.”
After thinking this to myself in the dream, I see Borack Hussein Obama go into the church building. As he walked in, I thought, “How in the world can our president associate or even feel comfortable going in there?” He came out smiling, and walked right along side me. We spoke, as I asked him what his thoughts were on those people with machine guns in the church, he replied up beat, “Oh they are just fine, just practicing their religion.”
He was walking fast, and I was keeping up, talking with him and asking him questions. Each question I asked, he would say, “Well, really, let’s see, well, actually and then start all over again.” As we walked fast he separated himself from the secret service and it was just him and me. I kept asking him questions as he walked around a corner with an opening, what seemed to a tunnel. It was dark, the stairs led straight down, what seemed to be glowing red but faint at the bottom. It felt like he was pulling me down with him or trying as I spoke with him, but I refrained from going further, trying to get him to stop so I could ask him my questions, but he insisted to keep moving, so I stopped at the threshold, as I did not want to follow him into that place, for it made me feel very bad or as if I was being pulled into complete darkness or an Abyss.
I walked around the front of the building to see where he might have gone. At the top of the building was a big white statue, with a man and his chariot, seemed very pretty. I assumed it was a church of some sort portraying that the statue was a symbol of god coming down to earth. The entire front of the church was decorated with Gothic looking shapes sitting amongst a garden.
Then I saw another statue of man all in red on his chariot at the bottom of the building, perceived as lower than the other statue all in white. I was a bit confused, thinking that was Satan? However, someone had shouted out, “That is Jesus Christ.” I instantly thought to myself, “Is that what these people think about Jesus Christ is he is like the devil? Is that how they perceive our Savior of the world?
Then my dream was over! I am fearful that this dream portrays the beliefs of Borack Hussein Obama, and like a sheep in wolves clothing, America is being deceived greatly.
Wait ’till the unwashed masses find out about RomneyCare.
Romney care is the first of its kind and it may be expensive. Consider this to be a laboratory of what can go wrong with state run health care, we can learn from this. Maybe the Democrats in Mass need to hire a consultant to come in and tell them what needs to be done to bring cost down.
Mass Health care was born in Bipartisanship. Democrats had a lot on influence in Mass Health care.
Romney has repeatedly said that health care reform should be left to the states. He also said that their may need to be federal reforms in order facilitate overall health care reform.
Mitt Romney is a man for our times. He has the skills to bring our country back.
@Brian
They all know – Romney VETOED MANY aspects of it, but Massachusetts’ congressional body was 88% Democrat and overrode his preferences. The fact alone that he was able to deal with liberals and STILL balance the budget is an amazement in itself. Imagine what he can do with a Republican Congress/Senate!
“”I like what we have in Massachusetts, despite some flaws,” Romney said. “But what I see in Obamacare is a very different piece of legislation — and one that followed a very different track. In our case, our bill was carried out in a bipartisan basis.”
Political analysts expect his rivals to gloss over such distinctions — and attack the general similarities — in any future campaign.
“He’s explaining the differences between Massachusetts and Washington in some very subtle and complex ways, and politics is about simple truths — particularly in party primaries,” said Jeffrey Berry, a political science professor at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
Berry noted that both laws require that people get insurance coverage, and both impose new taxes and penalties — “anathema to mainstream Republicanism. And both involve a significant expansion of government. So, on all those counts, Mitt Romney is vulnerable.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-romney-health-care,0,654619.story
Mitt Romney on Health CareUploaded by bjalder26.
Romney ? — Romney care broke the bank in MN and will be dumped onto the entire people via Obama-care. I saw very little fiscal restraint in McCain record and even less with Romney.
I was sadly amused that the MS media harped on his LDS religion in of all places Missouri, a state that had a bounty on Mormon for some 150 years. The media did not wish to compare apple to apple on spending policies.
2012 is a long way off and we need to focus on 2010. Kick every Democrats out of the House and all those running in the Senate. Social Security is now spending monthly more than it takes in each month. The myth of a “Trust” is just that.
