Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Daily Kos/SEIU survey: Americans want Mitt Romney to pick someone else to be his running mate

Silhouette of head Who will Mitt's pick be? Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos & SEIU. 5/3-6. Registered voters. MoE: ±3.1% (no trendlines):
Given the following list of choices, who do you think would be the best Republican candidate for Vice President: former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, Ohio Senator Rob Portman, or New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez?

Someone else/not sure: 30
Chris Christie: 17
Marco Rubio: 14
Jeb Bush: 13
Jan Brewer: 9
Paul Ryan: 8
Susana Martinez: 5
Rob Portman: 3
Kelly Ayotte: 2

The only lesson you can draw from these numbers is that Americans have no clue who Mitt Romney should pick for vice president ... which puts them on pretty much the same page as Romney. If you look inside the numbers, Chris Christie is more popular than any other pick among independents and Marco Rubio is the most popular pick among Republicans. Maybe what Republicans really need is a hybrid between the two: an attractive, youthful, and healthy Latino governor of a battleground state. But no such creature exists. Romney doesn't face an easy choice.


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