He's baaaack!: Romney destroys all other potential Republicans in N.H.

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[h=1]He's baaaack!: Romney destroys all other potential Republicans in N.H. presidential primary poll (but Chris Christie leads the field if Mitt doesn't run)[/h]

• The WMUR/Granite State Poll gives Christie a first-place 19 per cent showing among New Hampshire Republicans
• But when Romney is added to the mix, he draws 39-percent support and leaves everyone else in single digits
• Paul Ryan has the highest 'favorable' numbers of the field, at 55 per cent
• Christie's 46 per cent favorable number is soft since a separate 36 per cent say they don't like him
• When asked which potential White House hopeful they would never support, More Republicans name Christie than any other poll

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[superbeets]

Chris Christie narrowly leads the pack of potential Republican presidential candidates in a poll of New Hampshire residents released Friday, but Mitt Romney crushes the competition when his name is added to the field.
Christie, the cantankerous and controversial New Jersey governor, emerged as the most polarizing name on a list of 13 politicians presented during a phone poll between June 19 and July 1.

While 46 per cent of New Hampshire Republicans like him, another 36 per cent don't. And he topped the list when GOP respondents were asked who they definitely would not vote for.
But with 19 per cent support in a hypothetical presidential primary, Christie has emerged as the flavor-of-the-month front-runner.

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Christie is in front, but for how long? As his waistline shrinks, his support in early primary states could drop as well

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Cheshire cat: Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee, has campaigned in New Hampshire for U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown, drawing fans wearing his 2012 campaign t-shirts


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It¿s Mitt: Romney emerged as the dominant force in New Hampshire GOP politics on Friday, crushing the competition in a hypothetical 2016 presidential primary matchup


All 13 potential Republican candidates in the WMUR/Granite State Poll have either fed speculation about their plans for 2016 or allowed pundits to place their names in contention.
But former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has said he will not run for president again, comes out far ahead when his name is added to the mix – posting numbers nearly as dominant as Hillary Clinton's in the Democratic field.
If he were to get into the race today, polling data show, he would lead Christie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul by a 39-7 margin.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio would trail behind with 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2 per cent, respectively.



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[superbeets]

'Look, I'm not surprised that Romney is still well-liked in Hew Hampshire,' a GOP campaign consultant told MailOnline on Friday. 'He was governor right next door, and as President Obama becomes more and more unpopular there's a sense of buyer's remorse.'
'But ultimately, he's just going to suck the oxygen out of the room and that's not too helpful to the people who are actually going to run in 2016.'

Without Romney, the second tier reclaims some of that oxygen.

Following Christie's 19 per cent showing comes Paul with 14 per cent, Bush with 11, Rubio and Huckabee tied at 8, and Cruz and Jindal with 5 percent – sharing that low perch with Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.
Ryan was Romney's ill-fated running mate in 2012, and has the distinction of being the most-liked potential White House hopeful in the New Hampshire field.

Second tier: Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio , and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush round out the main group of also-rans

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Hey, girl: Rep. Paul Ryan, who shared the GOP ticket with Mitt Romney in 2012, is the candidate with the highest favorability ratings among New Hampshire Republicans


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The affable budget hawk is liked by 55 per cent of surveyed Republicans, while just 18 per cent say they view him unfavorably. His net 37 per cent 'likeability' number is a stark contrast with Christie's 10 per cent.
The New Jersey governor and Republican Governors Association chairman has his work cut out for him, and has already started making the Granite State a regular stop on his political travel schedule.

.He made a fundraising trip to New Hampshire to support GOP gubernatorial candidate Walt Havenstein in June, just days after phone calls for the poll began. Christie will return for another fundraiser on July 31.But his image has taken significant hits in the past 12 months because of a scandal related to senior staffers' alleged use of the famed George Washington Bridge to create traffic jams in a town whose Democratic mayor declined to endorse his re-election bid.
Romney has been in New Hampshire too, campaigning for U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown.
Brown trails Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen by 12 points in the latest poll, doubling an earlier margin. If Brown stumbles in November or fails to win his party's Senate primary, Romney will be seen as damaged goods with limited appeal.
And as the man who lost to President Barack Obama, insiders are keenly aware that he might repeat his failure if he ran again.
'It's that old definition of insanity, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result,' the campaign operative cautioned.
The New Hampshire Republican Party declined to comment.

