Reuters: "Republicans back Santorum, Rubio for VP"

[RonPaulFanInGA]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/03/us-usa-campaign-vicepresident-idUSBRE84213720120503


Rick Santorum and Marco Rubio are the top two choices among Republican voters as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday.

Eighteen percent of Republican registered voters picked former Pennsylvania Senator Santorum out of a list of 19 potential running mates for Romney, the party's presumptive presidential nominee in the November 6 general election.

Seventeen percent chose Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida. Rubio was also the most popular pick among members of the Tea Party movement, a group that Romney wants to win over as he works to solidify his support among the party's conservatives after a divisive primary fight.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush were tied for third among Republicans, with 13-percent support, and 12 percent picked former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

None of the other potential vice presidential picks was higher than 6 percent, largely because they are unfamiliar to most voters, Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson said.

[JoshLowry]

The polls appear to strictly measure what people watch on TV.

[kill the banks]

The polls appear to strictly measure what people watch on TV.

damn the media mafia

[bluesc]

Online poll, as they usually are for Ipsos. It's not scientifically accurate at all.

[Vanilluxe]

Online poll, as they usually are for Ipsos. It's not scientifically accurate at all.

Reuters and Ipsos actually have polling reputation around the world and is legit.

[bluesc]

Reuters and Ipsos actually have polling reputation around the world and is legit.

They split online and scientific polling. Their primary polls would swing massively depending on which technique they would use.

Sorry, but online polling is not scientific and is not legitimate when compared to phone polling. It's just cheaper for Reuters to commission.

[Paul Or Nothing II]

If Romney somehow wins the nomination then we MUST en masse vote AGAINST the GOP, be it Obama or 3rd-party, & ENSURE a GOP loss, writing-in is a waste anyway

[Jingles]

How are people even considering Jeb Bush? Don't they remember how terrible to last two were?

Rick Santorum? Marco Rubio? Are these people stupid?

[bluesc]

Are these people stupid?


Republican voters

Yes.

[Paul Or Nothing II]

How are people even considering Jeb Bush? Don't they remember how terrible to last two were?

Rick Santorum? Marco Rubio? Are these people stupid?

Vast majority of people everywhere are stupid, that's why we live in a tyrannical societies where people's rights to life, liberty & property aren't respected, because most people are too stupid to understand freedom, they can't think beyond their little lives & if they think that they'll benefit from violating others' rights then they don't mind that either, this is exactly why there's no liberty

Remember, America was established by a liberty-minded ELITE, not the stupid at large
They even restricted the voting rights to property-owners which were about 10-15% of the population because they knew that socialism & tyranny would reign supreme if every idiot at large got to vote

THIS is exactly what we should learn from history, if we want liberty then in the LONG-RUN, it's only going to come about TOP-DOWN, by enough liberty-minded people accumulating enough political, economic & intellectual might within the society to influence public opinion to the extent of pushing it towards liberty

If we rely on the masses alone to take back liberty then forget about it! They're born stupid slaves!

[No Free Beer]

hahaha, good luck GOP.

[No Free Beer]

Vast majority of people everywhere are stupid, that's why we live in a tyrannical societies where people's rights to life, liberty & property aren't respected, because most people are too stupid to understand freedom, they can't think beyond their little lives & if they think that they'll benefit from violating others' rights then they don't mind that either, this is exactly why there's no liberty

Remember, America was established by a liberty-minded ELITE, not the stupid at large
They even restricted the voting rights to property-owners which were about 10-15% of the population because they knew that socialism & tyranny would reign supreme if every idiot at large got to vote

THIS is exactly what we should learn from history, if we want liberty then in the LONG-RUN, it's only going to come about TOP-DOWN, by enough liberty-minded people accumulating enough political, economic & intellectual might within the society to influence public opinion to the extent of pushing it towards liberty

If we rely on the masses alone to take back liberty then forget about it! They're born stupid slaves!

I don't think people are nec. "stupid" as much as I think it's more lazy.

The baby boomers, for example, have been brainwashed into believing what the gov. tells them and what the little man in the TV tells them. To tell you the truth, with what they grew up with, I don't blame them. The younger generation is different, we have grown up with the internet. We have grown up with some sort of social networking (AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter) where we have had the opportunity to get a lot more information. That being said, there are a lot of people around me in class that are more into reality TV shows and gossip than the problems in the world. Some people just don't want to hear the truth, and I don't blame them either. I was back in Florida for Spring Break (where I am originally from) and for roughly a week, I wasn't on this site, DailyPaul, Drudge, Infowars, Huffington Post, etc...and it was great. So, I understand the feeling of being ignorant, even if it was just for a week.

We just have to stay strong. What was it? Only 1/3 of the colonists wanted to fight for freedom? Seems like history is repeating itself.

Here is a quote which best describes some in society:

"The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth....
He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the
great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor.
It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty — and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies."

- H.L. Mencken