Hot Air Homestretch Survey Final Results
posted at 2:00 pm on March 31, 2012 by Patrick Ishmael
It’s both the highest percentage of the vote and the largest margin between first and second place we’ve had to date. Mitt Romney again takes the Hot Air Survey, this time with 61% of the vote. He’s followed by Rick Santorum with 20%, Newt Gingrich with 14%, and Ron Paul with 4%. I think it is fair to say that at this point, Republicans are pivoting to the general election. Over 2000 votes were cast.
Romney is beginning to win the most votes among the 2008 candidate constituencies. Interestingly, Gingrich wins among self-proclaimed Palin voters, and Santorum wins among Huckabee voters.
No surprises in the preferred vice president category.
Questions or looking for a specific cross tab? You can find me here. Typically these surveys have been done twice a month, and events on the ground could be such that in two weeks that this race could be over, making further Hot Gas surveys utterly extraneous. (Yes, commenters, please tell me how extraneous and pointless these are/were. Please.)
If that’s the case, let me take the opportunity to say that this was a lot of fun, and it was a pleasure working with everyone to get this experiment off the ground. Had a blast!
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Hate to break it to you after such a fine rant, but you read the chart wrong. Total votes for a 2012 candidate in this survey are added vertically, not horizontally.
HTL on April 1, 2012 at 6:01 PM
Hey, shite for brains, Mitt has one wife. Your gasbag is on his 3rd and counting.
MJBrutus on April 1, 2012 at 6:21 PM
Impressive, and letter-perfect. But remember you must only use your super memory powers for good…
HTL on April 1, 2012 at 6:40 PM
LOL, that is pathetic.
Back in summer/fall of last year, Palin would get more than 3,000 votes just by herself. Same thing with many other GOP contenders.
Romney is a big wet blanket on the conservative movemnet. Voter turnout among conservatives will be lower. The only question is by how much.
Norwegian on April 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM
“The Hotair survey is irrelevant! These stupid people posting here are not representative of anything! ROMNEY WILL WIN EVERY SINGLE PRIMARY!!!!!!!!!!!” – Mittbots, circa 9 months ago
“See, this Hotair survey is totally on the money, all of you people posting here who don’t support Romney are totally off base! Your just Obamadrones! This is the most relevant poll ever, see, Romney can too win conservatives!!!!!!!!!” – Mittbots, today
:)
Buckshot Bill on April 1, 2012 at 8:39 PM
Rather low turn-out. That doesn’t bode well, but it supports my theory.
The issue is not whether or not Romney will beat Obama in the general election. The problem is that in a contest between Obama and Romney it doesn’t matter which one wins because either way conservatism loses. To be honest, I’ve yet to be convinced which would be worst. Obama openly dismantling our republic or the Republicans joining together to give it away in secret. If Romney is the nominee, the only thing we can do is keep our fingers crossed and pray that he’s changed a lot since he was governor.
Pattosensei on April 2, 2012 at 12:05 AM
If you had really wanted to find it, you would have. Or if it had been a negative number for Santorum or Gingrich or Palin, it would’ve been repeated so often it would’ve already become gospel (as in “74% of GOP voters didn’t want Palin to run”.) Try “favorability” rather than “approval” (which at this point means the same thing for Romney.
LOL. How ironic. Gingrich DID concentrate on Obama, moved past Romney in the polls, and then Romney had to become the ankle biter to take down Gingrich. Romney could’ve been concentrating on Obama since last May.
Because he’s a squish whose base consists of squishes, and squish orthodoxy is that saying mean things about liberals only alienates them and drives them to the Democrats. It will happen again this time. Moderates can only attack conservatives.
ddrintn on April 2, 2012 at 7:12 AM
Which makes Romney and McCain voters the most significant “constituencies” and still totals less than 900.
ddrintn on April 2, 2012 at 7:51 AM
Humm, Ok, so you couldn’t find it either.
Gunlock Bill on April 2, 2012 at 10:54 AM
Interesting approach. Source: because I said so.
Must have saved you a ton of time in college, not having to footnote your research papers beyond that (and then ibid, of course).
HTL on April 2, 2012 at 2:05 PM
Dump Mitt Now (before it’s too late)!
Perry/West 2012
. . .because America does not need another wimp in the White House!
Pragmatic on April 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM
LOL, the ‘bots must be avoiding search engines these days like the plague.
Knock yourselves out, condescending shits.
ddrintn on April 2, 2012 at 9:20 PM
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