Democrats in the New Hampshire poll put former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton far ahead of anyone else, but her numbers are beginning to fade.
In January a whopping 74 per cent of Democrats polled in New Hampshire said they planned to vote for her in the first-in-the-nation primary.

Now that figure is down to 59 per cent, with Vice President Joe Biden coming in a distant second at 14 per cent, followed by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren with 8 per cent.
Bringing up the rear were Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (5 per cent), New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (3 per cent), and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia (1 per cent).





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'Buyer's remorse': As President Barack Obama's scandals swirl around him, some in New Hampshire have new enthusiasm for his 2012 opponent Mitt Romney


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[Willie99]

native of Mass always polls well in NH, especially early on

it's all about name recognition at this point. And while the average republican voter has to be more informed than the average democratic voter by default if not based on average incomes, they still leave a lot to be desired

 

[Dave007inVegas]

2010 Census Reapportionment: New Hampshire will remain at 4 electoral votes through the 2020 presidential election.

Who gives a rats ass what they think.

 

[Willie99]

2010 Census Reapportionment: New Hampshire will remain at 4 electoral votes through the 2020 presidential election.

Who gives a rats ass what they think.

because for some strange reason, Iowa and NH set the tone in the nomination process

all so damn weird

 

[Dave007inVegas]

because for some strange reason, Iowa and NH set the tone in the nomination process

all so damn weird

Here’s another thing that I’m afraid is going to happen. A dozen Republicans are going to throw their hats into the ring.

Then we will have to sit through a never ending set of debates where they all take shots at each other, accomplish nothing and meanwhile Hillary will sit back and cherry pick each and every misstep they all make along the way.

Then the Republican establishment will nominate Jeb and we can have another establishment election of the old guard, the Clinton’s and the Bush’s.

That will guarantee the same ole, same ole for the next eight years. Won’t that be lovely?

 

[SheriffJoe]

Here’s another thing that I’m afraid is going to happen. A dozen Republicans are going to throw their hats into the ring.

Then we will have to sit through a never ending set of debates where they all take shots at each other, accomplish nothing and meanwhile Hillary will sit back and cherry pick each and every misstep they all make along the way.

Then the Republican establishment will nominate Jeb and we can have another establishment election of the old guard, the Clinton’s and the Bush’s.

That will guarantee the same ole, same ole for the next eight years. Won’t that be lovely?

The entire political class is a circus.

The only way things will ever change if there's some massive uprising but at that point the country will have gone over the cliff.

Each presidency gets worse and worse because the dysfunctional unconstitutional leviathan in Washington keeps growing and become totally unmanageable from any side of the aisle.

'Progressives' totally destroyed history's most free and prosperous country.

 

[akphidelt]

The entire political class is a circus.

The only way things will ever change if there's some massive uprising but at that point the country will have gone over the cliff.

Each presidency gets worse and worse because the dysfunctional unconstitutional leviathan in Washington keeps growing and become totally unmanageable from any side of the aisle.

'Progressives' totally destroyed history's most free and prosperous country.

Lmao!! Spoken like a true nut job conservative.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

The entire political class is a circus.

The only way things will ever change if there's some massive uprising but at that point the country will have gone over the cliff.

Each presidency gets worse and worse because the dysfunctional unconstitutional leviathan in Washington keeps growing and become totally unmanageable from any side of the aisle.

'Progressives' totally destroyed history's most free and prosperous country.

For me it’s either Cruz or Paul with a lean toward Cruz, assuming of course that both will run .

I’ve seen enough of all the other possible candidates to know they are fence sitters.

I want someone who is willing to tell old establishment types in the Republican party to stick it.

I would also like to see a shake up in the House and the Senate (assuming the Senate flips in November)

Boehner and McConnell need to be replaced.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Lmao!! Spoken like a true nut job conservative.

 

[akphidelt]

For me it’s either Cruz or Paul with a lean toward Cruz, assuming of course that both will run .

