CNN

The first problem with this poll is they only asked registered Republicans. To get a clear picture of what will happen in 2012, you also have to ask Independents and Libertarians. Second, we don't know exactly what was asked in the poll. Did they ask if the voters would consider voting for Ron Paul? I bet they didn't. What I'm getting at is that these polls don't have any real value whatsoever.

Haha such good news

What the Republican Party has yet to realize is President Obama will be unseated for a second term from with in his own Party.

Both Hillary and Kerry smell blood in the water and will mount campaigns in opposition to Obama. Can't say who would win and I would never vote for any of this clan, but I'm pretty certain Obama is on his way out.

republicans if you care about your party please no mitt.

I didn't think it was possible for a political party to be consist solely of a fringe without any center at all, but I see the Republicans are giving it their best shot. Hmmm...the Donut Party...Homer likes donuts!

Obama is slowly self-destructing. His ideas on taxes, immigration,
the environment, education, healthcare...are not shared by most
Americans. He can bluff us once into thinking he's got the
experience to rule 300 million; but not twice. Even getting enough
flu vaccine out on time is too much for him. Not to mention that dumb
laundress he picked for the Supreme Court! His visits to Virginia and
New Jersey produced two new Republicans. Sorry, Barrack, but you
don't have the right stuff.

The economy worse? Right John....The Stock Market is up...other indicators are showing improving signs. Unemployment is always a lagging indicator. Gas Prices here are still 33% lower than their all time high. The only reason gas was so cheap a year ago was the economy was at it's worst point. Islamic terrorism will never go away regardless of what party is in power.

Your prediction is premature, but people like you only think in the moment and have no forward vision to think 3 years out. You probably hope that the country is still in the tank in 3 years. You don't care about the country, you only care about your selfish self. Did I hope the country would tank when Bush was elected, no I did not. It seems like you hope it will.

Sad indeed.

Let's start with potential problem number one: they are Republicans. Please run Sarah. It's always a hoot to see Repugs turn on each other like vicious dogs.

Interesting how many blame President Obama for the lag in the economy, etc......Yet it's Republicans trying to keep him down, and Blue Dogs trying to keep him who are holding up progress.....Let's stay focused.......

None of these Republican names being bandied about will emerge as the Republican candidate for 2012 presidential elections. My dear CNN and infact other news media, haven't you guys learnt from past mistakes of trying to predict what will happen in presidential elections. Anyway, whatever these Republicans do, Democrats will have the White house again in 2012. Sorry, NO VACANCY!!!!!!

None of these Republican names being bandies about will emerge as the Republican candidate for 2012 presidential elections. My dear CNN and infact other news media, haven't you guys learnt from past mistakes of trying to predict what will happen in presidential elections. Anyway, whatever these Republicans do, Democrats will have the White house again in 2012. Sorry, NO VACANCY!!!!!!

The only republican candidate I would consider as president is not a
republican: President Obama.

I do not want to control you Wolf.. You are my hero. But you have to be more impartial. You have to fight for qa position many wished they had. Why do I bother!

Romney is nothing but an uber-wealthy, stuffed suit, who got chased out of office in Mass. after only one term for being an ineffective,as well as, incompetent, Govenor that was more interested in grandstanding and "photo op's" than anything else! It didn't take the people of Mass. very long to see it and realize what this clown was all about!!!........As for Huck-a-Bee Bee?.....Can you say "Bible thumping" nut job that want's to erase our Constitution and replace it with the "good book"?............NOT ON MY WATCH!!!!!!!!

As long as your republican does not search for a viable candidate who can win the election you are in the woods. Sara Palin is the biggest joke that I have ever seen; she should have continue to be Governor and educated herself on foreign affairs plus many other subjects. I agree Newt is the smartest of any of these candidate but he also has a bunch of baggage. The republicans need to change and get out of the tea part mode for their great hope.

With "Oxycontin Limbaugh" and "The Iquitarod Queen" as heads of the party of NO, the Obstructionists of ANY AND ALL progress for this country, it's not likely to change - unless it gets worse for them. Let them weed out a few more of the sane ones and we can just put a net around them and haul them off.

They are Corporate Shills, taking money to do the dirty work for Corporate Profits. RIP GOP. We don't need hate, fear, and lies.

