Poll: Less than half of GOP primary voters satisfied with 2012 field

[IDemo]

Source: msnbc.com

NBC News
updated 1 hour 10 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — Despite a bit of a slow start, the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is off and running. Candidates have officially unveiled their campaigns. They’ve pressed the flesh with voters across the country. And they’ve participated in debates and cattle calls.

But with about eight months until the first GOP nominating contests, less than half of Republican primary voters — 45 percent — say they are satisfied with their current crop of presidential candidates, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

That's substantially lower than the 73 percent of Republicans who were satisfied in the summer of 2007 (when the GOP candidates included John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee), as well as the 68 percent who were satisfied in early 1996 (when Bob Dole won the GOP nomination).

The frustration with the 2012 GOP bench explains why some Republicans are searching for others — like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (who has said he’s “100 percent certain” he’s not running) and even former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — to join the field.


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[AndyTiedye]

1. Because They Are All Useless Bloody Loonies!

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. The problem with their dissatisfaction

A lot of these are voters who don't think even these candidates are extreme enough.

[CatholicEdHead]

5. Sad but true

and after they loose in 2012, expect a double-down of "conservatism" come 2016. It will make this group look like flaming liberals in comparison.

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. + 2^10

What we are seeing is the result of doubling down every two years since at least 1994. If they don't get a grip, I expect that by 2020 no GOP candidate will be considered serious if they are not calling for repeal of the 13th Amendment.

[nichomachus]

3. And I'm not too thrilled with the Democratic field

[robcon]

4. That's why the president will be re-elected.

The Repugs will vote for the R (whoever.) The Dems will vote for the D (Obama)

But the independents - where the election will be decided - will not vote for the nobody that the Repugs will come up with.

[Corruption Winz]

7. How low must your party be when potential voters are...

waiting to be rescued by that dim bulb with a boob job named Sarah Palin? Good God.

The founding fathers weep.

[defendandprotect]

8. The downward spiral continues to produce more thugs and criminals as candidates --

has to happen -- we're at the bottom of the barrel -- because that's

the only way the rightwing corporate/elites can get their dirty work done!