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Romney Emerges as GOP's 2012 Frontrunner: Poll

By Harry Kimball| Posted Jul 16, 09 3:00 PM CDT|

(Newser) – The 2012 presidential race is heating up—at least in a Gallup poll of Republican voters. CQ Politics looks at the results, which have former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney out front, with 26% saying he should top the GOP ticket. Sarah Palin snags 21%, Mike Huckabee gets 19%, and Newt Gingrich scores 14%. But the poll also reports favorability ratings, and there the picture is different:

Palin: Here she wins, with a 71% to 21% favorable/unfavorable ratio among Republicans. Nationwide she is the most divisive of the pack, with a 45% to 43% unfavorable/favorable number. She also received by far the fewest "no opinions."
Romney: 56% to 17% favorable/unfavorable among Republicans, and 37% to 29% in the US at large.
Huckabee: 59% of GOP voters like the former Arkansas governor, while 16% would rather not. Among all voters, his numbers change to 42% in favor, 23% against.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee plays bass at a campaign event. (AP Photo)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at a Republican congressional fundraiser. (AP Photo)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney smiles after his official portrait was unveiled during a ceremony at the Statehouse in Boston. (AP Photo)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo)

Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign. (AP Photo)

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JonmarkP
Jul 16, 09 3:03 PM CDT

Wow, that's really interesting. Reply

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DJM420
Jul 17, 09 2:03 AM CDT

what surprises me is that out of all the people in the country, THESE are who republicans would choose as their leaders? have they NO others to choose? really? fucking pathetic...same ole republican m.o. rehash the same non-working people/ideas/talking points over....and over....and over lame

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Deebles
Jul 16, 09 3:07 PM CDT

If and this is a big if, he can keep it in his pants, not fire his ex-brother-in-law, keep it in his pants and not pay off an aid, and if he can keep it in his pants and not screw his way through Father's Day. I'd take the spread on the over but buy a couple of points to be sure. Reply

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kokuaguy
Jul 16, 09 4:50 PM CDT

I don't care how good he is at keeping it in his pants (the little woman is something of a MILF actually) -- he should save his money and concentrate on putting Jr. in some prominent office. Just remember 1964, Mitt. in the post Bush 21st Century, you're less electable than Goldwater was then, and Obama is LBJ with charisma and sex appeal.

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Snarfeh
Jul 16, 09 5:00 PM CDT

You forgot one thing...and not crate the family dog on top of the car....

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Deebles
Jul 16, 09 5:58 PM CDT

Dangy, snarfeh. I forgot about the dog on the top of the car! That's almost worse than taking it out of your pants. Certainly worse for the dog.

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Snarfeh
Jul 16, 09 9:33 PM CDT

Honestly, deebles, I have to say I think crating the dog on the roof of the car is worse than cheating on one's spouse. Dogs rule. :o)

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prowlerzee
Jul 17, 09 1:42 AM CDT

I'm sure your mother did her best, kokuaguy, to raise a decent son. Your dad, on the other hand, must've been a pig. Let's hope no "little women" stoop to reproducing more of the likes of you.

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Forderon
Jul 16, 09 3:30 PM CDT

Should be an easy victory for Obama. Christians hate Mormons. Reply

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kokuaguy
Jul 16, 09 4:54 PM CDT

Sorry Forde- I'm a Christain and my in-laws were Mormons. Fine people. Just agree up front that they can baptize you when you're dead and don't ever talk about religion (and in my case, politics.)

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godawgs
Jul 16, 09 5:34 PM CDT

Yeah kind of like the gays hate mormons too

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Snarfeh
Jul 16, 09 9:15 PM CDT

Sorry, dawgs, this gay finds the mormons far too amusing to hate them. I've read some of their holy book and it would make a great movie if Charlton Heston were around to play in it. I recognize they are one of the more powerful and more dangerous cults out there, but their day in the sun is fading. The world is slowly, but surely, evolving. I hate I won't live to see it, but I think that within the next 100 years, all the fundies of all the major cults will be the minorities. They are already close to being the dumb guy in the disaster movies who refuses to follow the smart guy, takes a few people with him and then dies in a way that makes the whole theater cheer that the dumb shit is gone.

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Deebles
Jul 16, 09 11:51 PM CDT

Well Snarf you got the Mormons pegged. What I love is that Joseph Smith was illiterate and hid behind a blanket to read the book of mormon to a friend who could write. Why don't those angels ever show up to the Planck's? Well, when he got to the part about polygamy, which was actually his intention cause he had a yen for the writer's sister, his wife threw off her apron, stopped with the sweeping and said, "fuck you." and walked out. She was the first non-convert. It's interesting that he was killed in Missouri--the show me state. When they saw what he was really up to they said not so much. Unfortunately, the best way to inflame the four dumb shits is to kill their leader and so it goes. Today everybody makes fun of Scientology, but back then everybody made fun of Mormons. Now, a Mormon could become president. So, it's not to weird to think that Suri Cruise has a shot.

