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Recap of today’s GOP debate
GOP presidential hopefuls were in Iowa today for a debate, and the Associated Press has a recap of it here. The line of the day belongs to Mitt Romney:
Romney, too, was eager to criticize Democrats. His chosen target was Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, who said recently he would be willing to meet with the leaders of Cuba, North Korea and Iran in his first year in office, and declared in a speech he would order military action to capture terrorists in Pakistan if that nation’s president did not.
“I mean, in one week he went from saying he’s going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he’s going to bomb our allies,” said Romney. “I mean, he’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.”
Video here:
And speaking of Romney, the latest poll coming out of Iowa is good news for Romney, but bad news in general for all the candidates:
A strong presence in Iowa has lifted Mitt Romney over his Republican rivals in overall support and ratings of personal attributes alike. But his support is not strong, and likely caucus-goers overall are less than thrilled with their choice of candidates.
Only 19 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers in this ABC News/Washington Post poll say they’re “very satisfied” with their choices in the presidential contest. By contrast 53 percent are “very satisfied” — almost three times as many — on the Democratic side.
The lack of Republican enthusiasm in Iowa plays out in several ways. If it holds ’til caucus day, it’d mean lower turnout; Iowans currently are less likely to say they’ll attend a Republican caucus than a Democratic one. Low turnout could hurt candidates who do less well in the conservative Republican base, notably Rudy Giuliani.
But the lack of a spark also means there’s plenty of room for preferences in Iowa to shift. Just 41 percent of Romney’s backers support him “strongly,” and across all the Republican candidates, strong support runs to just 46 percent. Strong support on the Democratic side in Iowa is 10 points higher, peaking at 60 percent for Hillary Clinton.
As things stand, 26 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers support Romney, with Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson — who’s not yet formally announced his candidacy, or campaigned in the state — at 14 and 13 percent, respectively. John McCain and Mike Huckabee have eight percent support apiece.
Recalculating on the basis of second choice brings Romney and Giuliani closer — to 20 and 18 percent, respectively — with Thompson unchanged at 13 percent.
Here’s the PDF document on the questions asked and the results.
Looks like a lot of commentary already on the debate, primarily from the left, so far today. More GOPers are likely to comment on it later, once they’re home from church and have had Sunday lunch …
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As far as the poll that shows only 19% of republicans being very satisfied, and 53% of dems being very satisfied, assuming it was fairly done and a representative sample, it just shows dems are eaisier to please than republicans.
I think Romney looks best, and don’t see anyone on the dem side that I would want to vote for.
They could’ve been like me and went to the late service.
Ah yes, “Dr.Strangelove” and General Jack D.Ripper. Obama must be the first US Presidential candidate in history to cause a flag-burning, anti-American demonstration abroad months before the primary!
I was thinking more along the lines of Hiliary for the Ripper role.
Now, who would Breck Girl play?
The Thomas Sowell quote at the top of your page best describes the status quo’s response to Ron Paul’s message. Peace & Liberty from oppressive gov’t.
I don’t think the lukewarm support is necessarily bad news in general for the eventual GOP candidate. It’s true that it will mean a light turnout for the primaries and caucuses, but regardless of who gets the nomination, the base is bound to come home when presented with a choice of Romney/Guiliani/Thompson against Hillary or Obama.
I’m not completely sold on Romney, but he and Mike Huckabee have had the best and sharpest comments of the campaign so far. I wish President Bush could go on the offense more and smack the opposition down with lines like this one…he’s been too passive for my taste. If he did, my guess is that he and the WOT would have more public support right now.
A fool and their money are easily parted. These are the same guys who suffered “buyers” remorse over John Kerry. All they really care about is “gitin’” rid of GW and “beatin’” the evil Repubs. You could put anyone in as nominee and the these Dems would be satisfied. But once they do pick a nominee I pity da fool. The Dem party is falling apart from all the stress from the multitude of directions it is presently going. – Lorica
Also Cindy, I would love to support Ron Paul. His beliefs on taxes and mine are very comparable. His belief that we need to be more responsible in Gov is mine too (I work in Army Accounting). His belief that we need to get out of Iraq and damn the reprecutions, are totally unacceptable. So much so that the rest of his message is lost. It is pointless to remove our troops, only to create an international crisis and have the UN decide that a Peace Keeping force will need to go back in. It is my firm belief that we need to present a united front around the strategy of the surge, and know that this is going to work. – Lorica
Oh, they’re freeping everything today. I posted a couple of clips on You Tube and had to shut down the comments, because they went ape-s##t over my title (Ron Paul Speaks Truth To Kooks). They’ve been sending me emails all day long. Lesson? You want blog traffic, insult their hero. lol
Ron Paul creeps me out. If I understand the man correctly he is completely isolationist and his attitudes toward issues like health care are completely out of the mainstream. Like it or not, Medicare is here to stay. People who are still arguing about whether or not we should keep Social Security and Medicare and the Drug Prescription program might as well hang it up. People want that kind of assistance for themselves for themselves and their family and as far as they are concerned that is why they pay taxes.
Might as well vote for a libertarian/populist. That way you can screw the old, the poor, the rich and the foreigners all at the same time.
I think that the Republicans are just a lot more likely to bitch about the choice, that is why the numbers are low. The Democrats are a lot more likely to support their candidates, no matter what.