Who's your "Huckleberry"?

[Woody Williams]

Which candidate would you vote for in the 2016 GOP primary?


Jeb Bush

Chris Christie

Ben Carson

Rand Paul

Rick Santorum

Ted Cruz

Scott Walker

Marco Rubio

Mike Huckabee

Rick Perry

Milt Romney

[throbak]

You left out Mike Pence

[freedomhunter]

Ted Cruz or Scott Walker. Pence won't run, he can barely handle Indiana.

[swilk]

Depends on if I thought my vote mattered in the primary..... if it mattered I would vote for someone who could win a general like Jeb or Chris.

If it didn't matter I would vote for Rand.

[dbd870]

Guess Rand is as good as any. Don't buy the only a moderate can win in a general. When you run someone like Jeb or Krispy the conservative wing stays home. Besides that hasn't worked out so well recently anyways. In any case I still believe by the time they get to this level you don't want any of them.

[swilk]

I think moving around to win the primary hurts them..... lots of truth to what Jeb said.

[Woody Williams]

American voters have short memories.....

[firstwd]

I agree that Indiana votes mean little in the primary. I truly believe that a National Primary should be held on a single day just like the General Election. I think the outcome would have been different over the last 20 years if most of the country wasn't stuck choosing from whoever is left. Personally, I wish we stilled used the original method and whoever got the most votes was President and #2 was Vice.

[coyote6974]

You surely see what happens when the Republicans send in a moderate. Did Dole, McCain, Romney, give you a clue? It's time to send a true conservative candidate to the general election. Remember Ronald Reagan? We have to have a candidate who is willing to fight and win, not play nice.

[drs]

I'd vote for Mike Huckabee. He seems to be the most honest & down-to-earth candidate.

[dbd870]

Way too many people don't want a primary all on one day; never happen

[lawrencecountyhunter]

Jan 4, 2015 22:57:41 GMT -5 coyote6974 said:

You surely see what happens when the Republicans send in a moderate. Did Dole, McCain, Romney, give you a clue? It's time to send a true conservative candidate to the general election. Remember Ronald Reagan? We have to have a candidate who is willing to fight and win, not play nice.

I think Romney would have had it in 2012, had he not been neutered after the first debate.  He took Obama to school, but some thought he "looked mean," and he didn't show near that level of fight the next 2 debates. 

Christie didn't help anything either, bragging Obama up days before the election.  IIRC, Romney was leading Obama in most of the polls until the hurricane hit, and then Christie and the media had Obama looking like a savior.

[swilk]

Its interesting the different views folks get through their own political lenses .... there are plenty of folks in this country who are upset because Obama is not far enough left for them while many from the right feel he is the most liberal leader imaginable.

Extremists from either party have a hard time winning in a general .... the base always think its their year but in the end most elections are determined by those in the middle who could, in any given year, vote for either the elephant or the donkey and those folks often times dont like the extremes.

Turn out is often cited but considering on our best day only about 60% of registered voters turn out how much can a person rely on or blame turn out?

[Deleted]

Since people vote with their pocketbooks, above all else, it's going to be a tough sell for any Republican to win if the economic rebound continues and gas prices stay low.

[swilk]

All depends on who is in the race ..... Hillary has a good chance of winning no matter who the Republicans put up. If someone like Warren gets the nod the pendulum swings to the other way and itll be the Republicans to lose.

Speaking of gas prices .... listening to news radio on the way to work this morning and there was some knucklehead talking about increasing the gas tax to generate money to fix the nations infrastructure. He claimed that with prices so low that folks were saving soooooo much money they could afford it. When asked what happens when gas prices go back up he continued to talk about how they were low now so the tax was ok .....

[windingwinds]

#1. The gas prices WILL go back up. And those whom count on low prices will suffer.
#2. The wasted vote myth......I vote for whom I want. Therefore my vote is not wasted. Want Independent votes? Then most of those choices are wrong. Personally I like Rand, but I like his dad better. If I don't like the Republican choice then I vote Libertarian or Independent. On occasion I vote Democrat. With congressional approval so low, this next election could be with the 3rd party success.

[js2397]

I really doubt there will ever be another old white guy that wins the presidency. Rubio is the best bet if the republicans want to win otherwise it will be Hillary or a different woman/minority. The democrats know that in order to get that part of the vote you have to run that type of candidate.

[firstwd]

Jan 5, 2015 9:37:01 GMT -5 @metamorahunter said:

Since people vote with their pocketbooks, above all else, it's going to be a tough sell for any Republican to win if the economic rebound continues and gas prices stay low.

The scary thing is that none of them will remember what happened to the prices the first 6 years. I think we almost to the price level we were at when he took office.

[swilk]

Just like people forget gas was high while Bush was in office before dropping at the end.

[firstwd]

Jan 6, 2015 6:35:59 GMT -5 swilk said:

Just like people forget gas was high while Bush was in office before dropping at the end.

Yep, I remember that to. IIRC, prices didn't go up until we started blowing up the middle east just like they did with the first Bush. Alas, that was quite some time ago and the memory isn't that great anymore.