{"id":25119,"date":"2011-12-29T12:41:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25119"},"modified":"2011-12-29T12:47:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:47:34","slug":"more-of-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25119","title":{"rendered":"More Of These"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say what you will about Romney – personally, I caucused for him in 2008 (as the most conservative <\/em>option available on the ballot at the time), and if he gets the nomination, I’ll bust my ass to see him in the White House; he’s not perfect, but he’s a lot better than what we have.<\/p>\n

And the key part is, if you believe in polling (and I generally don’t, but Rasmussen has earned a bit of a dispensation, being generally more accurate than the others), a lot of other people think so too<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The latest national telephone survey finds that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters favor the former Massachusetts governor, while 39% prefer the president. Ten percent (10%) like some other candidate in the race, and six percent (6%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)<\/p>\n

A week ago, Romney trailed Obama 44% to 41%. The week before that, he held a slight 43% to 42% edge over the president. The two candidates have been essentially tied in regular surveys since January, but Romney remains the only GOP hopeful to lead Obama in more than one survey. Despite Romney\u2019s current six-point lead, his latest level of support is in line with the 38% to 45% he has earned in matchups with the president this year. However, Obama\u2019s 39% is a new low: Prior to this survey, his support has ranged from 40% to 46% in matchups with Romney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I thought this bit was interesting:<\/p>\n

Romney earns an overwhelming 75% of the vote from those Tea Party members, while the president leads 49% to 37% among those who are not part of the grass roots movement.Obama has 65% support from the Political Class [Ha ha ha! – Ed.]. Romney leads 51% to 31% among Mainstream voters<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So for all the media’s – and conservatives’, for that matter – focus on the Tea Party’s ideology, they are as pragmatic as they need to be, too. \u00a0And I like that “Mainstream Voter” figure; \u00a0it’s the key to the “Reagan Democrats”, I think.<\/p>\n

According to Rasmussen, none of the other candidates is topping Obama at this point. \u00a0Not that a poll eleven months before the election is dispositive – but it’s not chicken feed, either.<\/p>\n

After three years of a president that may well be worse than Jimmy Carter, having John Huntsman in the White House would be an improvement (although that’s waaaay too subtly incremental for me; I’m just saying). \u00a0Is Romney “the best” choice, especially for a conservative? \u00a0No – but if he’s the one we get, it’ll be a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n

I mean, let’s be realistic; if he has a conservative House and (fingers crossed) a Republican Senate, I think a Romney administration will be more amenable than Bush, to say nothing of The One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Say what you will about Romney – personally, I caucused for him in 2008 (as the most conservative option available on the ballot at the time), and if he gets the nomination, I’ll bust my ass to see him in the White House; he’s not perfect, but he’s a lot better than what we have. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25121,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25119\/revisions\/25121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}