Why not change the worst president (Obama next to Bush) right now before he ruins everything? Both biggest government in history. History proves big government, socialism just never work.

Wolf Blitzer told the webb . he was canadian. CNN? No...., It is not "Canadian News Network. Wolf is a Turn-Coat...

Romney 2012 – Please save America!

The Republican party is screwed if these are their choices. Eazy re-elect for the President.

Such a "sad" lsit! NOTHING NEW! NO innovation! NO excitement! NO creativity!

wHAT'S TO BE EXCITED ABOUT?

We want Sarah...she is so smart and perdy.
She is coming Mayberry on her book signing tour.
Aunt Bee is so excited she leaked her depends

Does anybody in the Republican Party know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. If so please teach your Rep. Boehner each so he won't continue to be in front of the medial and make a worst fool out of the GOP.

Tell me how can people assume that this country could be turned around in 4 years. It will take 8 to start a recovery effort of what the GOP has done to this country. If you have any common sense you would know that it will take the patience of Job to start.

Remember, until the GOP gets rid of conservatives, people who go to Church and those who stand for the constitution and are to the left of Blue-Dogs, none will ever get voted to office.

Va and NJ are tricks and dopes who watch Fox News shouldn't get fooled, the Dems won ALL elections yesterday including an election that hasn't been won by a Democrat since Alexander the Great.

Remember NY23, beating an independent conservative by 5% points after the Republican candidate dropped out and endorsed a moderate Democrat is PROOOF that no one will vote for conservative.

Did I mention that everybody hates people who go to church and vote GOP? They shouldn't be allowed to vote. Did I mention I hate Sarah Palin so much I want to get on CNN.COM and call her every name in the book and repeat endlessly how irrelevant she is and how no one likes her.

It does not matter, since it will be a Republican Congress and Senate in 2010.

If those are their options Obama can start writing his second inaugural adress tomorrow. Tuesdays elections meant nothing. Virginia always changes their Governor to the party opposite the President, and Christie won in NJ because people were unhappy with Corzine, not because the GOP is making a comeback. Not only that but the in the mid term after any President is in office the other party almost always picks up seats. Democrats will clean house in 2012.

Palin's book tour will raise her profile and poll numbers. There can be no doubt Palin is not only an attractive candidate with her charisma and folksy charm, but that she is the GOP frontrunner. There is a growing consensus that Palin is the most qualified person in America to be President.

I'd like to see Romney run against Obama. Romney can kick Bo"s butt on economic issues.

When Obama is re-elected in 2012, I'm gonna love it. Laughing at the little retards that have been seething for four years and knowing they will suffer fits of unjustified anguish for an additional four year. I wish pure unhappiness to every moron in the country, that sums up all the republicans.

The way this Administration is recklessly spending the public's money, the disappointing figures on emplyment, and the worsening situation in Afganistan, I think the GOP could run Big Bird in 2012 and take the WH, as well as make substantial gains in both the House and Senate.

With only 20% of Americans willing to 'fess-up to being republicans .... 71% off 20% is not enough to "win."

The GOP keeps kicking the moderates to the curb ... wanting only the "pure" conservatives ... you can't win with those numbers .. too many of us remember the past administration ... we are all watching to see what
the "winners" in NJ & VA really accomplish.

UGH..Not a candidate among them. Wow we need the new generation to step up or we are all done. Lets hope an Independent steps forward....

Three more years of the incompetence we are currently seeing from this administration will change these findings significantly. Obama continues to screw things up.... and God only knows how bad it will be in 2012.

Yeah right, none of these fools stand a chance against BO.
If the repubican'ts had so many answers, why have the past 8 years been so great? 2012 is a long time off, a long time for the economy to turn around, housing to turn around, and the finance industry to get back on its feet. If these 3 things happen, NO ONE will be able to beat BO, much less any of these losers!

May be the GOP is planning to bring on Senator Joe Lieberman the republican/democrate, may be thats why Glenn Beck works tirelessly to make President Obama look bad. Is it time for Becks to show loyalty and pay back lieberman the gratitudes of taking him to Yale? is it the reason why lieberman has the guts to say he will filibuster the healthcare bill? May be all along he knew the tea baggers led by becks have his back!!!!

