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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDe Nile is a river in Egypt UPDATE: "Many in NH see Romney as electable over Obama" (MSNBC)
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/07/10032418-first-thoughts-can-anyone-stop-romney
First Thoughts: Can anyone stop Romney?
By NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
*** Can anyone stop Romney? With a new round of polls, including our NBC/Marist survey, showing Mitt Romney with a substantial lead in New Hampshire -- and another poll showing him up big in South Carolina -- the question becomes: Can anyone stop Romney? Well get an early answer to that question from the two GOP presidential debates well see in the next 24 hours. At 9:00 pm ET tonight, the six remaining Republican candidates square off at an ABC/WMUR debate in Manchester. And then, at 9:00 am ET on Sunday, theyll participate in the NBC/Meet the Press/Facebook debate moderated by NBCs David Gregory in Concord. In case anyone has forgotten, the debates -- these next two will be Nos. 14 and 15 of the cycle, respectively -- have mattered. A lot. Indeed, the new NBC/Marist poll shows a combined 45% of likely New Hampshire voters believe the debates have helped decide their vote a great deal or a good amount. Thats compared with 10% who say the same about the results from the Iowa caucuses, and 20% who say the same about seeing the candidates in person.
*** Electability and ideology helping Romney in NH: The horserace numbers from our new NBC/Marist poll among likely New Hampshire Republican primary voters are Romney 42% (up three points from our last NH poll), Ron Paul 22% (up six), Rick Santorum 13% (up 11), Jon Huntsman (unchanged) and Newt Gingrich (down 15) at 9%, and Perry at 1% (down 1). The survey also shows that electability and the states ideological makeup are helping Romney in the Granite State. For instance, 65% of these voters think the former Massachusetts governor has the best chance of beating President Obama in November, and a strong majority prefers an electable nominee to a true conservative. Whats more, Romney performs better among the very conservative voters (beating Santorum among them, 30%-27%), Tea Party supporters (beating Paul 35%-25%), and evangelicals (leading Santorum, 31%-30%) than he did in Iowa. And helping him even more is the fact that there are fewer of these conservative/Tea Party/evangelical voters in New Hampshire than there were in Iowa. New Hampshire is a very different ballgame than Iowa, said Marist pollster Lee Miringoff.
First Thoughts: Can anyone stop Romney?
By NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
*** Can anyone stop Romney? With a new round of polls, including our NBC/Marist survey, showing Mitt Romney with a substantial lead in New Hampshire -- and another poll showing him up big in South Carolina -- the question becomes: Can anyone stop Romney? Well get an early answer to that question from the two GOP presidential debates well see in the next 24 hours. At 9:00 pm ET tonight, the six remaining Republican candidates square off at an ABC/WMUR debate in Manchester. And then, at 9:00 am ET on Sunday, theyll participate in the NBC/Meet the Press/Facebook debate moderated by NBCs David Gregory in Concord. In case anyone has forgotten, the debates -- these next two will be Nos. 14 and 15 of the cycle, respectively -- have mattered. A lot. Indeed, the new NBC/Marist poll shows a combined 45% of likely New Hampshire voters believe the debates have helped decide their vote a great deal or a good amount. Thats compared with 10% who say the same about the results from the Iowa caucuses, and 20% who say the same about seeing the candidates in person.
*** Electability and ideology helping Romney in NH: The horserace numbers from our new NBC/Marist poll among likely New Hampshire Republican primary voters are Romney 42% (up three points from our last NH poll), Ron Paul 22% (up six), Rick Santorum 13% (up 11), Jon Huntsman (unchanged) and Newt Gingrich (down 15) at 9%, and Perry at 1% (down 1). The survey also shows that electability and the states ideological makeup are helping Romney in the Granite State. For instance, 65% of these voters think the former Massachusetts governor has the best chance of beating President Obama in November, and a strong majority prefers an electable nominee to a true conservative. Whats more, Romney performs better among the very conservative voters (beating Santorum among them, 30%-27%), Tea Party supporters (beating Paul 35%-25%), and evangelicals (leading Santorum, 31%-30%) than he did in Iowa. And helping him even more is the fact that there are fewer of these conservative/Tea Party/evangelical voters in New Hampshire than there were in Iowa. New Hampshire is a very different ballgame than Iowa, said Marist pollster Lee Miringoff.
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De Nile is a river in Egypt UPDATE: "Many in NH see Romney as electable over Obama" (MSNBC) (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
Jan 2012
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)2. Did they even bother asking "conservative" Republicans?
that would skew the numbers back towards reality ...