Remember Jon Huntsman, the candidate that Charles Krauthammer, Mark Shields, and David Brooks assured us would be a "serious candidate" were he to enter the Republican primary? I never did understand that active-passive voice business but it looks like one can be "serious" even when the voters don't take one seriously. In any event Gallop has a new poll out. Huntsman has raised his name recognition among Republican voters to 42% and 55% of those who do know him have a favorable opinion of him. But just 5% of Republicans who recognize Huntsman have a strongly favorable opinion of him, tied with Johnson for the lowest such percentage of any candidate measured. Three percent of Republicans who recognize Huntsman have a strongly unfavorable opinion of him. Keep in mind, these same three also tell us that Sarah Palin can't win. Guess she's not serious-merely electable.Things aren't going well for Newt Gingrich either The image of former Speaker of the House Gingrich among Republicans nationwide is now the worst of any candidate tested. His Positive Intensity Score is 1, based on 11% strongly favorable and 10% strongly unfavorable opinions among Republicans who recognize him. Forty-one percent of Republicans who recognize Gingrich have either an unfavorable or a strongly unfavorable opinion, 15 points higher than the overall unfavorable opinions for Palin, who has the next-highest total.
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