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prowlerzee
Jul 17, 09 1:15 AM CDT

deebles forgot that the literate neighbor's wife also was irate at these shenanigans and came over and ripped the "scriptures" to shreds, so Joseph Smith had to start his fairy tale over from scratch.

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psycada
Jul 16, 09 3:40 PM CDT

Not my front runner. Bring on Ron Paul or don't bother running, GOP has no chance with the current offering. Reply

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DarkFrancis
Jul 16, 09 3:46 PM CDT

Ron Paul will turn 77 in 2012. There's no way he'll be in the mix.

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NewserScooter
Jul 16, 09 11:29 PM CDT

Ron Paul is a disaster. HE has little to add beyond economics, and is a little to libertarian beyond that.

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rajanKazhmin
Jul 16, 09 3:45 PM CDT

"Christians don't hate anybody" LOL!!

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CoronaKingsHusband
Jul 16, 09 4:54 PM CDT

I fully agree with my husband. We as real Communist Concervative Christians don't hate anybody, whereas Liberal Fashists are racist haters.

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Fondue
Jul 16, 09 6:10 PM CDT

CoronaKingsHusband, "I fully agree with my husband"

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Doctor_Zaius
Jul 16, 09 6:12 PM CDT

Shouldn't that be Kommunist Konservative Kristians?

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Shannonals
Jul 16, 09 11:22 PM CDT

Ah, I knew you were a communist at heart C/K

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emptycalm
Jul 17, 09 2:26 AM CDT

lol gay agenda? man you are paranoid.

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JMarieM27
Jul 20, 09 5:36 PM CDT

Just the few words you spoke show your hatred, as well as your hypocrisy. You are biased and ignorant. You insulted two groups, Liberals and Gays, in one sentence. Yes, I can feel the love!

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DarkFrancis
Jul 16, 09 3:44 PM CDT

Headline should read 'Romney Only One Standing After Jindal, Palin, Ensign & Sanford Screw Pooch'. Reply

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kokuaguy
Jul 16, 09 4:55 PM CDT

LL&L -- gotta check that in Urban Diictionary.

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kokuaguy
Jul 16, 09 5:01 PM CDT

We were talking about potential 2012 contenders, C-k. Are you WD from Seattle? I'm waiting for that email.

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Deebles
Jul 16, 09 5:54 PM CDT

Dear Corona: you are a much better writer than your husband. Or should I say wife? This is as confusing as my switching to Chameleon to give my dear K-guy a yank.

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Fondue
Jul 16, 09 6:12 PM CDT

I'm beginning to wonder how many accounts ck has.

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Doctor_Zaius
Jul 16, 09 6:16 PM CDT

The dems in Illinois threw Blago out. Spitzer resigned office in disgrace. Yet Vitter the Sh@tter is running for reelection and Sanford won't resign. Please, let's compare douchebags. Hey Cornhola King, do you know the real difference between a Dem and Pube sex scandal? The Dems are getting the blowjobs.

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JMarieM27
Jul 20, 09 5:37 PM CDT

"Dont make me talk about Rod, Eliot and the rest of your charming losers Liberal Fascist poser." Si this even English?

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easterner
Jul 16, 09 4:08 PM CDT

I don't know about Romney I don't think he is Mavericky enough. Reply

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prowlerzee
Jul 17, 09 1:39 AM CDT

Oh, Mittwit is a wild man. You know that Mormons are supposed to wear the "Garment" at all times (longjohns meant to prevent masturbation). But in order to win the governorship of Massachusetts Romney had to prove he was a normal guy, and not one of the leaders in a whacked out cult which promises he will be the god of his own planet after death and have a harem of wives pumping out ghost-babies to populate said zombie planet. So, wild man that he is, Mittwit posed for a photo-op on a beach....shirtless! See, the cult allows the higher ups to dispense with the rules so as to reassure the general population that they're just like normal folks. Heh.

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OrderedChaos
Jul 16, 09 7:08 PM CDT

Mitt might be a contender. It depends on how the next year or so plays out for Obama. I reallly don't think Palin will have a snowball's chance to get into the next round of elections. Reply

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NewserScooter
Jul 16, 09 11:31 PM CDT

But is going to be the fundraiser for whoever wins the nomination. She may not be the nominee but will be a player.