SSN will sell it TBills to the Treasury to get cash to pay granny only it will need to sell another bond to the PRC —-
The double accounting of half a bill from Medicare will offset the billion cost of ObamaCare.
By as a female — my biggest complaint about both OBAMACARE and Romney care is that my medical record are never private. The police and others can see them whenever they wish and I and my physician cannot stop them.
Karen Livy, let me suggest you go and actually STUDY up on what Mass care is and does. Right now, it’s only 1.5 of mass budget, not breaking the bank as some want to repeat. Most in Mass are happy with it. Doctors are also happy with it as they are getting paid for their work and deadbeats are not walking in to emergency rooms with sniffles.
Huck did diddly squat in AK for health care. Palin did even less. Pawlenty? Still even less.
I suggest you get your facts and stop repeating the lies you’ve been hearing from the candiate of your choice.
Yikes! This is on Drudge right now with the following headline: IT’S ON: Pawlenty takes aim at Romney…
Pawlenty: Don’t follow Mass. lead
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/statenewengland/687559-227/pawlenty-dont-follow-mass.-lead.html
pawlenty is grasping at straws, and trying to pull a huck who proved SOME are more prepared to belive a lie, than to listen to the truth.
Chris, What did he say that isn’t factual? All he said was that without federal money, it wouldn’t be sustainable. It’s hard to refute that.
Mass care does not (and read this slowly) take federal funding. He makes it sound like Romney is the big bad boogy man, because the good people of Mass wanted something – and he gave them a good, solid plan that DOES NOT USE FEDERAL MONEY.
@Brian
Pawlenty’s state (and yours) send a similar amount of Federal money to hospitals to pay for the uninsured. Cut off federal money flow to any state and whatever system they have in place would sink.
Where would they be without the $764 Million in stimulus money that they’re using to keep MassCare propped up? What will they do next year?
In case anyone doubts what I posted Re: stimulus money, here’s a link:
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/ma-use-764m-stimulus-money-healthcare/2009-03-26
In contrast, Minnesota(Pawlenty’s state, and mine) used $44 Million in stimulus money on health care. I don’t like that either, but it’s quite a contrast. In addition, the federal government pays for about half of Massachusetts’ health care costs. To suggest that they don’t receive federal funding is ludicrous.
Romneycare should really be called Kennedycare(introduced by Ted Kennedy) or Masscare. With a 90% legislature during Romney’s governorship, it was going to pass with or without Romney. Romney only participated and patched it up as best he could with the mandates to try and control cost.
With the majority democratic legislature and Mass residents in favor of Masscare, it was Romney against the whole state.
Imagine if Obama had a 90% Republican House and Senate.
The only leeway Romney ever got was with the state budget crisis. That was the only reason he was tolerated– in Massachusettes– and elected. In the end, it was mission accomplished with a balanced budget.
I think Romney did an amazing job with what little wiggle room he had to work.
Instead of focusing on Romney’s incredible organization and economic skills–which are taylored made for the country’s problems–a lot of people want to focus on something in which he never had much control over.
@Brian
Ideally it would be great if states didn’t need the Federal funding for healthcare, but that’s just not reality under the current system. When Mitt Romney designed Masscare, he used the money already being provided to Massachusetts by the Federal government through Medicare and Medicaid. And had his plan been adopted without change, it would have actually required less Federal money than the state was currently receiving. When the state legislature was able to override Mitt’s vetoes to certain parts of the plan, the overall cost went up. Don’t forget that the Heritage Foundation was an integral part of designing the original plan. Unfortunately, that’s not the exact plan that was ultimately passed. And now after four years of a Democrat governor and legislature, it’s even further from what it started out as. I think you’re giving Mitt Romney blame for things that Deval Patrick and the 90% Democrat legislature have done to Masscare since 2006.
Once again here are the facts on Mass healthcare reform:
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