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Spectator readers thinking ahead to the Republican convention don’t seem to like what’s on the menu.
Earlier this week, we opened our Deadlocked Convention Poll (disclosures: Unscientific! Totally arbitrary! Highly entertaining!) to gauge where your support will fall if no clear nominee emerges before GOP delegates meet in August. With a few thousand votes now tallied, one choice stands out: None of the above.
Here’s the most intriguing poll result thus far, as of 2 p.m. today:
Should it come down to a brokered convention, which of these potential dark horses would you like to see emerge?
| Other | 42.07% | |
| Paul Ryan | 20.18% | |
| Marco Rubio | 14.35% | |
| Mitch Daniels | 9.92% | |
| Chris Christie | 8.00% | |
| Jeb Bush | 5.48% |
That’s a whole lotta stewing dissatisfaction.
We’ll leave the poll open over the weekend, so there’s still time to cast a ballot. Full results — which will show who the real, “other” winner is — will be announced on Super Tuesday morning.
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Clint| 3.2.12 @ 2:45PM
Rise Up !
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.
RJ| 3.2.12 @ 2:55PM
What would you like/expect to happen at a brokered convention?
Clint| 3.2.12 @ 3:21PM
That The RINO-CINO Ruling Elite Fops Get The Message That There's A Rebellion Goin' On Out Here And We Ain't Buyin' Their "Lesser Evil" RINO-CINO Crap Sandwich.
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
Other Candidates Serve As Our Protest Rebellion To Extend The Campaign, Deny The Ruling Elites' RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney Enough Delegates And Head To A Brokered Convention.
RJ| 3.2.12 @ 3:30PM
Thanks. My concern is that limited government values need to win the delegates at the ballot box in order to get a limited government candidate because I fear deal-making at a contested convention favors the monied-interests, which is where the Rinos get their support.
Clint| 3.2.12 @ 5:12PM
You're Welcome.
We Tea Party Patriots Have Been Busy Behind The Scenes, Placing Our Delegates.
Dai Alanye | 3.2.12 @ 5:36PM
After the convention Clint will switch from highjacking delegates to carjacking, his preferred occupation. Perhaps he'll also study capitalization.
Clint| 3.2.12 @ 9:00PM
Israel Firster Smear Bund Zealot, Dai Job Will Continue To Service His Mancrush, Bibi.
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.
martin j smith| 3.2.12 @ 3:11PM
Not Romney wins hands down. Since we will need a candidate some one will have to be chosen and I believe it will be a brokered convention that will include enough of this and that get majority of support. If none of the current candidates will do I suspect Paul Ryan might and Marco Rubio as VP. How about that ?
ayrnieu| 3.2.12 @ 3:38PM
Romney isn't one of the options. "One of the candidates" should be an option, though. If it comes down to it, a 'dark horse candidate' is a terrible idea: Obama's billion dollars let him attack the fresh candidate as readily as any other; the fresh candidate will get tepid "anybody but Obama" defense.
RJ| 3.2.12 @ 3:40PM
My thoughts are that the candidates currently running are the best prepared for the final election. They have been vetted in the media, faced the voters, and set-up a campaign organization. Everyone else (even though they have been dreaming of being President since childhood) are just not tested nor prepared. Rick Perry comes to mind with regard to how quickly a presumed top-tier candidate can fall once subject to the intense scrutiny of a Presidential race.
The non-candidate who might have the best chance is Paul Ryan because he is the best spokesman on the biggest issue; the economy & federal budget. As far as a VP, I think they would want to pick someone with significant executive experience, so a governor comes to mind. Who knows, maybe John Kasich, but he would need to have an approval rating much higher than at present (44%)
Bob| 3.2.12 @ 11:49PM
If only Obama would be subjected to the same intense scrutiny...
Although there is a video of him that's supposed to come out in ten days, so who knows.
Floyd Looney | 3.2.12 @ 3:41PM
No RINO's
Your Inner Voice| 3.2.12 @ 3:51PM
And the GOP Establishment installee is a homo-hugging ( http://rightwingnews.com/colum.....gay-group/ ), baby-killing, gun-hating, ObamaCare-writing, left-of-Ted-Kennedy- running, Taxachusettes commie-lib, hungry for the power his money should be able to purchase for him. He loves him some tax-payer funded bailouts for banks and Olympics, and is against reductions in entitlements. He is the death of the Dead Elephant Party, which will soon join the Whigs in the dustbin of history.
Dai Alanye | 3.2.12 @ 5:37PM
Plus, he's skilled at losing elections.
JambalayaJim| 3.2.12 @ 4:13PM
Was Palin left off on purpose?
Your Inner Voice| 3.2.12 @ 5:29PM
Most of the Establishment RINOs are kitty-whipped, according to El Rushbo, and their wives hate Palin with the heat of a thousand suns. There is not a snowball's chance in that place created for the devil and his followers that the Establishment Machine is going to EVER allow Palin on the Dead Elephant Party ticket, ever, ever, ever... Only will she be on the new TEA Party ticket (already started in Congress after 2010) after Romney's installation starts a new political party.
Women HATE other women that look hotter than they do. Reality bites.
Your Inner Voice| 3.2.12 @ 5:33PM
Rubio is NOT a "natural born citizen" by the legal precedents, and POTUS, of all elected offices state and federal, is the ONE office requiring "natural born citizen" status. Why politicos keep suggesting Rubio for an office he can't legally fill is beyond me..except that it appears that they do not give a rat's rosy-red rear-end about the Constitution any more that the Obamunist and his demons.
Quartermaster| 3.2.12 @ 7:42PM
All the names on the list are GOP establishment types. In reality, they are not RINOs as they are the core of what the GOP has always been. It has *never* been a conservative party. Progressivism is its heart and soul. It was Progressive before Wilson and his minions. Anyone that expects the GOP to produce a conservative is delusional. Ronnie Reagan is as close as you will ever see.
If you want a conservative candidate, you will have to establish a party that will produce one. The GOP won't.
M Bauman| 3.2.12 @ 10:07PM
Let's start thinking about a party name now so on November 7th we're ready to go.
I mean"Conservative" really is kind of blasé.
Bill| 3.2.12 @ 8:07PM
I miss Rick Perry.
M Bauman| 3.2.12 @ 10:28PM
I hope the "other" person I voted for gets some support.
I'd hate to think it's almost all "you know who" or Ron Paul supporters messing around.
Bob| 3.2.12 @ 11:45PM
I wonder how many of the "other" voters want one of the current front-runners to be nominated instead of looking for a dark horse.
JimH| 3.3.12 @ 8:33AM
This is another reason for Tea Partiers and other friends of limited government to get control of the GOP at the local level. This is where most delegates come from.
kf451| 3.3.12 @ 11:04AM
Why don't you break down the "other" category? That was the only interest I had in your poll. It can't be that hard to present more results.
JohnInFlorida| 3.4.12 @ 9:23AM
Gee ...
I wonder who falls into the "other" category??? And I wonder why we're not being told who's in there ...
Could it be that other is spelled P A L I N and NO OTHER??
Just wondering.