I plan to resign being a member of the Republican party. It is no longer what my dad called the "Grand Old Party" and I am ashamed to be a member of the organization. Their most recent efforts to derail the political process that resulted in Scozzafava declining to run in NY is the final straw. The party's refusal to even sit at the table to discuss the world's environment is another sign that they are not living up to their responsibilities as elected officials.

One would hope that they would learn from all of their mistakes, but I refuse to remain a party to them. On Monday I plan to go down to the election office and sign up as an Independent.

I sincerely hope Mitt Romney spends many more Millions of Morman Dollars in yet another unsuccessful bid to become President of the United States.

Mitt, is the typical slippery eel politician who is completely in the pocket of large American Corporations and totally unable to give the American citizen a straight answer to a clearly asked question.

I hope Mitt is the Republican candidate, he'll go down in defeat.

A. Smith
Oregon

The only candidate the fate of America can hope for is Ron Paul, a true patriot and defender of the Constitution. I voted for Obama to end the senseless and illegal wars, and to stop defending the opium fields in Afghanistan, to get rid of Bush's Patriot Act, wiretapping, and indefinite detention. All of which he increased. And he surrounded himself with wall street. Until we have a president with the spine to get rid of the Federal Reserve, which is a PRIVATE bank, we will never have to prosperity this nation is capable of. The American Dream will stay just that.

Palin is the Republicans own Nader. The gift that keeps on giving just in time for the holidays!

First of all, it's nutty to be even talking about the next presidential election.

Second of all, Huckabee doesn't understand the separation of Church and State explicitly stated in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, not to mention the fact that he doesn't believe in evolution.

With the human and technological challenges facing our nation for many years to come, the last thing we need in the White House is a person like Huckabee.

personally I would love it if any of these clowns ran in 2012. It would just make Obama's reelection all the more sweeter!

Keep criticizing, Liberals.

You are so blinded by your own arrogance that you don't see things shifting around you, even as clearly as 70% of Independents voting for GOP candidates just two days ago. If that trend even remotely holds in 2010 and 2012, you will be eating your words. All of you.

Just wait for more spending, more money printing, and more lack of truly measurable "change".

As a former Republican, I will *never* vote for this party again until it gets it's head back on straight, and puts this country ahead of it's psychotic wing.

President Obama, in my opinion, has done a good job considering what he's up against – if we really want to see "change", we have to do more than fix the top – we have to fix Congress top to bottom – get out those who have been there too long and use their positions to benefit themselves. We all see the press conferences – all they care about is to have their team *win*.

Seems to me the base of the GOP are folks that have never left their hometown never mind their home state and have NO CLUE what the "real" America is all about.

If this group is the future of the Repub party.......the party has no future........

Any Republican is better than this idiot!!

I hope the GOP does nominate one of these nutcases for President, that way I won't have any second thoughts about voting for Mr. Obama.

Bob J
Kansas City, Mo.

Do you want change or a welfare state? RON PAUL for real change!

I can't wait for 2012 to come fast enough?
Economy and growth in double digit
Unemployment at 5% or lower
High speed railroads everwhere
Education system improved
Al quaeda Diminished
Green Jobs growing everywere
Immigration problems solved
People finaly have health care they can live with until universal healthcare in 2016
Many of this republicans will commit succide because their head will blow up out of Anger because the black man they hate so bad will win another term.
They will push for more violence and organized crimes but I trust the FBI to put them all in jail.

Ron Paul is the only republican candidate that can win AND reduce the size of government AND actually end wars AND stop printing phony money. Obama and the old Bush crowd are the same, let's get real change and get Ron Paul in office before it's too late.

I've got a new slogan for the Republican Party!

Ready? Okay, here it is:

"The Grand Old Party of 2009. Doing all we can to ensure Obama's re-election in 2012!"

X-D

I doubt anyone mentioned in the articel will be on the ballot...way to early and people are sick of the races...all incumbents are still hated.

Republicans may be riding high after their victories in Virginia and New Jersey yesterday, but they need to pay attention to this fact:
Only 30% of people would even CONSIDER voting for Sarah Palin. That isn't saying they definitely would vote for her, just that they would consider voting for her.

