Rasmussen and Public Policy Polling released new numbers today. Mitt Romney leads…
Romney, Bachmann, Cain Lead The Pack Among GOP Primary Voters (poll taken Monday night after presidential debate in New Hampshire):
Mitt Romney – 33%
Michele Bachmann – 19%
Herman Cain – 10%
Newt Gingrich – 9%
Ron Paul – 7%
Tim Pawlenty – 6%
Rick Santorum – 6%
Jon Huntsman – 2% (Huntsman didn’t participate in the debate.)
Romney and Bachmann are tied among primary voters who say they are Tea Party members, with 26% support each. Romney holds a 36% to 16% lead over the congresswoman among non-members. Most primary voters regard all the candidates with the exception of Huntsman as conservative, but Bachmann is seen as the most conservative.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely GOP Primary Voters was conducted on June 14, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. Likely GOP Primary Voters include both Republicans and unaffiliated voters likely to vote in a GOP Primary. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. [...]For the third week in a row, a generic Republican candidate leads President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election matchup. But while 54% of Likely Voters nationwide think Obama is qualified to be president, Romney is the only 2012 Republican hopeful that a sizable number of voters feel that way about.
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PPP Poll: Romney still leading the pack
[...] Romney continuing to hold his lead over the Republican field in a nationwide survey, even on a trial heat ballot with so-called Republican fantasy candidates like Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, and Jeb Bush.
Mitt Romney – 22%
Herman Cain – 17%
Sarah Palin – 15%
Pawlenty – 9%
Newt Gingrich – 9%
Michele Bachmann – 8%
Ron Paul – 7%
Jon Huntsman – 1%
While the rankings don’t change much without Palin in the race; Romney and Bachmann benefit the most:
Romney – 27%
Cain – 20%
Bachmann – 13%
Gingrich – 12%
Pawlenty – 10%
The poll surveyed 544 usual Republican primary voters nationwide, using an automated phone survey over the period between June 9 and June 12. That means that the results pre-date the debate on Monday in New Hampshire, of which Romney and Bachmann were declared the big winners. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 4.2 percent.
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► Jayde Wyatt
Gov. Romney gains 9% in the latest WSJ poll as well.
Lots of people who know nothing at all about Mitt making ignorant comments about Mitt over on the Huffington post tonight. Evidently, Mitt made a wise crack about being unemployed himself and looking for a job. Of course they took it the wrong way.
@Marilyn
Actually, I kinda have to give them a pass on that one. Now I like Mitt a lot, but every once in a while, he’ll say or do something that makes me cringe a bit. This was one of those moments. It didn’t shake up my support for him, and it ultimately shouldn’t matter that much, but I just hope that this blows over and he doesn’t make that joke again. He’s an immensely qualified candidate, but he still has to make his case to people who aren’t yet persuaded, and that joke doesn’t reflect well on him.
Great to hear the latest poll results ….
@AssumedName
I respect your opinion. Personally though, having known that Mitt worked for a week at a time in different jobs, such as a garbage man, I don’t hold it against him. I also was reminded by the movie Company Men that even the “high” were brought down low from this recession. He may be richer than Midas, but he is unemployed and looking for a job. That shows he has a good work ethic, if nothing else. As governor of Massachusetts, he didn’t accept one cent in salary. That’s known as servant leadership. We need a lot more of that in politics today.