| 2012 Iowa Republican Caucus | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/13/2011 | 11/15/2011 | 10/19/2011 | 8/31/2011 | 8/4/2011 | |
| Mitt Romney | 23% | 19% | 21% | 17% | 21% |
| Newt Gingrich | 20% | 32% | 9% | 2% | 5% |
| Ron Paul | 18% | 10% | 10% | 14% | 16% |
| Jon Huntsman | 5% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 2% |
| Herman Cain | Withdrew | 13% | 28% | 4% | 4% |
| Rick Perry | 10% | 6% | 7% | 29% | 12% |
| Michele Bachmann | 9% | 6% | 8% | 18% | 22% |
| Rick Santorum | 6% | 5% | 4% | 4% | Not Polled |
| Some other candidate | 2% | 1% | 4% | 0% | 7% |
| Not sure | 8% | 6% | 8% | 10% | 0% |
The survey of 750 Likely Iowa Republican Caucus Participants was conducted on December 13, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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Romney has simply lied a number of times while trying to reinvent himself. For example:
ReplyDelete-- "I have a gun of my own."
(Not true. He was talking about a gun one of his grown sons own.)
-- "I've been a hunter pretty much my entire life."
(He hunted once at 15, and a second time in his late 50s.)
-- "I told you what my position was, and what I, what I did as governor; the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."
(No - and his Democratic opponent actually had a higher NRA rating)
-- "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
(No, they never marched together. They were both in Michigan at the same time once, but Mitt was in France on his mission.)
-- "My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit."
(even more false...)