Do the math, and that means 70% of Americans won't even think about voting for the woman many conservatives think is the future of the GOP.

If that is their future, it's a pretty grim future indeed.

With the worsening economy, rising joblessness, rising gas price and rising Islamist terrorism around the world, the Repubican will win easily in 2012.

Untell the repulican party drums out the right wing conservitive barons and dumps the other loons for it's rolls it's going to be on the outside looking in.Americans are for the most part in the middle and intell they relize thats the way we vote then the will not gain but lose more membership tell a party that is truely in the middle appears.That will be the party I will most likly vote for. To the RNC the folks speaking for you are scaring the hell out of everybody, or they are insiting hate.
WAKE UP!!

Will Mike Huckabee select his good friend Chuck Norris for VP or will Norris be campaigning for the nation of Texas? Fascinating that Republicans who talk about secession can claim to be patriotic at the same time.

How likely is it that there will even BE a "GOP" in 2012?
Democrats have disagreements on policy, but generally come together on a common course of action.
Republicans (of late) treat EVERYONE, even each other like "the enemy," even their own.

I'd say it's sad, but, HEY, maybe we can get some Government "for the PEOPLE" for a change.

Doesn't matter who the GOP puts up there, this is a one term president. The farther lefty of all of the presidents so far. American is a right leaning country, so this lefty is doomed. With all of the lies he spewed duning the campaign about being a centrist and being transparent, those will all come back to haunt him. He will be another Clinton next November, neutered by the election, he will have to actually be bipartison. That will stop the socialist agenda. By 2012, I expect the GOP to have majorities in both house and the White House, then we can repeal all the freebies and handouts, and start to reguild our country devestated by this deficit growing newbie.

As I've said over and over, the GOP's main problem is that it's a shrinking party. Those on the right are pushing moderates out in the belief that they aren't conservative enough. If this is allowed to continue, the Republicans could end up with a scenario where they could easily nominate a candidate that is unelectable in a general election.

Look what happened in NY-23. The conservatives put up "their" candidate, and he lost in a district that has been a GOP stronghold for over a century. Unless the GOP is going to argue that this was a liberal district, then they've got serious electability issues.

I hope we aren't going to speculate and ruminate on who is going to win the presidential election for three years. We are all weary form the last election. But I will say that if people are ready to go back to the repugnants so soon, this country might as well hang it up. The conservatives have nearly driven us off a cliff and President Obama is trying to bring us back. bush/cheney sat on their hands and let the economic crisis happen, let millions of jobs go overseas, let China get a head start on alt fuels. If you are a working person in America don't vote republican, you are voting against your own self interest.

Republican: I only help those who can already help themselves...That has got to be one of the best droll comments from the monicker on down. Thanks for the chuckle.

I've been an independent for 30 years. I supported Obama in 2008. I don't mind Republicans, except there is not one of them out there who has a solution (let alone a working solution) of his/her own.

The problem in being 'the party of NO' is that change IS inevitable, and you have to roll with it one way or the other. 'No' stops nothing. So show me a plan, or get out of the way.

Mike Huckabee is just another hateful extremist conservative, pushing an agenda that has no place in the real world. If he and Sarah Palin are the best the GOP can pull out of their rears, then the Republicans have no business leading this country. It appears, despite several spankings at the hands of the American voters, that they have failed to learn their lesson. If they continue to push their party to the extreme right, they will sink into to irrelevance. No big loss, I suppose...

I can't, for the life of me, understand just how the name Palin is even in this article. Are the Repubs aerious??.
Time to leave Palin out of any talk that shares the same subject as "the White House" at any era. By including her name the GOP shows just how NOT SERIOUS that truly are.

I heard Romney got a call from BVD...they want him and his anchorman hairdo to promote their new line of magic undies. [insert rimshot here]

Politco is reporting that even Sarah's children were stalked by 2 authors who were writing a book. Of course the national media will ignore the story. Why ? Because it makes Sarah seem sympathetic. I thought I had heard it all until I read the media is EVEN critizicing her choices of what cities she will sign books in. She is the first politician to be bashed for that. Did the media question Pres, Obama's choice of which cities he attended?

first off, it not even CLOSE to election time, so WHY are we talking about it now, you people are like the stores putting out Christmas stuff the day after Easter, GEEZ...Second of all, I think we all know not ONE of the candidates for the republican party has a shot at winning, Obama WILL be here folks deal with it. I know you are the same people that thought Palin would be the saving grace for mccain, but seriously folks, reality is NOT a bad thing...

