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Gov. Tim Pawlenty
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is the top choice of roughly one third of Republicans for the presidential nomination in 2012, according to a new CNN poll. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was the second most popular choice, with support from 25 percent of Republican voters, while former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney drew backing from 21 percent of respondents. Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty trailed well behind with support from just five percent of likely Republican voters.
The CNN results echo those of a poll conducted earlier this month by Rassmussen Reports, which found Pawlenty with support from four percent of those surveyed. Pawlenty has been criss-crossing the country and making frequent cable talk-show appearances while testing the waters for a potential 2012 presidential bid.
The CNN poll had a sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points for questions asked only of Republicans.
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Comment posted October 28, 2009 @ 10:52 am
So how did the Independents poll? That is what will decide this issue.
Comment posted October 28, 2009 @ 10:34 pm
Romney probably won’t do as well this time out as he did in 2008. He’s got Massachusetts-care hanging around his neck like a millstone & he was a TARP cheerleader – neither one of those supports the idea of him as an economic wizkid politically.
Things could change, but his opponents will probably be able to do a lot of damage with those in our current conservative resurgence.
I like Palin, but she has to find a way to overcome her Dan Quayle stigma in order to get anywhere and 2012 is, in all probability, not enough time.
Pawlenty is a nice guy, but not exactly charismatic. Plus, he looks to be the guy that the GOP hierarchy may be pushing this time out – that could be the kiss of death with our TEA party climate right now.
I’m convinced that Huckabee is the best shot we’ve got at taking the WH back.
Having researched his time in AR for myself rather than accepting the word of people with ulterior motives, it is clear that Huckabee is a man with an impeccable executive resume.
He cleared out a lot of the bureaucratic bloat & improved efficiency in AR – no mean feat. He IS a fiscal conservative, but he is a reasoned one. Despite the smears, the only things he spent money on were exactly the things people WANT the govt. to attend to – things like improving children’s health, education & necessary road improvements.
He took AR from a major deficit to an almost $3bn surplus while he was governor – and he did it while working with a Democrat legislature who hated him so much that they nailed his office door to the chamber shut!
Here’s a guy who can handle partisanship because he has dealt with it at its worst! Not by using nuclear options, but by winning enough of them over to get them all to work together when it mattered.
So many of today’s pols encourage the division & animus between us because they can profit politically by it. Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a guy in office who actually wanted to see our country united and had the ability to initiate that healing?
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