Insider Advantage 1/22/12: Ron Paul is in SECOND among FL men...

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Poll Watch: InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Research (R) Florida GOP Primary Poll
InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Research (R) Florida 2012 GOP Primary Poll

Newt Gingrich 34.4% {41.4%} [11.7%] (9.0%)
Mitt Romney 25.6% {17.4%} [32.6%] (19.8%)
Ron Paul 13.1% {3.8%} [2.7%] (4.7%)
Rick Santorum 10.7% {0.5%} (1.5%)
Someone else 2.4% {2.7%} [1.8%]
No opinion 13.8% {11.4%} [16.3%] (21.1%)

Among Men
Newt Gingrich 39.3% {50.3%} [17.3%] (7.3%)
Ron Paul 22.7% {4.0%} [0.2%] (4.9%)
Mitt Romney 21.0% {18.4%} [31.0%] (19.3%)
Rick Santorum 3.8% (0.5%} (0.8%)
Someone else 1.1% {2.9%} [2.9%]
No opinion 12.1% {5.4%} [5.8%] (17.6%)

Among Women
Newt Gingrich 30.0% {33.2%} [6.2%] (10.5%)
Mitt Romney 28.1% {16.7%} [34.2%] (20.2%)
Rick Santorum 17.4% (0.5%} (2.2%)
Ron Paul 5.0% {3.4%} [5.0%] (4.5%)
Someone else 4.4% {2.6%} [0.7%]
No opinion 15.0% {17.2%} [26.4%] (24.5%)

Survey of 557 likely GOP primary voters was conducted January 22, 2012 for Newsmax. The margin of error is +/- 4 percentage points. Results from the poll conducted November 29, 2011 are in curly brackets. Results from the poll conducted October 16, 2011 are in square brackets. Results from the poll conducted September 13, 2011are in parentheses.
–Data compilation and analysis courtesy of The Argo Journal


If we can get these guys to each convince two friends to go to the polls, we might have something!

Once again this is more proof that men are smarter than women.

 

[wgadget]

Oh, and btw...I'm the OP and I am a WOMAN.

 

[Merk]

Ron's modesty and the blackout have hurt us among women it seems, and unrightfully so.

Let's see:
High student body president
Track star
Medical doctor
Air Force Flight Surgeon
Air Force Pilot
1988 Presidential candidate
12 term Congressman
Chair House Financial Committee
2007 Presidential candidate
2012 Presidential candidate
Married to the same woman for 54 years

I dunno cuz I'm a guy but that looks like one seriously successful fellow, the kind of credentials that would seemingly be very attractive to women. Girls, am I missing something?

 

[Mckarnin]

We need to spread this photo around:

Good strategy! Mmm, I sure do like a man in uniform who looks like a good daddy.

Per my comment in another thread. Women aren't stupid, they are just less likely to be holed up alone staring at a computer screen for hours a day and that's how most of Ron Paul's first adopters (men) find him.

 

[Diashi]

Once again this is more proof that men are smarter than women.

And after his Ex's recent confession... Our ratios have been better in other states, mostly the mid-west. This tips to the far-end, probably because of the Florida majority being what they are. There are exceptions, but I'd never disagree with your statement.

 

[KramerDSP]

I think they're all just giddy for a general election debate full of fireworks as Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama trade barbs.

Ron Paul won't get these people unless he says "Look, I will destroy Barack Obama in a general election debate, because I am the only one who can call him out on the bailouts, the wars, NDAA, SOPA, the debt ceiling, the economy, and the role of government, transparency, and more while not looking like a complete flip-flopping fraud full of serial hypocrisy."

Pause as the room explodes....

"The Independents will not vote for Newt Gingrich. The Independents will not vote for Rick Santorum. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum combined are unable to get 500 some delegates. They are not even on the ballot in Va, ___, ___, etc. They are unelectable. There are only two men on stage here who can defeat Barack Obama, and of those two men, I am the one who takes the college kids, the Independents, the GOP who believes in Anybody But Obama, and the disillusioned Obama voters in 2008 who voted for hope and change but got more of the same. I am the only candidate who can get votes from both members of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street. I am electable, despite the best efforts of the mainstream media and my opponents to convince you otherwise, and I will obliterate Barack Obama in the general election and restore America now!"

 

[RonRules]

We need to spread this photo around:

No helmet on both the kid and Ron?!! What are you thinking!!

 

[rideurlightning]

It makes no sense that woman are supporting the slimeball Gingrich over the honorable Ron, who has been married for over 50 years. I'll never understand. It can't be the abortion issue, so then what is it?

 

[anaconda]

lol @ Gingrich leading with women. who are these people?

Battered wife syndrome?

 

[Ronulus]

Why do women generally gravitate towards the biggest asshole in the room?

I've wondered this since I was in highschool.

 

[Jack Bauer]

lol @ Gingrich leading with women. who are these people?

 

[TheCaliforniaLife]

So how do we repeal the 19th amendment? haha. I kid I kid.

 

[Duckman]

lol @ Gingrich leading with women. who are these people?