None of these GOPers appeal to anyone other than teabaggers.

Some of us may hate his policies but BO is still the greater candidate. He'll take 2012 and people will still be angry just because they like being angry. We all hate the Yankees but they are the better ball club just like BO!

Helping others is one thing; giving others no incentive to help themselves is another.

Geez....Its 3 years away. Go away with election results for at least 2.5 of them.

In any event, none of these contenders are viable; the independents will throw up en masse over any of them. I suspect the GOP knows this and will keep looking for someone more appealing to the middle.

Gov. Pawlenty is the only formidable 2012 GOP candidate, who in my opinion can give President Obama the biggest run for his money. And this is coming from an Obama supporter. He needs to work on getting his name out there more.

Problems with the GOP? How about problems with the Democrats as well? I see no difference, both are for big brother Government, both what to continue the ruling class of nobles over the worker serfs. Both support unconstitutional policies.

Just gotta love it, CNN (Clinton or Communist News Network, take your pick) poll says Republicans could NEVER win against the Great One in the White House. What has he DONE to get you people to roll over and pant like you do? It really can't simply be his charisma, or can it? I don't really like any of the candidates mentioned myself, but hopefully someone will come along and stop our country from being turned into some kind of European socialist paradise. What happened to us, people? Why do we want to do this to ourselves?

LOL. We will see after 2010

By the time Obama and Pelosi bankrupt the country after three years the country will even be willing to take GW back!

I can't stand Mitt.

It will be soooooo easy to beat Obama in 2012 that anybody could do it. So it's really not a question who is better fit to beat Obama, but who will be the best candidate for our country as a whole. And that , no doubt, is Gov. Mitt Romney.

Go Romney!

The republicans have done this sorry mess to them selves by acting like infants and cry babies. Oh by the way, Limbaugh and Hannity didn't help you any.

None of them are capable of being president. You gotta do better than that. Ya betcha.

Isn't Huckabee one of the ones in that Republican't debate who said he doesn't believe in evolution???? Oh yeah . . . that's who I'd want as MY president! A flat-earther . . . .great.

What polls show Palin will blow Obama away in a presidential election?Those who believe this is a valid prediction are dreaming.

Huckabee is fine with me. He would not be difficult to beat nor would his Republican cohorts: Palin, Romney, Gingrich, Jindal, Pawlenty.

As though anything CNN says about Republican presidential candidates can be believed...

I agree. The GOP has many, many issues to deal with right now. The do not have a positive message for Americans, they only say No and other negative things. The Democrats are behaving like spoiled cats. Each seems to be willing to vote for their own bill and no one else's.

The strength of our government depends on compromise around a common purpose while partisanship based on individual concerns weakens the government.

the reason is because the fringe is all that's left of the Republican party.

The majority have either gone independent or they supported Obama.

CNN had pro public option protests right outside of their New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles offices today and refused to cover any of them. We might have to start calling them "fair and balanced" just like Faux News.

I think the republicans should run Glenn Beck for President.

Yeah, that's it, with Michele Bachman, no, Sean Hannity, noo Rush as VP

Sarah Palin for Chancellor or maybe Christian in Chief

What this tells me is that the Republicans still don't have a reliable canidate to run for President........they will have to do better than Huckabee, Romney, Palin, Gingrich,.......but the republicans won't take advice from anyone.......they think they have the answers to all and everything.........they have to verbally distance themselves from the one's that are distroying this Party like Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Palin and these Birthers and Tea Baggers......or no one is going to take the GOP serious.....it isn't that the rest of the country isn't Christrians but we are not and will not let the Fanatic right wing conservative religious take over this country

The once-proud Republican party has no qualified leader. Huckabee is a nice guy but is anti-science and is too much of a religious fanatic. Romney has changed positions many times and far-right evangelicals will not vote for a Morman.
Sarah Palin is so totally unqualified in every sense fo the word that she would never be elected. They have no defined leader. However, Barack Obama is the best person to sit in the Oval Office. He will keep on cleaning up the mess left by Bush/Cheney , some type of health care reform will pass, employment will start to pick up and he will emerge as the leader the free world has been looking for. I am proud to call him President.

