{"id":2090,"date":"2012-01-29T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2012-01-29T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T19:45:40","slug":"florida-snapshot-from-new-poll-romney-with-solid-lead-gingrich-with-high-negatives-obama-would-beat-either-handily-if-general-election-were-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/29\/florida-snapshot-from-new-poll-romney-with-solid-lead-gingrich-with-high-negatives-obama-would-beat-either-handily-if-general-election-were-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida snapshot from new poll: Romney with solid lead, Gingrich with high negatives, Obama would beat either handily if general election were today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* 468 x 60 Banner bottom *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3159198192\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Sections\/A_Politics\/_Today_Stories_Teases\/120129_NBCMAR_FL_prim.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">data in the new NBC\/Marist poll<\/a> certainly gives some interesting glimpses of the Republican primary field in advance of Tuesday&#8217;s winner-take-all vote in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>A few details that stand out:<\/p>\n<p>In head-to-head general election hypotheticals<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obama 49% &#8211; Romney 41%<\/li>\n<li>Obama 52% &#8211; Gingrich 35%<\/li>\n<li>Obama 50% &#8211; Paul 36%<\/li>\n<li>Obama 50% &#8211; Santorum 35%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among likely Republican voters Tuesday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Romney 40%<\/li>\n<li>Gingrich 26%<\/li>\n<li>Santorum 15%<\/li>\n<li>Paul 10%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2nd choice among likely voters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Romney 27%<\/li>\n<li>Santorum 28%<\/li>\n<li>Gingrich 25%<\/li>\n<li>Paul 9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Who likely voters like least:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul 50%<\/li>\n<li>Gingrich 23%<\/li>\n<li>Santorum 10%<\/li>\n<li>Romney 8%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Romney also leads the field in acceptability (62% acceptable and 26% acceptable with reservations).<\/div>\n<div>Plus, 55% of likely voters preferred a quick nomination process over an extended one.<\/div>\n<p>This is all obviously good news for Romney. Except, of course, for the November matchup.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The data in the new NBC\/Marist poll certainly gives some interesting glimpses of the Republican primary field in advance of Tuesday&#8217;s winner-take-all vote in Florida. A few details that stand out: In head-to-head general election hypotheticals Obama 49% &#8211; Romney&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/29\/florida-snapshot-from-new-poll-romney-with-solid-lead-gingrich-with-high-negatives-obama-would-beat-either-handily-if-general-election-were-today\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[62],"tags":[61],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-xI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}