2012 Poll: Mitt Romney early favorite in Nevada and Florida GOP primaries

[WI_DEM]

2012 Florida/Nevada GOP numbes

Mitt Romney's the favorite at this early stage in a couple key Republican primary states: Florida and Nevada.

Romney won the Nevada caucuses in his 2008 bid and he would again if the vote was being held today. 34% of Nevada Republican voters say they prefer Romney to 28% for Newt Gingrich. Sarah Palin at 16%, Mike Huckabee at 11%, and Ron Paul at 7% poll much further back.

Romney came up just short in Florida last time, but for now Republicans in the state prefer him to the other leading potential 2012 candidates. Romney gets 31% with Palin and Gingrich tied for second at 23% and Huckabee and Paul further back at 15% and 6% respectively.

These numbers are good news for Romney and Gingrich and bad news for Huckabee and Palin. Romney's failure to win Florida in 2008 pretty much scuttled his chances at the nomination but it looks like he could rectify that this time around. Gingrich continues to poll well pretty much everywhere across the country.

Huckabee's inability to built on his victory in Iowa two years ago was the death of his candidacy and he's not doing very well in Florida or Nevada this time either. Poll after poll shows that even though Palin is the most popular of the Republicans with her party base, it doesn't translate into people wanting her to be their 2012 nominee and these numbers continue that trend.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/

[elleng]

1. No surprise here! I'm 'betting' on mitt (and don't/won't read polls!)

[dtotire]

3. If He (Romney) Is Elected

He would be a credible President. I wouldn't vote for him, however.
He was valedictorian at BYU. Not as dumb as the other Republican hopefuls.

[AlinPA]

7. I'm still going with Palin/Gingrich or Gingrich/Palin. The mainstream republicans will not accept

a Mormon and the convention would go berserk if Palin was not on the ticket. The teabaggers and fundamentalists are running the show now.

[bluestateguy]

2. He's a Mormon

and we need to find a way to tailor that into discouraging Christian fundamentalists from turning out for him.

[bluethruandthru]

4. The Mormon Corporate Empire is a book that came out almost

20 years ago...but is still relevant. Here's a review of the book:

From Publishers Weekly
Bound to provoke controversy, this impressively researched study by two social scientists (Heinerman is also a Mormon) charges that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has developed an $8-billion financial/corporate empire whose influence on U.S. society is of concern. Once small and much-persecuted, and now widely respected, the Mormon church, the authors contend, is a "rising, authoritarian, powerful group," with some five million members worldwide, whose little-understood purpose is to supersede other religions and take "political and economic control" of the U.S. in preparation for the Second Coming. Heinerman and Shupe detail the church's diverse financial holdings (including broadcasting resources that "dwarf" those of electronic evangelists like Jerry Falwell); its "extraordinary" influence in government and military circles (the FBI and CIA recruit heavily among Mormons), where "para-patriotic" followers often feel an ultimate allegiance to the church. Chiding the media for accepting the church's carefully cultivated "benign" image, the authors argue that this crusading group, seeking to bring about a theocracy in the U.S., demands close scrutiny.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. I'm sure that's a big part of his Nevada numbers, big Mormon population there.

[Arkana]

6. I don't think you're gonna need to.

Southern Bible thumpers hate only one thing more than LIBRULS: Mormons. They view Mormons as a cult that kidnaps children.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. heh. so was giu911iani

[Bitwit1234]

9. I still say we should start a "birther" program on him.

after all if his father was not a citizen how can he be.

[Politics_Guy25]

10. My girl Sarah is doing awesomely!

I thought FL was out of reach for her but she's just 8 points back. I think she could sweep IA, NH, SC and FL now and be the nominee before Super Tuesday even happens.

Her wins in IA and SC will sweep her to victory in FL.

Which is great news for my main man, the Prez. lol.

[Yavin4]

11. Romney vs. Palin in the Debates

Wow. That would be good.

[JI7]

12. not good, it should be Palin or Gingrich

[jesus_of_suburbia]

13. I'm hoping for Palin. There is NO way she can win the general election.

Absolutely no way.

[zulchzulu]

14. Being an early frontrunner in Presidential races is not where one wants to be

It's the kiss of death politically.