"Potential problems for possible 2012 GOP candidates"
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1. There are NO viable GOP candidates.
2. The GOP is totally disconnected from the real lives of real Americans.
3. The GOP has NO platform other than Hate, Bigotry, Lies, and Amorality.
4. There are not enough certifiably crazy citizens able to vote that could identify with their platform to ensure them a win in 2012.
5. Sarah Palin.
6. Sarah Palin.
7. Barack Hussein Obama.

Enough said.

I guess we are going to disreagard the fact that it's still 2009?!?!?!

Republicans are so fucused.......not with current issues, they are too busy offering ideas with no numbers or just plain old walking out.

Republicans are focused on the future, kind of like when you break a toy, and instead of fixing it, you will just wait till mommy buys you another one.

Soooooo cute!

2012 seems quite a way off. Now, 2010.............................?

Huckabee appeals to the GOP base of fundies and evangelicals, but he once supported a tax, and the wealthies who own the Republican Party have hysterics about that. Romney/Palin!

Fortunately, that awful team could never get elected. Even Republicans can tell how insincere Romney is. Palin's sincere, just limited.

Ah, the Palin/Gingrich ticket! ooooh!

7 out of 10 Republicans would vote for a man who believes that the world is 6000 years old and people rode dinosaurs. You wonder why only 20% of the people even consider themselves Republicans?

What has happened to this political party, it is now filled people who are not qualified to run this nation. How disappointing!!

the Republicans can put whomever they want up against Obama!

Obama will simply win on what he has accomplished during his first four years.

but Palin or Huckabee sure would provide us with the laughs for the campaign year leading up to it! Late night and bloggers around the world need one of them to be the nominee! I NEED ONE OF THEM TO BE THE NOMINEE! hysterical stuff!

Let's see a 20% favorablity rating.....only 20 out of 100 claim to be GOPers.....yeah I think they DO have a problem. Unless Rush, Sean and Glenn pool all their money together and buy some votes the Obama administration is really going to have to do a Carter/Bush act to lose in 2012. You can bet the far right will try to make things seem worse than they are and their base and news company will promote it.

This is just what we need. One more rich guy with the silver spoon in his mouth and the shotgun at his side.

Looking at the potential field of Republicans, I cannot but hope that somehow, the Democratic Party can accomplish a major portion of their goals, and get the economy back on track.

The possibility of a GOP made up of the current "leadership" coming back to power is more frightening than Bin Laden and Bankruptcy SQUARED.

Huckabee? BWAAAHHHHH!!!! The man that thinks the constitution should be amended to coincide with the bible?! Nooooooo thanks.

Romney has no true convictions or principles – he changes his convictions like he changes his magic undies. I wonder how he stands upright without a spine.

Do these folks realize it's 2009 not 1949?

The Republicans will have to lie and cheat to get more votes.

Hey wait a minute...

Lets face the facts America. The Republican party doesn't have a single candidate that would even stand a chance running against Obama or any other Democrat for that matter.
George Bush ruined it for the party. Democrats are in power now and its going to stay that way for a long time. Long live the Democratic party and liberal America. All of the Obama policies are going to pay off for this country and I guarantee in 2012 there will be plenty of Republicans voting Democratic.

The problem with this country is that instead of focusing on the problems, we always want to point the finger and blame someone else. Bush blamed Clinton, Clinton blamed the first Bush, now Obama blames Bush, and WHOEVER is president after Obama, whether is is in 2012, or 2016 will blame Obama for everything. The same with our Republican and Democrat politicians. They all want to blame each other for this or that. I personally feel it is time to drop the blame game and work together for a common good for AMERICA. Right now the top priority should be our economy which envelopes health care, unemployment among other issues. I do not claim to be Republican, I do not claim to be Democrat. I claim to be AMERICAN. There is a difference.