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Cat-Lover
Jul 16, 09 9:15 PM CDT

This poll scares the Bejesus out of me. I wouldn't give you two cents for any Republican included on the list, but to think that Sarah Palin trails the only respectable candidate who stands a chance (remote as it is) of picking up more than 180 Electoral votes in 2012, Mitt Romney, by a measly FIVE percentage points. That's scary. Republicans are so stupid that they could go crazy again, as they have so frequently in the past, that if just TWO AND A HALF PERCENT of Republicans switch their allegiance and push Palin over the top. Making all this worse is knowing that there are so few Republicans anymore, a change of 100 people (more or less) could lead to a Palin run! God have mercy on uns! Reply

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prowlerzee
Jul 17, 09 1:22 AM CDT

That is the stupidest thing I've read here, Cat-lover, and that's saying a lot, given that the majority here are juvenile sexist swine. Are you that dumb that you've internalized woman-hatred and are peeing your pants over a Palin run? You must be that dumb, since in one breath you say "there are so few Republicans" and in the next you're shaking in your boots about a possible run by a Republican woman. Why don't you go watch BBC and see if there is anything happening in this wide world which is more deserving of your concern. Twit.

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Karl
Jul 16, 09 10:32 PM CDT

If Obama has sex appeal,we are all in big fucking trouble. Reply

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Reader60610265
Aug 5, 09 8:03 PM CDT

Where did the cowboy hat go karl and how's your horse?

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kokuaguy
Jul 16, 09 10:39 PM CDT

So you're animals or what? How quickly you forget those record breaking crowds at his campaign rallies. What more proof do you need? And don't forget the charisma part. Do you doubt that? Reply

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NewserScooter
Jul 16, 09 11:32 PM CDT

That was before people knew what they were getting. At the local Tea Parties, the best speakers were African Americans who had been delegates for Obama, now campaining against him. The winds are changing direction fast now.

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prowlerzee
Jul 17, 09 1:27 AM CDT

Yeah, stuttering, yammering uh-uh-uh-bama, our first TOTUS (Teleprompter-in-chief, as named by his own staff) is sooooo charismatic and "eloquent." The only thing the crowds (which had to be boosted by free concerts) prove is that it's super simple to brainwash morons by mass marketing. Witness dry, tasteless Uncle Ben's instant rice, which is inedible but became a staple in the US by virtue of the ad "People should stick together, not rice."

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tiredofthisnonsense
Jul 17, 09 1:54 AM CDT

Neither Charisma nor sex appeal is proof of the turn out at his rallies... there were other factors at work there koko. Don't make me say what it was out loud!

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lindamae
Jul 17, 09 12:18 AM CDT

Wow! Palin had 71%? Obama is down to 37% approval rating - and dropping so that number could be lower. That must be why the main stream press are so out to get her. We can expect more "stupid" jokes so that her expertise is hidden. Rules for radicals #5 and 4. Ridicule and push the ethics violations. Reply

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prowlerzee
Jul 17, 09 1:29 AM CDT

You're right, lindamae, but buy a clue. Neither side has a monopoly on ridicule. Get real.

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emptycalm
Jul 17, 09 2:33 AM CDT

37? It's actually 58. A 2 second google search could tell you that. You are way off. What is the point of making things up on the internet where it's so easy to search the real answer?

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carol
Jul 17, 09 12:32 AM CDT

Tell you what......if the economy is still in trouble in 2012, Obama and the Democrats will not have a chance. Mitt Romney just might have a chance with all the past successes he has had in business and other endeavors ie, the Olympics. Reply

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prowlerzee
Jul 17, 09 1:30 AM CDT

MIttwit has no chance.

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LiberalJesus
Jul 17, 09 6:54 AM CDT

Right wing christians and Talibabtists who control the feckless rudderless gop will never allow a member of a cult to run for their party. They can barely stand the Jews and Lutherns in their party....a Mormon.....not a chance. The great thing about Mitt is he opens the whole door of exposure on religion and its fallacies and one day the house of cards that is religion will crumble. I cant believe it is the year 2009 and Americans by a large margin still believe in something as useless and ridiculous as a God. How stupid do you have to be. I mean I can get behind anybody who professes to believe only out of fear of the unknown after death but please.....I have offered to debate all my God fearing friends in a little friendly debate called "Lets Debate Why God Is a Fallacy" and I get no takers. Of course its hard to debate something where you have nothing to offer as proof other than "its what I believe". Try getting a degree in medicine or law with that kind of mentality. Reply

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inky
Jul 17, 09 11:20 AM CDT

Mormon + Caribou Barbie = Obama II. Reply

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JMarieM27
Jul 20, 09 5:46 PM CDT

I personally think that, whether we like it or not, Palin will be the one to give Obama a run for his money in the next election. Sure, many Democrats think Palin is not very intelligent, but neither was Bush and he got elected twice (ok, the first election was really taken). Republicans just do not seem to care about the intelligence of the President. In addition, if a woman is to ever become President, it will have to be a Republican. People seem to equate a Democratic woman with being too aggressive (which is a crock, but there it is). A Republican woman is more "tame" and therefore, less threatening. If Palin runs, the Republicans will be cheering in the street. Reply

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