UNH/CNN/WMUR Poll of New Hampshire - Ron in Distant Second to Romney

[Kregisen]

We finally have a poll with Cain.....4%. I guess he was never a threat at all.

Now 2nd place is very good....but it's shocking that Romney has 33% of the vote in that state, compared to maybe 20% in most others.

 

[libertygrl]

Wtf is this Romney love-fest?

I know, I was asking myself the same thing. Are these people idiots or what??? Oh, let me guess: "He looks Presidential." Think I'll go puke now.

 

[JRegs85]

Pat Buchanan pulled off the NH upset in '96....

 

[Agorism]

Buchanan lost Iowa by 2% tho so he was going in strong.

 

[Lovecraftian4Paul]

Why does Giuliani keep appearing in polls? Is there any indication at all he is going to run? It's almost like they put him in there just as a placeholder because all the other neo-cons in the game are so bad.

 

[trey4sports]

The biggest thing that could help us would be winning Iowa, and carrying that momentum into N.H. and all the voters gunning for the fringe candidates (everyone except Paul and Romney, feels good saying that.) vote for Paul as the "anti-Romney."

 

[Bruno]

Romney's hair in the lead, no surprise unfortunately.

 

[Tinnuhana]

Slightly OT: Anyone think Huntsman's entrance will split the LDS bloc vote?

 

[BUSHLIED]

Everything is going to change after the summer, with a few more debates, the field will be pretty much settled (Palin or Bachman in or out etc..), campaign money raised and reported, and ground games active and firmly in place, you'll see the polls change quite a bit...

 

[AlexMerced]

this is great, ROmney is polling too high to early, and his poll numbers are getting to close to Obamas this makes him a target of the left wing media and of plethora of Rpeublicans candidates trying to edge their way to the race.

Romney poll numbers are calling to much attention to his despite his attempt to have a low profile, mud will be slinged at him from all sides for the next few months.

 

[Billay]

New Hampshire isn't indie anymore. All the assholes from Massachusetts moved there thats why Romney is so popular up there.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Romney has spent A LOT of time in New Hampshire over the past four years and it has paid off for him handsomely. That's pretty much all there is to it. NH primary voters are spoiled; if a presidential candidate wants their support that candidate had better show up in their backyard (preferably repeatedly).

Meh, it's not ideal, but a closer second in NH would not be a bad result if we can win Iowa. We are already second in NH, so we've got that going for us, and I believe we are in a closer 3rd or 2nd in Iowa, so we really need to focus our efforts there. Don't let that discourage the Paulites in NH, though! We love you guys!

 

[gls]

New Hampshire isn't indie anymore. All the assholes from Massachusetts moved there thats why Romney is so popular up there.

If New Hampshire is so full of liberals why did the GOP take both the state house and state senate by large margins in the 2010 elections? Since then the state government has been busy reducing all manners of spending, taxes and regulations (just take a look at the New Hampshire forum on this website).

 

[FSP-Rebel]

New Hampshire isn't indie anymore. All the assholes from Massachusetts moved there thats why Romney is so popular up there.

NH republicans tend be business owners and thus a 'successful' businessman like Romney fits their script. Many of them aspire to be the country clubber type so they tend to want to mingle with party bigshots that adore Romney. State republican politicians tend to be very libertarian in their views but the federal level ones are more like the former. I remember when I was at the gop hq last year phone banking and current Sen. Ayotte walked in and sat down next to some of us to put her time in, the guy next to me about forgot what he was doing as he was in awe that she was at our table. He was going on and on about it on facebook in regards to the pic that was taken. It really stuck with me how typical nh republicans look so highly upon their federal people. Things are very different about what views are accepted in-state vs views for the federal level. Hard to explain until you see it for oneself.

 

[Badger Paul]

For all the caterwalling that RP is screwed because he said this or because he said that, I think what we're finding out is RP now has a solid 9-11 percent base in each state (in comparison to the 1 percent we had at this time four years ago). Now, to expand upon this will require good showing big upcoming straw polls like Iowa's and Florida's and the RLC. If we do well in these, the stigma of "he can't win" will be gone and we'll be ready to take off and challenge Romney.

 

[Michigan11]

I think to get past the non-electable stigma, that's used on not only Paul, but anyone besides the establishment pic... we need to get some creativity flowing to excite not only the base but bring the party to this campaign and attract others with our magnetic field

 

[Eric21ND]

It blows my mind that the Freestate Project is going on in this state.

 

[low preference guy]

It blows my mind that the Freestate Project is going on in this state.

less than 1000 people moved in so far. more results will occur with time.

 

[sailingaway]

Slightly OT: Anyone think Huntsman's entrance will split the LDS bloc vote?

Yes, since as far as I know he didn't come out in favor of TARP the way Mitt did. Frankly, I haven't looked into Huntsman much though, to know his skeletons.

 

[Kregisen]

less than 1000 people moved in so far. more results will occur with time.

I thought 5,000 did?? I've only been on the site a few times but last time I was there I thought it said about 5,000/10,000...or were those just pledges or something?