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NRE poll – who will be the GOP nominee in 2012 (take 2)?

by @ 16:48 on November 5, 2008. Filed under NRE Polls.

I know, it’s far too early to begin considering who will be the Republican standard-bearer in 2012 (or if there will be a GOP), but since I have no influence, I may as well kick things off. You’ll notice the poll has but 4 choices:

Who will be the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012? (take 2)

Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed

  • Mitt Romney (55%, 108 Vote(s))
  • Somebody else (please name the person in the thread) (25%, 50 Vote(s))
  • Nobody as the GOP will cease to exist before November 2012 (12%, 23 Vote(s))
  • Mike Huckabee (9%, 17 Vote(s))

Total Voters: 198

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I’ll quickly go through the 4 choices:

Mitt Romney – He is the conventional “next in line” the Republicans are so fond of choosing since 1956. While he was in the nomination race, he was the second-leading delegate getter. However, he wasn’t the last one to fall before this year’s “next in line” guy, John McCain

Mike Huckabee – He stakes his claim to be “next in line” by being the last one out of the primaries. However, until things narrowed to him and McCain, he was at best third.

The field – The rest of the Republican field, including Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, Bobby Jindal, and anybody else one can think of, does not have any claim to be “next in line”. As the Republican party proved for the 14th consecutive time, if one is not the “next in line”, one will not be the nominee.

Nobody as the GOP disappears – For those who think this impossible, let’s ask the leaders of the Whigs and the Federalists. Oops; we can’t because those parties, which were once the Not-Democratic Party, no longer exist. Indeed, the Federalists disappeared without anything to replace them in the planning stages.

For those that are wondering how the first take went (which I had up pretty much continuously between March and August), here’s the results.

Who will be the 2012 Republican Presidential nominee?

Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed

  • Nobody as the GOP will not be in existence in 2012 (26%, 66 Vote(s))
  • John McCain (22%, 56 Vote(s))
  • Mitt Romney (as the sitting VP/President) (22%, 56 Vote(s))
  • Mitt Romney (not as the sitting VP/President) (11%, 29 Vote(s))
  • Mike Huckabee (as the sitting VP/President) (8%, 19 Vote(s))
  • Whoever else is the sitting VP/President (you can name the person in the thread) (5%, 13 Vote(s))
  • Whoever else is not the sitting VP/President (you can name the person in the thread) (4%, 9 Vote(s))
  • Mike Huckabee (not as the sitting VP/President) (2%, 5 Vote(s))

Total Voters: 253

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