{"id":700719,"date":"2010-03-25T10:02:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T14:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33764"},"modified":"2010-03-25T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T14:02:50","slug":"who-are-they-polling-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/700719","title":{"rendered":"Who Are They Polling? Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gary Howard<\/p>\n<p>Different sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/34724.html\" >poll at Politico<\/a>, about likely GOP presidential nominees. Of course, Romney places first&#8211;for some odd reason. But Ron Paul is, as always, lurking nearby as a possible darkhorse.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads his Republican rivals for  the party&#8217;s 2012 presidential nomination, according a new survey out  Friday by Public Policy Polling.<\/p>\n<p>Romney commands 28 percent of the 614 self-identified Republican primary  voters polled by PPP.<\/p>\n<p>Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee places second with 24 percent,  followed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at 23 percent and Rep. Ron  Paul (R-Texas) at 11 percent. All four leading candidates ran for the  party&#8217;s nomination in 2008. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/34724.html\" >Read more..<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Who would have thought a few years ago, that Ron Paul would be placing regularly in presidential hopeful polls, especially after the way his own party treats him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gary Howard Different sort of poll at Politico, about likely GOP presidential nominees. Of course, Romney places first&#8211;for some odd reason. But Ron Paul is, as always, lurking nearby as a possible darkhorse. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads his Republican rivals for the party&#8217;s 2012 presidential nomination, according a new survey out Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WhV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}