"Mitt Romney Leads in Iowa, Which Tells You a Lot About Polling the 2016 Primaries"

[applegrove]

Mitt Romney Leads in Iowa, Which Tells You a Lot About Polling the 2016 Primaries

By David Weigel at Slate

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/08/28/mitt_romney_leads_in_iowa_which_tells_you_a_lot_about_polling_the_2016_primaries.html

"SNIP..........................

The day after Mitt Romney opened the door to another possible presidential run, a new poll shows he has a huge lead among likely 2016 Iowa Republican caucus voters.

According to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Wednesday, 35 percent of likely GOP caucus voters would vote for the 2012 GOP nominee in 2016. When Romney’s name was added to the pool, no other candidate received double-digit votes.

This Politico story, written by breaking-news reporters, has been shared more than 17,000 times on Facebook. In August. Of 2014. How many Iowans actually support Romney for 2016? One hundred seventy Republicans were polled, and 60 chose Romney.


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[applegrove]

1. It is going to be hard for the GOP with so many running. They'll never

catch up to Hillary Clinton in name recognition. All they got is Romney it seems.

[Kalidurga]

2. They are going to have to upgrade the clown car to a van, maybe a bus...

Romney, Ryan, Rand, and the other usual suspects.

[Wella]

3. It's the name recognition thing only. Mitt's being making the rounds, but I can't see the GOP

putting him up again. There will be someone else who comes along and steals the spotlight.

[abbeyco]

4. The goppers keep looking for a 'star'

If you look at who's been on their slate in the past elections:
Mittens - 47%
Bachmann - crazy train
Cain - 999
Newt - my past misdeeds don't count
etc, etc
They wanted Fred Thompson at one point - because he'd been a 'Law & Order' guy even though his cred didn't pan out.

They cannot pick an 'every man/woman' kind of candidate simply because none of their overlords speak to an everyday kind of voter. Let 'em continue looking because they're going to end up with folks like Stacy Dash or the Lt. Dan guy - and none of them have anything but packaged talking points and some sort of 'glam' factor.

[ecstatic]

5. does anyone think his Netflix movie will help him next time around?

[Major Hogwash]

6. This is probably attributable to the fact that Romney . . .

. . . won the corndog eating contest at this year's Iowa State Fair!!

[moondust]

7. Breaking: Conservatives allergic to change.

Many stuck in 1950s. Others in 1650s. Still others lost in biblical times.