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Utahns prefer Romney to Huntsman in new poll

Perhaps Romney with Huntsman as a running mate would satisfy at least the Utah vote. Both are excellent business men and would be a strong package for the GOP.

This is easily the most stupid poll I have ever seen. If a successful Harvad graduat who happens to be a mormon can't get elected, how is a G.E.D. toating playboy who also happens to be a mormon possibly going to get elected?

Nobody asked me in a poll. but I'd take Huntsman in a heartbeat.

Neither has a chance with our AMAZING President. Obama 12 Hillary 16

Re; Are you kidding me? Two men from Utah, both Mormon and you think they would be a strong package for the GOP nationally? Are you President Obama's National Chairperson for his 2012 reelection or the most naive political observer ever to grace the pages of the Des News?

In this climate, a social and economic conservative will not take the prize. A compromise would be Huntsman who hasn't been too rigid on same-sex marrage, but can regain what Obama has given up economically. If Utah and the conservative's in the country lean too far to the right socially, the republicans will lose again in 2016.

GOP has nothing better to do, than to complaint of their resent loss. Put your energy in to doing something good now and stop thinking of 2012.

as far as i'm concerned, huntsman does not belong in the GOP at all. he is a traitor to utahns, republicans and mormons. he has no business running for president.yes, i am reffering to his stance on civil unions. even if you agree with him on it, consider this: why did he not make this stance before the election? or when the marriage amendment here in utah reached his desk, why didn't he send it back objecting to sign because it prohibited civil unions? i'll tell you why, it's because he is nothing but a politician with no dignity. all he cares about is himself. i am not saying a man does not have the right to change his mind, i'm just saying that he did not reach these opinions overnight. if he did, he would've said something like "i was wrong before and i hope you can all understand that and agree with me." no, all he did was call everyone else a bigot and placed himself as some kind of liberator of the gays. the man has no integrity and no business representing utah, mormons, or the GOP.

Huntsman is a RINO (Republican In Name Only). I think all the RINOs (Hatch and Bennett also) should form their own party and get out of the GOP.

But, what we really need are people in the federal government that understand and are willing to uphold the constitution. Bail outs are no where to be found in the constitution, but Huntsman was only too eager to accept the money.

If we can't find politicians willing to uphold the US constitution, our representation will only get worse.

Huntsman really isn't either

I'd take Huntsman over Romney! FYI the old Republican Party is gone! The Party needs real leadership that appeals to all regions of the US, not just the conservatives in the west and rednecks in the south.

Of course I prefer Romney, he's done something. Huntsman is just the son of someone who's done something. Romney is amazingly intelligent and hard working. Huntsman is amazingly aloof and blows with the wind. Of course, both have great hair, but I won't count that against them.

In my opinion, Huntsman is the future of the GOP. Not really sure he wants to run for president in 2012.

If GOP were smart they would go back to being fiscally conservative, moderate social Americans.

They have played out the radical social conservative and lost the GOP moderates.

If they continue, what are the 6 to 10 GOP'ers going to do? Listen to Hannity?

Romney would do better in Utah, Huntsman would do better nation wide.

But really, does it even matter. The GOP, which means goofy OLD (mostly) politicians, are history. They had their chance and completely blew it, big time. The party should be disbanded and the duffers put out to pasture. The party needs to be replaced with the independent party.

Utahns prefer Mitt to Huntsman. They have the favorables/unfavorables about Obama pretty much in reverse. They spend millions to stop a social justice movement that's way overdue. They harbor illegal immigrants in violation of the country's laws. They turn their backs on polygamous communities where women are abused and adolescent boys are abandoned.

Think you've got some thinking to do?

Why does the rest of the country even bother with you?

I rather suspect that Huntsman nor Rommney have a faint distant remote chance of EVER being elected as potus. I would be so bold as to "prophesy" that there will never be a mormon elected to the Presidency of the USA,it ain't gonna happen. 6 million mormons vs. 350 million regular americans, you do the math and you'll have to agree.

The GOP has not been Conservative since 1988, fiscally Conservative under Newt, but socially Conservative's left with Reagan. Bush was semi-Conservative on social issues (see: abortion, also see: Immigration-liberal), and McCain was the least Republican candidate on both economic and social issues that the Republican party could have nominated. That is why I think party primaries should be closed to party members only, no Independents and definitely no cross-overs. This way Limbaugh and the Huffington garbage can't influence elections by getting their people to cross over and vote for or against a member of a different party. They should be closed to party members registered two-three months in advance, that would let the people actually represent the party decide who runs. McCain represented old politics, and Obama represented "change" that was the only difference, Obama got the young stupid kids and ignorant changemongers to vote for him. The GOP needs REAL fiscal Conservatives, not Bush's or McCain's. Social issues will always be a middle of the road issue, and truthfully not many people are switching sides on those anymore, get them at their pocketbooks. Romney is a lot better than Huntsman.

Goodness, you use words like Harvard, graduate, Mormon, toting, etc and misspell them all. Wise up.

Not all Utahns. Some of are actually democrats.