70% of Republicans will vote for the man who stated during his campaign that the Constitution should be changed to reflect the "Word of God?" This is why the Republican party is dying....it's becoming increasing dumbed down by people like Huckabee and Palin.

It really is too early to start talking about this, but what the heck I'll throw in two cents.

The Huckster talks a good game and seems to be the a down to earth guy. Not a bad choice.

Sarah brings out the best and beast in people, that would be a nasty campaign season.

Romney or Pawlenty – no way. We all can see what Romney Care did to his state. They are both probably a little bit too moderate but 100 times better than BO.

Newt knows his stuff. He's probably the smartest and most political savvy of them all. Unfortunately he comes in close behind Sarah and Limbaugh in bringing out the beasts.

2011-12 will be interesting, just shut down Congress and get us through till then.

Go ahead, put up Palin or Huckabee, its a guaranteed win for Obama !!

They keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results..... Idiots

CNN had pro public option protests right outside of their New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles offices today and refused to cover any of them. We might have to start calling them "fair and balanced" just like Faux News.

I usually vote democrat but if Huckabee runs ... I (and many dems) might vote for him .

Please don't vote for this idiot! Thanks!

This is probably me. I will never vote a Republican as President. Not in a million years.

One big problem, the GOP is only 20% of America and 71% of those would vote for Huckabee, so that's 14.2% of Americans; 65% for Romney and Palin equals a blistering 13% of Americans. None of these equate to a winning ticket. To put it another was, if you put all of them on the same ticket you still would only get 20% of Americans. You see the obvious problem here. But the GOP will still try to spin things being all rosey for them in the future.

So...now they WANT Obama to get a second term? They must really like his policies!

We don't have any real leaders in this party. We have a bunch of whiners and complainers is all.

Hate to say it, but I would vote for Obama over ANY and ALL repubilcan candidates at this point. Give me a Reagan again and you'll have my vote. But the lot you have in there now never does anything. What was that..boycotted today? Come on, GROW up and do your jobs. Get to the meeting and PROVIDE your feedback. Don't sit out like juvenile dirt bags!

As of today, President Barack Obama has kept America safer, longer than George W. Bush was able to during the first year of his Presidency.

It is always pointed out how no other attack happened after 9/11, hence G.W. Bush kept us safe. With that logic, Brack Obama is currently a better president than Bush. He's kept us safer, longer.

Now, I really don't care about this fact, just that you now have to eat it and officially shut up.

More CNN spin.

As a moderate Republican who is starting to shift towards being an independent, it scares the bejeezus out of me that a majority of Republicans would consider voting for Sarah Palin. Egads. Is intelligence and integrity (not to mention doing your job and not quitting) no longer a requirement in our public leaders?

We hope that ALL candidates are "seriously considered" for president. This is the leaderof the free world- pick carefully.
It's not baou treligion, political biases or appearance, it should always be on qualifications and and personal strength.

Haste makes waste! We just got over Halloween and already Christmas decorations are up on some city streets. We are in too much of a hurry, America! Why can't we wait until late next year to start gloating over 2012 elections? We need to be devoting time to fix today's serious problems ASAP.

That is if we still have elections by then.

We're gonna get Palin to run. All the polls indicate she will BLOW Obama away in an election, just like she did last time she was on the ballot!

(When do we get to redraw teams, I'm tired of having all the morons).

GOOD! Now fire the Democrats, too! Most are Complicit and need to retire, leave or otherwise get out of our lives! If we do not get rigid 10-20 year prohibitions in place to stop this revolving door from government to Corporate Lobbying, we are Never getting out of this mess! here is a good book that interested folks will find rewarding, especially a discussion of the quotes from Prince Bandar (Bandar Bush to GWB) of Saudi Arabia. Craig Unger's, "House of Bush, House of Saud" (Bandar quotes in first one) AND "The Fall Of The House Of Bush". We are wise to read even those that we are vehemently opposed to. It brings us great understanding or so I've found in hearing my teachers. Peace Can Be If We Do It.

I believe this poll is indicative of decency instead of qualification. I don't believe Huckabee is the most qualified but I do believe he is the most decent out of the wolfpack. Romney is probably the most qualified but he doesn't mean what he says. I hope they put most unqualifed and indecent candidate in Sarah Palin so that the President can continue to worry on fixing the GOP mess and not have to worry so much about 2012.

