The Competent Conservative

National Journal Magazine has a new political “insiderss” poll out today showing that both Republican and Democrat insiders believe that Romney will be the strongest candidate to face Obama.   You can see the Republican insiders overwhelmingly gave Romney their confidence. Q: Who would be the Republicans’ strongest presidential nominee in 2012? Democrats (111 votes) Rank/Candidate [...]

There has been much debate regarding who has the greatest shot at winning the Republican nomination in 2012.  There have also been many polls indicating who the considered front runners are -Romney, Palin and Huckabee.  Tim Pawlenty has also been considered, but is not showing well in any of the polling. But there is one [...]

There is a very interesting article today from Politics Daily regarding the abnormal opportunity Mitt Romney has leading up to the next campaign cycle.  With every other potential candidate, except Pawlenty for now, falling by the wayside, one would have to wonder if the universe in on Mitt’s side(I’m not a new age believer in [...]

Another new poll out today has Mitt Romney in the lead again.  This is a very significant poll as it reflects what the rest of them have.  At the bottom of this post I have included links to the rest of the polls.  Notice the polling between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama for 2012, then [...]

Populous Research New Hampshire 2012 Republican Primary Mitt Romney -50% Mike Huckabee -17% Sarah Palin -17% Newt Gingrich -13% Tim Pawlenty -3% Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads four other Republican presidential candidates in New Hampshire in an exclusive Now Hampshire/Populus Research poll to be released on Wednesday. Romney, who came in second in the [...]

Tim Pawlenty is wasting no time at building his credentials at the expense of Governor Romney.  It is not surprising that Governor Pawlenty would come out on the attack this early on, given the the high rankings Mitt Romney’s received in all recent polling.  Pawlenty has been falsely reporting on the details of the health [...]

The Corner YAF Straw Poll by John J. Miller What GOP presidential candidate do young conservatives prefer for 2012? I had a chance to ask this morning, during my talk at the national conference of the Young America’s Foundation. The audience was about 250 conservative student activists. Their views are of course not representative of [...]

Here is a Fox News poll just out today that puts Mitt Romney at the top of the polls for the Republican Nomination in 2012: * Mitt Romney 22% * Mike Huckabee 21% * Sarah Palin 17% * Rudy Giuliani 13% * Newt Gingrich 9% * Bobby Jindal 3% * Tim Pawlenty 1% The question [...]

Just after the potential candidates released the amount of donations their individual PAC’s have raised, comes a new Gallup poll with Romney also in the lead over Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin.  I expect that as time progresses toward the primary season that Romney’s number will increase.  He consistently moves forward. PRINCETON, NJ — About [...]

Rasmussen 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Survey Mitt Romney 25% Sarah Palin 24% Mike Huckabee 22% Newt Gingrich 14% Haley Barbour 1% Tim Pawlenty 1% Some other candidate 6% Regardless of who you would vote for, which candidate would you least like to see win the Republican nomination in 2012? Sarah Palin 21% Haley Barbour 21% [...]