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Romney takes early 2012 lead in Ohio
It’s a long way off but former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has taken a narrow lead among Republican primary voters in Ohio for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination in a poll released on Thursday, March 25.
In the survey from Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C., Romney got 32 percent support, compared to 28 percent for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and 26 percent for Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate.
Romney also led Huckabee and Palin in a similar poll in Wisconsin, where he got 32 percent compared to 27 percent for Palin and 23 percent for Huckabee.
“It’s far too early to declare someone the leading candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination,” Dean Debnam, PPP president, said in a press release. “But it’s certainly not bad news for Mitt Romney that we find him leading in state after state after state.”
The poll surveyed 400 GOP primary voters in both Ohio and Wisconsin on Saturday, March 20, and Sunday, March 21, and each survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percent.
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By Observer
March 29, 2010 6:06 PM | Link to this
This is terrible news for Romney. The two nutjobs Palin and Huckabee have 54% of the vote. As soon as one of them quits it’ll be all over for Mitt. Looks like an easy win for Obama.
By Another Concerned American
March 27, 2010 8:09 PM | Link to this
Too many in politics and the media use inflammatory rhetoric and misrepresentations to the point of lying to whip up fear and anger to promote their own power. They represent the great threat to our democracy, not those who appeal to reason. Canada and European nations use universal health care to achieve longer life expectancy and lower infant mortality than the U.S. While our country may have the most advanced medical techniques, the system which allocates care based on ability to pay does not provide as good a level of care to all citizens as is found in many less developed countries.
By madhawk
March 27, 2010 3:17 AM | Link to this
Beck
By A Concerned American
March 27, 2010 12:25 AM | Link to this
People need to realize the elite use heglian dialectic - problem, reaction, solution - to control the minds of the people, and push us further and futher over the line of tyranny. Don’t you see the left/right, liberal/conservative,democrat/republican, is a facade and a paradigm? It’s used for mind control. When the elite control you, keeping you in a lower level of vibrational consciousness so you can be manipulated and your thinking controlled. The media are corporate controlled and the tv is nothing but a propaganda machine. Hitler used universal healthcare to put his eugenics agenda in place that eventually led to the Holocaust becuase he felt his race was superior to the world. The government stages terror attacks so we all submit to their ever expanding power grab. Read your history - wake up! We are living in a high-tech police state and it’s getting worse.
By Joan
March 26, 2010 9:46 PM | Link to this
We need new fresh ideas, thus new fresh people. These people couldn’t win before let us not forget that’s why we have the administration we had. There has to be a good strong honest Republican out there just waiting to be asked. Let’s hunt. Hurry 2012!!!
By ItIsWhatItIs
March 26, 2010 5:26 PM | Link to this
Newt? You mean Newt “divorce-his-cancer-ridden-wife-so-he-can-marry-his-mistress” Gingrich? Newt “rationalize-and-excuse-right-wing-terrorism” Gingrich? Oh, please, yes!
By Wil
March 26, 2010 5:07 PM | Link to this
Newt Gingrich! He’s the man to really reform things. He’s a walking encycolpedia of information and full a good, common,sense ideas!
By Wilson Schroeder
March 26, 2010 5:06 PM | Link to this
Newt Gingrich! He’s the man to really reform things. He’s a walking encycolpedia of information and full a good, common,sense ideas!
By Dem
March 26, 2010 3:17 PM | Link to this
This is hilarious!
By null
March 26, 2010 11:51 AM | Link to this
no romney - no more politica as usual - let’s get some fresh blood
By null
March 26, 2010 11:49 AM | Link to this
we don’t want romney - we want someone who is going to make a change and listen to the people - we do not want to be stuck with politics as usual
By Mr. A
March 26, 2010 11:24 AM | Link to this
If Romney decides to run, the far right will eviscerate him in the primaries. Romney’s totally on record as supporting the health care reform bill - there are recordings of him and writings as late as 2006 saying things like: “The Republican approach is to say, you know what? Everybody should have insurance. They should pay what they can afford to pay. If they need help, we will be there to help them, but no more free ride.” In other words, the exact health care reform plan that just became law. Think the wingnuts will let that slide? Romney’s since tried to walk away from his earlier position, but that shows he has all the consistency of a weather vane, thus losing him the moderate voter as well. So, he’s going to get it from both sides — he’s history. And given how he treated his dog (the dog crate on the car roof episode, remember?), he’s already lost the pet lover vote as well.
By Czar-of-all-Politics
March 26, 2010 7:20 AM | Link to this
He voted for health care reform before he was against it. Romney is a joke. At best he might be Palin’s VP candidate. I have never seen a more craven politician than Romney. Poor republicans, Romney, Palin, Jindall and that wussy Pawlenty. What a bunch of lose bags.
By Unsure About Romney
March 25, 2010 10:03 PM | Link to this
Remember folks, Mitt Romney is the one who signed Massachusetts Universal Healthcare into law. Isn’t that what the Republicans and Conservatives have been fighting against for almost a year and half now
By S
March 25, 2010 7:50 PM | Link to this
I would also like to hear more from Fred Thompson but if it came down to Romney/Palin/Huckabee my vote would definitely go for Romney
By Arcanum
March 25, 2010 7:20 PM | Link to this
I think Sarah Palin is a total joke and a fake. My vote will not be for her. Ever!
By Arcanum
March 25, 2010 7:19 PM | Link to this
I think Sarah Palin is a total joke and a fake. My vote will not be for her. Ever!
By L
March 25, 2010 6:59 PM | Link to this
No to Palin or Romney in 2012.
By null
March 25, 2010 6:46 PM | Link to this
NO NO NO to Palin!!!
By Romney is 2012
March 25, 2010 6:25 PM | Link to this
Great news! Mitt is the right guy for America! Romney in 2012!