Yesterday, Zogby announced the results of their most recent poll about Republican presidential candidates. The results are awesome: Chris Christie, the teabaggy governor of New Jersey, is in the lead. (He has repeatedly said he isn’t running.) Here’s the top of the list:
Chris Christie 17%
Herman Cain 14%
Ron Paul 10%
Mitt Romney 9%
That’s a list full of winners, right there. But that’s the list of who Republicans want to win the nomination. When asked who they think will win the nomination, the results are more mainstream: “31% of GOP voters say Romney. Tim Pawlenty is next at 8%.” Also of interest is the “I-will-never-vote-for-this-candidate” poll. The top five there: Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul.
Statistically, this is what we call “a clusterfuck.”
The election is a year and a half away, for chrissakes.
My own informal poll:
Chewbacca 24%
Trini Lopez 9%
Speedy Alka-Seltzer 8%
(Now watch for the “Chewbacca 2012” signs at teabagger rallies. I swear.)
The Republicans need to broaden their appeal, and not just go for the WASP (White And Somewhat Pathetic) vote. Therefore: Oscar Levant/Señor Wences 2012!
Alan Alda should run, I’ll bet that last season of the West Wing really would get a lot of the numbnuts to vote for him. Like the rest of these knuckleheads, if you show them someone’s picture a zillion times…they’ll vote for them!