Peter Dow
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- Mar 3, 2010
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Romney Rice 2012. Condi - ideal running mate for Mitt Romney
‘Ideal’ if he doesn’t want to win the election.
The snag is Romney will need a significant number of democrats to vote for him if he’s to have any hope of winning. They likely won’t vote for him anyway, and certainly not with rice on the ticket.
Did you notice, read and understand this?
The CBS video is embedded in a background suggesting a possible "Romney - Rice 2012" Republican ticket for the United States Presidential elections and in support of that idea, the results of April 2012 polls indicating the percentage of U.S. voters with a favorable opinion of
Condoleezza Rice - 66%
Barack Obama - 54%
Mitt Romney - 40%
Far more Americans than just the Republican base had a favorable opinion of Rice in those polls. 66% of all Americans favored Rice. That's two thirds. That's maybe 2 out of 3 members of this forum.
Romney in those polls only had 40% of Americans having a favorable opinion of him.
Romney does need someone on his ticket who is favored by many more Americans than just the republican base whether we call those other Americans "independents" or "democrats who might switch their vote to the republican ticket if they favored the republican candidates enough".
So , someone favored by a lot of Americans, 66%, Condoleezza Rice, would seem to be an obvious person to put on the ticket to attract a more favorable opinion of the republican ticket overall.
In a straight fight, Condi Rice vs Barack Obama, Condi would likely win because Rice's 66% beats Obama's 54%. Far from making it a certainty that Romney will lose to Obama, putting Rice who is more favored than Obama onto the ticket makes it a possibility that Romney Rice can beat Obama's ticket.
Ideally, both places on the republican ticket would be occupied by candidates who start out as more favored than Obama's 54%.
Condi on the ticket tends to make the republican ticket more favored than the democrat ticket with Obama on it. Romney on the ticket tends to drags the republican ticket lower than the democrat ticket.
But Romney is going to be the republican party candidate for president so the ticket is stuck with him on it. The question is, who is best on the number 2 position to lift the popularity of the ticket up as high as possible?
Now OK, if there is an even more favored person than Condi then he or she would be good on Romney's ticket but I don't believe there is such a more favored republican.
Condi may be the most favored possible candidate the republican party has but that's OK because Condi would make a great vice president or president if anything happens to Romney.
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