Is there a Republican candidate you like?

[maiforpeace]

Strange poll ...A bit like asking if you think Fred West is better than Rosemary .

There is the "they all suck" option.

[Drewish]

I am wondering how many people here are familiar with the candidates. Perhaps I should have added an, "I don't know" option. As it stands anyone who has a negative emotional react to the Republican party and has not followed the primary would probably select the last option.

[FBM]

I am wondering how many people here are familiar with the candidates. Perhaps I should have added an, "I don't know" option. As it stands anyone who has a negative emotional react to the Republican party and has not followed the primary would probably select the last option.

As would those who had followed the primary...

j/k All politicians suck. It's a requirement of seeking public office.

[maiforpeace]

I am wondering how many people here are familiar with the candidates.

Not many Brits I would expect.

[Ian]

I like Perry, Bachmann, Cain, Santorum, Palin, Paul and Gingrich.

I like them because if any one of them clinched the nomination, that would mean 2012 would be the biggest Democratic landslide since 1964. Maybe bigger. Obama could win sixty or seventy states against one of them.

In all seriousness, I think the nominee is going to be Romney. Most Republicans may not like him (implementing the blueprint for Obamacare, flip-flopping on pretty much everything, Mormonism, semi-moderate politics, etc.), but they do like that he seems electable. I hesitate to say that Romney's got an easy road to the nomination though - there are dozens or maybe hundreds of polls over these past months that consistently show his numbers in the mid-20s. Other contenders have risen up, one at a time, to put him in second place only to fall soonafter, but his numbers remain consistent. But the thing about a consistent rating around 25% despite the whirlwind of up-and-down competitors around him: it means that 3/4 of Republican voters have consistently preferred someone else.

[FBM]

I like Perry, Bachmann, Cain, Santorum, Palin, Paul and Gingrich.

I like them because if any one of them clinched the nomination, that would mean 2012 would be the biggest Democratic landslide since 1964. Maybe bigger. Obama could win sixty or seventy states against one of them.

In all seriousness, I think the nominee is going to be Romney. Most Republicans may not like him (implementing the blueprint for Obamacare, flip-flopping on pretty much everything, Mormonism, semi-moderate politics, etc.), but they do like that he seems electable. I hesitate to say that Romney's got an easy road to the nomination though - there are dozens or maybe hundreds of polls over these past months that consistently show his numbers in the mid-20s. Other contenders have risen up, one at a time, to put him in second place only to fall soonafter, but his numbers remain consistent. But the thing about a consistent rating around 25% despite the whirlwind of up-and-down competitors around him: it means that 3/4 of Republican voters have consistently preferred someone else.

If Romney were to win the nomination, then Mormon whacked-out beliefs would dominate the headlines for quite some time. I doubt most Republicans could fall into line behind that line of

[Svartalf]

I am wondering how many people here are familiar with the candidates. Perhaps I should have added an, "I don't know" option. As it stands anyone who has a negative emotional react to the Republican party and has not followed the primary would probably select the last option.

Funny, I'm not quite familiar with all of them, but most.
Plus, general knowledge of the Republican party and politicians should be sufficient.

[Posse Comitatus]

HUNTSMAN ♥

[Svartalf]

If Romney were to win the nomination, then Mormon whacked-out beliefs would dominate the headlines for quite some time. I doubt most Republicans could fall into line behind that line of

There are so many of them backing the quite as whacked out beliefs of evangelicals or other fundie chretins already...
Of course, those wouldn't back a heretic like a mormon anyway, but morms are not the only wacky guys..

[Ian]

I like Perry, Bachmann, Cain, Santorum, Palin, Paul and Gingrich.

I like them because if any one of them clinched the nomination, that would mean 2012 would be the biggest Democratic landslide since 1964. Maybe bigger. Obama could win sixty or seventy states against one of them.

In all seriousness, I think the nominee is going to be Romney. Most Republicans may not like him (implementing the blueprint for Obamacare, flip-flopping on pretty much everything, Mormonism, semi-moderate politics, etc.), but they do like that he seems electable. I hesitate to say that Romney's got an easy road to the nomination though - there are dozens or maybe hundreds of polls over these past months that consistently show his numbers in the mid-20s. Other contenders have risen up, one at a time, to put him in second place only to fall soonafter, but his numbers remain consistent. But the thing about a consistent rating around 25% despite the whirlwind of up-and-down competitors around him: it means that 3/4 of Republican voters have consistently preferred someone else.

If Romney were to win the nomination, then Mormon whacked-out beliefs would dominate the headlines for quite some time. I doubt most Republicans could fall into line behind that line of

Which is why I hesitate to say that it's going to be him. Especially considering Republican primary voters tend to be especially conservative/Christian. Unless his campaign goes into panic mode, he's not going to work for Iowa much less win there. He probably won't win South Carolina, and even if he takes New Hampshire, that's no big deal for him: New Hampshire is relatively moderate and he used to govern next door anyway. Still, the nomination is his to lose because everyone else except Huntsman is an electoral joke. And Huntsman has single digit ratings if he's lucky - this guy is smart, pragmatic, and unlike Romney does not have a history of flip-flopping. But Republicans hate him because not only is he also Mormon, he (gasp!) worked for the Obama administration as Ambassador to China.

[Feck]

Strange poll ...A bit like asking if you think Fred West is better than Rosemary .

There is the "they all suck" option.

I don't think that expresses my opinion......... adequately

[maiforpeace]

I am wondering how many people here are familiar with the candidates. Perhaps I should have added an, "I don't know" option. As it stands anyone who has a negative emotional react to the Republican party and has not followed the primary would probably select the last option.

Funny, I'm not quite familiar with most of them, but most.
Plus, general knowledge of the Republican party and politicians should be sufficient.

I've found Europeans to be much more familiar with American politics than the reverse...I doubt most Americans would be able to name the leaders of European countries, much less their parties or politicians.

[Svartalf]

Smart of obie to discredit the more serious members of the other side.

[Clinton Huxley]

They all look like cunts. As a useful heuristic, if you assume any Republican or Tory is a cunt, you will be right 999,999 times out of a million. I'll take those odds.

[Tyrannical]

They all look like cunts. As a useful heuristic, if you assume any Republican or Tory is a cunt, you will be right 999,999 times out of a million. I'll take those odds.

Ron Paul is one in a million