Monday Open Thread [2.13.12]
Mitt Romney under-whelmingly won the Maine Caucuses on Saturday, but that news was overshadowed by Whitney Houston’s death. Although now it seems that Ron Paul could pull a Rick Santorum and win Maine after all. Here are the polls that came out during the weekend. Santorum has stormed into the lead in one recent national poll.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY – PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (PPP): Santorum 38, Romney 23, Gingrich 17, Paul 13
NATIONAL (Fox News): Romney 33, Santorum 23, Gingrich 22, Paul 15
NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Romney 34, Santorum 22, Gingrich 18, Paul 10
GEORGIA (Landmark/Rosetta Stone–R): Gingrich 35, Santorum 26, Romney 16, Paul 5
TENNESSEE (American Research Group): Santorum 34, Romney 27, Gingrich 16, Paul 13
GENERAL ELECTION – PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (Fox News): Obama d. Romney (47-42); Obama d. Paul (48-38); Obama d. Santorum (50-38); Obama d. Gingrich (51-38)
NATIONAL (Rasmussen): Obama d. Santorum (46-42); Obama d. Romney (50-40)
FLORIDA (Rasmussen): Obama d. Santorum (47-46); Obama d. Romney (47-44)
cassandra m:
February 13th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
The GOP caves and there is one more win. It is looking like the House will extend the payroll tax cuts without their demands for offsets.
cassandra m:
February 13th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
And the NJ Senate passes marriage equality, 24-16.
socialistic ben:
February 13th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
But Fatty Mc FatFat already said he would veto it and instead leave it up to the Oompa Loompas of south jersey to decide.
jpconnorjr:
February 13th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Pew Poll Just up on NPR:
Obama leads the three Republican presidential candidates Pew tested him against (what, no Ron Paul?) in head-to-head general-election match-ups.
Obama led Romney by eight points in the recent poll compared with a two-point lead in November. The president led Santorum by 10 points and Gingrich by 18 points.
Jason330:
February 13th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Yeah. President Obama is now trading at $0.60 at both Iowa and Intrade. That is probably close to a ceiling that will hold for a while. Around the Republican convention it will come down a few points, then, barring anything crazy, will climb from then until November.
Joanne Christian:
February 13th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Hey DD–Romney in attendance tonite at standing room only crowd at the Convention Center in Arizona–the kids can’t get in—they think he’s going to pull it off.
MJ:
February 13th, 2012 at 8:12 pm
It seems that our RWNJ brethren at DP have copied our week in politics updates.
And if you really want to be scared, Don Ayotte has a website up.