New Rasmussen National Poll - The Santorum Collapse

[libertybrewcity]

Republican pollster. Could be a Romney supporter for all we know.

 

[tribute_13]

SO Santorum is falling like a rock


Is romney going to get that support now, or will another anti-romney pick it up

It looks like, from the numbers, that Romney picked up most of them.

 

[evilfunnystuff]

BOOM.

Slow and steady people. Slow and steady.

 

[opinionatedfool]

Rasmussen polls are always crappy towards rp.

 

[Marky]

I wish we could catch just one of these anti-Romney waves of support.

Well when the entire international money counterfeiting/ war machine is against you, it’s not going to happen like that. Ron Paul’s support is much deeper and not the stuff of media fluff. I contend that even if he had 51% of the population supporting him, the “PTB" would continue to tell us to pay no attention the man behind the curtain.

The only true measure of the level of Paul support is how much more blatant and vicious the attacks get from the controlled media. Is it a coincidence that as the message exposing the Fed and the NWO spreads, so does the push for legislation like NDAA and SOPA? The establishment is afraid that the cat’s out of the bag now.

 

[InTradePro]

If you poll only GOP primary voters, I doubt Ron has positive favorability ratings. Furthermore, Ron has only been endorsed by roughly 3 sitting Congressman and sitting 1 Senator, his Son.

In order to win you need to have the base of the Republican Party. Ron only gets about 8-9% (of 100%) of the GOP base. His remaining support is from Independents and Democrats.
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The GOP base is fine, it's the media perspective that effects support along with those who count and report the votes.
There have been some things not been perfect but generally the campaign has been well managed. The objective from here on should be simply to stay the course.
The election so far has been volatile and ongoing events suggests that will continue with more surprises and thus large scope remains for some good things to happen.

 

[Brett85]

This was pushed here in 2008. "Ron Paul hasn't won any states, is last in the delegate totals and got 5.8% of the vote nationally, but we CAN WIN!" You're not going to win the nomination with a string of third or fourth-place finishes.

Exactly.

 

[unknown]

To what? Now Gingrich will go back up and we'll hover in the 15% range at best.

Well no. It supports our assertions that everyone but Ron Paul has had a rise followed by a decline. That we have the one consistent candidate who maintains his support and improves steadily.

 

[sanssq]

The fact is we need to point out that Paul draws the Independent vote more than any other candidate including Obama, Also Paul's favorable to unfavorable is higher than any of the others. Add that to Paul is the only candidate, including Obama where the country believes the candidates policies are favorable to the middle class (52%).

Add that up and Paul wins the Independent vote, which is larger than either Democrat or Republican, Paul wins the middle class vote, and Paul is far ahead in favorable vs unfavorable.

Simple: Paul can win against Obama. Gingrich and Santorum can't. Romney is very iffy because his unfavorable is much higher and the middle class thinks his policies will not help them.

Paul is the only Republican who has more favorable than unfavorable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11rLxqgPc9w&feature=player_embedded

Ron Paul crushes Obama and other Republicans in pro middle class policies poll, Romney finishes last: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3bskuJNYzU&feature=player_embedded

 

[NoOneButPaul]

The only way we win through the primaries is by getting old people on board.

Good luck with that... the delegates are the best shot in my opinion.

 

[J_White]

i agree that the MSM has done a good job for their masters to spread a lot of twisted things about Dr.Paul.
but the thing is a win might give the people interested in him again as Santorum is falling.
but the thing is Newt might rise again, because the war loving neocons are not able to make up their mind about the 2 anti-Romney candidates they have.
only people who start understanding the issues more deeply make a choice of Dr.Paul.

 

[ChiChiChi]

They wouldn't be "stealing" anything, and neither are we.This is how the delegate process works, we elect who gets to be delegates so that they vote how we want when it comes time to elect the nominee. Not sure what your point is.

"stealing" or not, it doesn't change the fact that EVERY single person on this board would be screaming their heads off if Ron Paul won the majority of delagates in the primaries and Romney ended up getting the nomination. Trying to deny it just makes you a liar.

I also hate to bring this up, but not only are the other candidates ON to this strategy, but they are employing it themselves. There are people (some on this very board, as well as DP, who have been selected to be a delegate, and have contacted the official campaign letting them know...and they have no intention of voting for Ron Paul even IF he wins their district. (Unless they re bound.)

And some people who are doing this are not even against Ron Paul. They are doing this just because they know if would be a HORRIBLE outcome if Ron Paul were seven to steal the nomination against the will of the people. It would mean an easy Obama sweep and all Ron Paul minded candidates for the foreseeable future would suffer for their association with this attempt.

I am not sure how many, but it is a certainty that the number of delegates that the Ron Paul campaign THINKS it has is much higher than what it does.

It really is naive to think that none of the other candidates supporters have thought about this and employed a similar strategy.

 

[affa]

You'd think half of America would have mental whiplash by now.

 

[affa]

this has nothing to do with the thread, but can someone please explain what the hell is happening here? it's obvious they know that's going to happen (ducking away)... so... um... why?

 

[Paul Or Nothing II]

SO Santorum is falling like a rock


Is romney going to get that support now, or will another anti-romney pick it up

I wish we could catch just one of these anti-Romney waves of support.

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Because mainstreamers see Romney as "more electable" & "capable of beating Obama" & this is why I've been saying for ages now that we MUST make the electorate realize that Ron's appeal with Independents & Democrats makes him the ONLY candidate that can beat Obama!

I haven't seen one electability ad yet? WHY?

The biggest meme against Paul is that he's "unelectable" against Obama which is absolutely NOT true & unless the truth is brought forward, Paul isn't going to be mainstreamers' default choice

 

[sanssq]

The only way we win through the primaries is by getting old people on board.

Good luck with that... the delegates are the best shot in my opinion.

Frankly the Paul campaign failed miserably in that effort. The Paul campaign needed to show he has only true budget plan to reduce spending enough to pay for SS. The ad should have gone like this: ".....Gingrich, Santorum and Romney say they will not cut SS, but they refuse to say how": "......only Ron Paul's Restore America provides the funding to pay those that have contributed to SS their entire lives."......... "Obama and the others? They have no answers only empty promises".

Trust me. I know a lot of retired and near retired people. This would have put pressure on the others to respond. That would have opened them up to their empty rhetoric. This was THE issue for this demographic. The Paul campaign failed to see it.

The delegate strategy being employed may be effective in some cases, but the fact is it relies on the GOP being honest and abiding by their own rules. That it is really questionable. Disputes will be handled by the GOP establishment and the local and state boards of elections. Those are controlled by the democratic and republican party establishments. I wish that the Paul campaign had asked some of us who had experience with this before they adopted this strategy.

 

[gerryb]

The delegate strategy being employed may be effective in some cases, but the fact is it relies on the GOP being honest and abiding by their own rules. That it is really questionable.

We have the #'s to completely take over the GOP, if just half the people who gave $$ competed to become committee members and chair person. We would BE the GOP establishment if we did this.