Results from Suffolk University/7NEWS (WHDH) poll of likely New Hampshire primary voters: Mitt Romney (41 percent), Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul (14 percent), Jon Huntsman (9 percent), Herman Cain (8 percent), Rick Santorum (3 percent), Rick Perry (2 percent), and Michele Bachmann (1 percent).
The poll also asked people to speculate why 75 percent of GOP voters weren’t backing Romney. Here are the reasons people gave: because of his Mormon religion (16 percent); flip-flops on issues, his health care plan and too many other candidates right now (all 10 percent); not conservative enough (9 percent); he is boring and people are unsure of him (both 3 percent); and not a real Republican and because he is from Massachusetts (both 2 percent).
It is the ugly Mormon thing, a real sickness from Our own Base.
A stunning number at 16%, as I imagine some others are simply not willing to admit it, knowing the religious intolerance will be condemned.
One has to wonder if this had an effect, within the coverage of Mr. Romney in 2008, when a few Media organizations who are considered slanted to the right gave John McCain some decidedly favorable coverage over Mr. Romney.
When we consider the big sudden swing to Newt from the fashionable at this time makes this poll data even more entertaining. Do they know Newt endorsed the Mandate in MASS? That the life long Beltway Insider made nearly 2 Million from Fannie and Freddie alone? Or that Newt was playing with Nancy Pelosi on TV advertising Global Warming sophistry?
My guess is many who answered the questions about Romney, with a negative view of his "conservatism" do know Newt is a very big placater of the Democratic Partisan Swindle and holds many moderate-liberal embraces, but they really don't care. They are stuck on image and bias - which turns their offering into being far from conservative, sound, reasoned, etc.
Will the tired game succeed in enabling the Democratic Partisan sophistry yet again?
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