I was thinking the same thing!

 

[dagnybell]

Per my comment in another thread. Women aren't stupid, they are just less likely to be holed up alone staring at a computer screen for hours a day and that's how most of Ron Paul's first adopters (men) find him.

^^^This!

 

[beardedlinen]

No helmet on both the kid and Ron?!! What are you thinking!!

rofl. I was thinking the exact same thing: How would the media spin this picture? I was thinking that instead they'd say something about Rand sitting on the narrow beam instead of the seat. CALL DYFS! CHILD NEGLECT!

 

[Libertytree]

Ron Paul generally communicates using left-brain tactics: logic, facts, etc.

In general, men like left-brain tactics more than right-brain tactics. Women, on the other hand, largely prefer a right-brain approach.

If Ron Paul wants to get a larger share of the women vote, he needs to reach out to them using the right side of his brain:

talk about the emotional impact of the downturn in the economy (remember how popular this made Bill Clinton with women? He seemed to feel voter pain) and how only Ron Paul forewarned of such a downturn and set up an alternative that would save us;

talk about the rising threat the needless wars bring to our troops overseas building other countries and to our People at home when those countries have no choice but to react through desperate means such as more terrorism, because of course a desperate country who can't defeat our military will turn to desperate acts such as these;

talk about how we're hurting our troops and needlessly tiring our forces through unconstitutional military welfare, and how this jeopardizes the safety of every American when a real threat arises (you think we're in danger now when we've been at war with illiterate insurgents for 10 years, how much danger do you think we'll be in should an actual foreign military go to war with our army now tired out from military welfare defending other countries? we need to stop defending other countries and start defending America and making our borders secure from foreign threats and invasions.);

talk about how we're robbing our children and ensuring that they'll have a future less bright than ours, and how the only path to their fiscal solvency is to make real cuts to our budget not these phony-baloney, purely-political cuts in future increases. who does that? "I'm going in debt today spending $10 dollars, so tomorrow I'll only spend $13 dollars rather than the $15 I planned." What? No! We have to make real cuts, and I'm the only candidate of any party who has proposed it and whom you can trust to follow through with it!;

talk about how these candidates who keep demanding more war and putting more sanctions on countries that inevitably lead to more war are like teenagers with toys: they're reckless and can't wait to use them. If a President's initial reaction is to shoot first and ask questions later, or as Newt eloquently proposed "kill them", then ask yourselves, "Is this the guy whose finger I want on the button? Am I really ready for nuclear Armageddon because this guy doesn't know how to take a breath and negotiate peace? That his main answer to every place in the Middle East is "kill" -- or, as the politically correct war tribes say "pre-empt" rather than a more prudent, more safe approach of "defend". As a doctor I take an oath, "First do no harm." As President, I take another oath: to preserve and defend the Constitution. We're not making our country safer by going to war, we're not protecting ourselves by harming others, we're not defending our Constitution by subverting it in unconstitutional warfare. If we're going to win, then we must not destroy what made America great; we must defend our Constitution from these kinds of rash politicians who only know how to attack and who have no understanding how to successfully defend. There's a reason I get 3x more military donations than Newt and Mitt and Rick combined!; it's because the military knows we need a commander with a true strategy of defense and security, not a reckless strategy of "kill, kill, kill" and hope no one new challenges us as we grow weaker and more in debt. Teenage boys with bombs do not make good leaders, and neither are inexperienced grown men with a hunger for blood; we need a leader with the experience and the wisdom to see a path to peace, I'm the only candidate with the wisdom that comes from experience, and the troops know it.

appealing to the emotional, the creative, is a right-brain approach. Ron Paul must do this.

I don't post very often but you my friend have made the most salient and cogent post of the year and I could not scroll on by without letting you and everyone else know about it, mega kudo's. Coming from a psych/marketing background this thinking is 1000% correct, for example let me remind you of the debate 2-3 weeks ago where Ron said that his heart bled for the boys from the wars that were returning home all screwed up and after that our #'s went way up.

Someone PLEASE pay attention to this viewpoint.

 

[Libertytree]

Mayhaps the campaign is watching?

 

[Odin]

Ron Paul generally communicates using left-brain tactics: logic, facts, etc.

In general, men like left-brain tactics more than right-brain tactics. Women, on the other hand, largely prefer a right-brain approach.

Very astute point that.

 

[Txrose4ever]

inb4 "should women be allowed to vote?" threads.

Seriously though, if that's accurate, it's horrible.

Think of all the little old gray haired ladies, who are in abundance in Florida, who may be widows, and have only Social Security to support them. Then think of all the scare tactics and stories out there about how Paul intends to "do away" with Social Security. There's your answer. He needs to particularly address this topic, because I can just about guarantee that's the issue in Florida with women.

 

[Fraulein]

How in the world does this thread have 79 posts.

We are not winning Florida.

"2nd place among men" or "3rd place among transvestites" or "1st place among dogs" doesn't matter.

1st place overall in Florida is all that matters.

Wake up.