NV-PPP: Romney remains ahead by a healthy margin

[Tender Branson]

If the Republican candidates for President next year were Mitch Daniels, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, and John Thune who would you vote for?

Mitt Romney.................................................... 31%
Sarah Palin ..................................................... 19%
Newt Gingrich ................................................. 18%
Mike Huckabee ............................................... 14%
Ron Paul......................................................... 7%
Tim Pawlenty .................................................. 1%
Mitch Daniels .................................................. 1%
John Thune..................................................... 1%
Someone else/Undecided............................... 8%

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_NV_0110424.pdf

[Lambsbread]

Romney seems to do well in more liberal states. Hmm...

[pbrower2a]

Romney seems to do well in more liberal states. Hmm...

He's a Yankee.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Its more to it in this state then that.


1. Mormonism
2. 2008, Romney paid attention to the state, no one else did
3. Romney may or may not have something in the suburban areas of the west that may or may not translate to some kind of advantage in these Obama states. Only one way to find out though.


Nevada, a "liberal state". Why, because it didn't vote for Angle? Its still hardly a "liberal" state.

[Badger]

Its more to it in this state then that.


1. Mormonism
2. 2008, Romney paid attention to the state, no one else did
3. Romney may or may not have something in the suburban areas of the west that may or may not translate to some kind of advantage in these Obama states. Only one way to find out though.


Nevada, a "liberal state". Why, because it didn't vote for Angle? Its still hardly a "liberal" state.

Call it "reddish-purple". It's now replaced NM as a lean Dem state in the Rockies running a point or two more Democratic than nationally.

[tmthforu94]

Just because a state votes for Democrat's doesn't mean the Republican Party there is liberal. Take Delaware, for example.

[California8429]

Its more to it in this state then that.


1. Mormonism
2. 2008, Romney paid attention to the state, no one else did
3. Romney may or may not have something in the suburban areas of the west that may or may not translate to some kind of advantage in these Obama states. Only one way to find out though.


Nevada, a "liberal state". Why, because it didn't vote for Angle? Its still hardly a "liberal" state.

All of this^^

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Its more to it in this state then that.


1. Mormonism
2. 2008, Romney paid attention to the state, no one else did
3. Romney may or may not have something in the suburban areas of the west that may or may not translate to some kind of advantage in these Obama states. Only one way to find out though.


Nevada, a "liberal state". Why, because it didn't vote for Angle? Its still hardly a "liberal" state.

All of this^^

Ah, and since when is identity politics not allowed. I don't even recall Romney running as "the mormon candidate", unlike a certain someone who ran as "the baptist minister", that would would have been self-destructive for him.

I will also point out that Romney does best in Nevada and Arizona in the general election matchups which indicates a base of Western support beyond that of mormons, and encompassing the suburban strength as well.

[Franzl]

He's a mormon. That's pretty much the only relevant thing here.