And what percentage of people said they would seriously consider voting for Barack Obama in 2005? This is a loser of a survey that means exactly nothing

Sorry...... Mitt........ you are not conservative enough! Watch-out for the far-right-fringe of the GOP...... there's a witch hunt going on! Mitt, you are next!

Palin/Bachman 2012!

I am an Independent living in MN. The only one I'd seriously consider voting for is Huckabee.

And, being a researcher that works with statistics and figures a lot, I am very amused at the inconsistancy of how the poll results are given. Four in 10, then one in three, then 29%, then less than one in five. I'd never allow my name to be on a manuscript with results written in this manner.

By the time 2012 gets here, with the track we're on, the memory of Herbert Hoover could could emerge victorious.

Unless Barack Obama personally choose not to run for re-election, there's no way a Republican can win in 2012.

They can dream all they want but no one in that party stand a chance in 2012. That my friends, they can take to the bank!

GOP: white-white-white.

Hey Steele, Have You Broaded That GOP Base Yet, It's been 9 months!

You'd think Mitt would have problems selling all that health care reform he did while Governor of Massachusetts to the Conservabots. He better practice the GOP matra- "Spend, spend on killing and destroying brown people. Don't spend on taking care and supporting Americans." or else he's done.

Help this country if people even consider voting for this religous fanatic. A vote for him would set this country back into the dark ages based upon his religous beliefs. If you think that ROMNEY could make impartial decisons and not place his far right religous beliefs into those decisions you making a huge mistake. I left the Republican party, because since Regan they have not been able to produce a canidate worth voting for.

That poll highlights one thing only...name recognition.

There is a lot of time between now and then. The economy could improve. There are plenty of scandals that could happen. I would love to hear about a Palin/Pawlenty scandal (love nest or feud). I wouldn't expect much of these polls until a month or so after the 2010 elections.

Please please please nominate Palin... we're all so afraid of her.

yeah, and as the FRC and other ultra-right wing radical organizations muscle moderate Republicans out of power, just watch the party dissolve in the process.

If the GOP doesn't realize that being ignorant bigots is a poor political decision, their party is going to be nearly irrelevant by 2012.

I consider myself to vote conservative and I can tell you regardless of who is running, I will vote for them vs. Obama!! I am hoping that maybe HIllary will decide to run, I think she could handle the country. She sure has proven she has the guts to deal with other countries!
I cannot wait until Pelosi is ousted out!!

None of them stand a chance.

Looking for Reason? Mr USA you have no Reasons left.
Your tore your Country apart, now you are heading for all kinds of Implodes. A lot of Bitter People. Those that Obama mentioned during the election. And Obama created it all...

Nothing compared to the problems Obumbles will be facing. Of course his will all be self-created.

Ohhhhh No.......This means the South will vote Republican!!
Can the Dems afford to lose the South ? ?

Why do you always put Palin in as a presidential candidate? You know darn well it will never happen. Republicans don’t even like her. I doubt if she will be a house hold name in 2012. Her book is out she is done, let it rest. Gee wiz Fox news doesn’t even have this many Palin references throughout the day.

wow the republicans are running out of liers to put up against the democratic president Mr. Obama . so if the republicans even think that someone like the idiot Palin is all they have to muster up for the presidential race .then down the tube they go .. the independent party has more to over than the republicans ..the republicans will be come a party of the past and will fall by the wayside .. the independents will be come the new conservative party of ...racist homophobic white only party...and then they will have to add some of the minorities to make themselves atleast be a contender in any national race... it doesn't look good for any of them .. in the near future...

gary davis
Harbor Oregon

Potential problems for the GOP in 2012. You can say that again. Potential problems for the GOP in 2012!

first sentence: "seven out in 10"... um, isn't that supposed to be "seven out of 10". do people proofread anything anymore?

Sarah Please run, please, please, please. I have not had a good laugh since Tina Fey was in SNL and it would be a shoe-in for Obama.

Doesn't anyone remember how sick of the presidential race Americans got in 2008? Give it a rest media and pollsters. Don't start all this about the 2012 presidential race until 2011.

Palin/Cheney – pleeeeeeeeeeeeeze