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Romney Tops 2008 Blog Poll

GOP Bloggers' straw poll for the 2008 GOP Presidential nominee has concluded and with more than 12,000 votes cast, Mitt Romney came out on top (both in terms of "acceptability" and number of "first choice" votes), with Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani coming in 2nd and 3rd.

Right Wing News offers analysis of the results.

Mitt Romney has really rocketed up the charts in the last few months. For example, if you look back to July of last year, he was sitting at only 17.9%. Back then, the number one candidate was George Allen at 48.9%. After Allen went down in flames, it looks as if most of his support went to Romney with a little spillover going to Gingrich while Rudy has stayed in about the same spot (he was +30.6% back then).

On the other hand, Gingrich is not only just a hair behind Romney's poll, he's beating the pants off him in state by state polling. This suggests that Newt has the support not just of the average Republicans, but of the online activists, which means he has a real shot to win this thing if he wants to try to grab the brass ring.

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Romney Tops 2008 Blog Poll

GOP Bloggers' straw poll for the 2008 GOP Presidential nominee has concluded and with more than 12,000 votes cast, Mitt Romney came out on top (both in terms of "acceptability" and number of "first choice" votes), with Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani coming in 2nd and 3rd.

Right Wing News offers analysis of the results.

Mitt Romney has really rocketed up the charts in the last few months. For example, if you look back to July of last year, he was sitting at only 17.9%. Back then, the number one candidate was George Allen at 48.9%. After Allen went down in flames, it looks as if most of his support went to Romney with a little spillover going to Gingrich while Rudy has stayed in about the same spot (he was +30.6% back then).

On the other hand, Gingrich is not only just a hair behind Romney's poll, he's beating the pants off him in state by state polling. This suggests that Newt has the support not just of the average Republicans, but of the online activists, which means he has a real shot to win this thing if he wants to try to grab the brass ring.