This is the GOP polling graph for the presidential candidates.  What does this tell you about Republican voters this election?

 

LOL

Looks like the path that shoppers take at Wal-Mart...at first running straight to the store, but once inside, attracted to random things.

That's not a GOP poll, it's an EKG of Michelle Bachman's brain! 

  That graph looks like that because NONE of those candidates has told me anything!  Looks like "Survey says" agrees with me. 
  Joelene

Quote from: juliekins on December 30, 2011, 09:39:27 AM
That's not a GOP poll, it's an EKG of Michelle Bachman's brain! 

I think you mean EEG (electroencephalogram)

EKG (actually ECG, electrocardiogram) measures the heart.

Quote from: VeryGnawty on January 01, 2012, 12:33:09 PM
I think you mean EEG (electroencephalogram)

EKG (actually ECG, electrocardiogram) measures the heart.

Then it can't be either .

None of them are really serious, except the one guy from last time, and no one likes him.  But it's a hell of a line up.  Wada' ya got?  Well we have a one term senator (and really it's HARD to lose once you get in) from Pennsylvania who is weird in major league ways.  Not the least of which is that he's actually serious that he could be president.  Two - count 'em, TWO - congress critters who have never won a statewide election, and represent some pretty weird people.  Ex gov, ex ambassador, ex a lot of things, but he doesn't matter, he's not crazy enough?  How 'bout a three times married guy running on family values?  Oh we got him, guess he got over that whole 'resigned in disgrace thing.'  Pizza anyone, and get the pizza maker to go fetch Trump too, we all need a good laugh.

How crazy train is it?  Sara Palin didn't run, proving herself the sanest one in the bunch.  Chew on that for a while.

And Mitt Romney can make a big deal (and DOES, he really DOES) about 'not being a professional politician'.  But that's only because he keeps on losing.  Had he won all those offices he's run for, he would be a huge professional politician.

Quote from: tekla on January 01, 2012, 01:14:35 PMHow 'bout a three times married guy running on family values?

It's standard that the people who profess morality with the loudest voice are the quickest to not practice any.

They (GOP) may as well vote Democratic for the presidential race (or abstain from voting). Four more years under Obama might produce a better GOP candidate when the time comes.

Four more years under Obama might produce a better GOP candidate when the time comes.

Only if they get serious and do a real purge.  But so long as the values voters/tea party/evangelicals/cultural conservatives are all over there, then this is exactly what you'll see again next time (minus the racial hate that Obama has somehow stirred up).  Being right is nice, but the business of political parties is not to be right, it's to get elected. 

Quote from: tekla on January 01, 2012, 01:14:35 PM
And Mitt Romney can make a big deal (and DOES, he really DOES) about 'not being a professional politician'.  But that's only because he keeps on losing.

Yeah, but when you look at what he was really good at with his expertise in leveraged buyouts and corporate raiding - stealing from the poor and giving to the rich - you realize he at least has some promise as a professional politician.

I think a lot of it reflects the Anyone But Romney crowd's continued failures to find their Great White Hope. They really seem to hate him. I'm seriously wondering if the Republican nominee might not end up being someone who isn't even running right now.

I'd really like to be a fly on the wall and hear what the GOP think tank actually has to say about Romney.  I'd love to really know why they hate him so much. 

That poll graph also tells me the anyone but Romney attitude attracts the opportunists in a big way, even when they haven't a clue about anything remotely close to what skills it takes to be the president.  I think that's why we've seen so many front runners.  The new guy steps in, everyone runs to support him, they find out what he's really about and they run to another not-Romney candidate.  Repeat.

What would Sigmund Freud say about this? 

Many evangelicals don't like Romney because he is Mormon and they think Mormonism is a cult unlike their own religion which I sort of find to be a cult.  Others don't trust him because they aren't sure where he sits in the political spectrum.  He has been a bit of a chameleon on social and economic issues.  Of all the Republicans running, he probably has the best chance to win because he will be perceived by independents as more moderate and probably has less skeletons in his closet.   

Quote from: Julie Marie on December 29, 2011, 01:06:40 PM
This is the GOP polling graph for the presidential candidates.  What does this tell you about Republican voters this election?

What that graph says is that no consensus has developed, at this point in time, on who their nominee is going to be.

Quote from: Julie Marie on January 01, 2012, 09:04:04 PM
Yeah, but when you look at what he was really good at with his expertise in leveraged buyouts and corporate raiding - stealing from the poor and giving to the rich - you realize he at least has some promise as a professional politician.

Pabulum

Quote from: tekla on January 01, 2012, 07:25:38 PM
Four more years under Obama might produce a better GOP candidate when the time comes.

Only if they get serious and do a real purge.  But so long as the values voters/tea party/evangelicals/cultural conservatives are all over there, then this is exactly what you'll see again next time (minus the racial hate that Obama has somehow stirred up).  Being right is nice, but the business of political parties is not to be right, it's to get elected.

Practicing Catholics, who certainly fit your criteria of "values voters" and "cultural conservatives," have long been a Democrat constituency.

Four more years of Obama will destroy the country.

What that graph says is that no consensus has developed, at this point in time, on who their nominee is going to be.

You are clearly under the delusion that somehow 'the people' or even 'Republican voters' pick the nominee, they don't.  There is no legal binding for any primary votes in any state.  These are in essence (as well as in fact) private groups acting privately.  The sitting members of the Republican Central Committees pick the nominee, and it's been a done deal for a long time now.  THE FIX IS IN.  They are going to pick the guy who is the most like them, ie: the richest white guy in the room who's been waiting the longest, and that's Mitt.  It's always been Mitt.  The entire process is structured in just that way.