I’ve seen enough of all the other possible candidates to know they are fence sitters.

I want someone who is willing to tell old establishment types in the Republican party to stick it.

I would also like to see a shake up in the House and the Senate (assuming the Senate flips in November)

Boehner and McConnell need to be replaced.

Rand Paul has definitely walked back his rhetoric the past 2 years setting himself up as a serious candidate. Cruz has no chance, dude is too crazy. Conservative candidates are not electable in the general election. And this isn't even against the Dems, this is in the Republican primary. No one wants Southern type extreme conservatives running this country. So pretty much any candidate you and Joe like will have 0% chance of winning the Republican primary.

 

[BleedingPurple]

Rand Paul has definitely walked back his rhetoric the past 2 years setting himself up as a serious candidate. Cruz has no chance, dude is too crazy. Conservative candidates are not electable in the general election. And this isn't even against the Dems, this is in the Republican primary. No one wants Southern type extreme conservatives running this country. So pretty much any candidate you and Joe like will have 0% chance of winning the Republican primary.

BINGO, the old fools don't get it.

 

[akphidelt]

The fun is already starting!!! Perry and Paul going at it. I seriously hope Perry runs... the clown show Republican primaries will be epic! Perry is the male version of Sarah Palin.


Perry took Paul's sentiments to task.


Noting "the main problem with this argument is that it means ignoring the profound threat that the group now calling itself the Islamic State poses to the United States and the world," the governor wrote. ". …This represents a real threat to our national security — to which Paul seems curiously blind — because any of these passport carriers can simply buy a plane ticket and show up in the United States without even a visa."


Perry then picked apart an opinion piece Paul recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal arguing against U.S. military intervention in Iraq.
Writing that Paul went "so far as to claim…that President Ronald Reagan's own doctrines would lead him to same conclusion," Perry said, "his analysis is wrong. Paul conveniently omitted Reagan's long internationalist record of leading the world with moral and strategic clarity."


And in perhaps one of his harshest critiques, Perry lumped Paul together with a favored political enemy of conservatives: President Barack Obama.
"Viewed together, Obama's policies have certainly led us to this dangerous point in Iraq and Syria, but Paul's brand of isolationism (or whatever term he prefers) would compound the threat of terrorism even further," Perry said.


Paul's team shot back at Perry's harsh criticism with stinging words of its own.


"60,000 children just invaded Texas, and their Governor has time to write an op ed in a Washington newspaper mischaracterizing Senator Paul's foreign policy," adviser Doug Stafford said in a statement to CNN, referring to the flood of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala surging into the United States along the southern border. "Perhaps he should concentrate on the invasion of his Southern border."


Perry and Paul each are considering a 2016 presidential run. It would be Perry's second run.


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...policies-are-curiously-blind-wrong/?hpt=hp_t2

 

[Willie99]

BINGO, the old fools don't get it.

I guess success doesn't count for much in your world, it's more about getting the inner-city vote out and trying to buy Hispanic votes with more silly ploys

we get it, we know how liberals win, we just don't want to be liberals, I can never be a fucking libtard and I'm so damn proud of it




PS: for everything in life, I can be nothing but proud. Do you think libtard nation can make that statement? not a chance in hell

you see, you and the resident scum don't get it, you never will

 

[akphidelt]

I guess success doesn't count for much in your world, it's more about getting the inner-city vote out and trying to buy Hispanic votes with more silly ploys

we get it, we know how liberals win, we just don't want to be liberals, I can never be a fucking libtard and I'm so damn proud of it

PS: for everything in life, I can be nothing but proud. Do you think libtard nation can make that statement? not a chance in hell

you see, you and the resident scum don't get it, you never will

Obama didn't need a single inner city vote to win your state. He cleaned up on the $100k+. You should move to the south. Connecticut is too educated of a state for you. You'll never get it.

 

[Coldweather]

I think Mitt will win and make a much more gooder President than Obama cause, he looks Presidential,knows a bunch of stuff and he does not dislike the white people.

Also, he is somewhat peckish for the job. These are my opinions on this here matter!