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66% favor Condoleezza Rice, more than do Obama (54%) or Romney (40%)

By: Peter_Dow (Diary)  |  May 2nd, 2012 at 12:19 AM  | 

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Recent polls of Americans show that Condoleezza Rice is viewed more favorably by U.S. voters than is Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.

Rice 66%, Obama 54%, Romney 40%
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Poll results: For Condoleezza Rice, (34% very) + (32% somewhat) favorable = 66% (total) favorable view from likely U.S. voters, from Rasmussen Reports April 27, 2012.

Poll results: For Barack Obama, 54% favorable impression & Mitt Romney 40% favorable impression “among registered voters” say ABC News, April 16, 2012 though the ABC News / Washington Post poll data quoted is for a random national sample of adults with impressions of Obama 56% favorable and Romney 35% favorable.

My conclusion is that Mitt Romney or whoever finally secures the GOP nomination to be the Republican candidate for president in 2012 can add the popular appeal to the GOP ticket needed to beat Barack Obama by picking Condoleezza Rice to run for Vice President.

Sources
Rasmussen Reports – Condi for Veep? 66% View Former Secretary of State Favorably

THE HILL – Opinion: Condoleezza Rice would be game changer as Romney VP pick

ABC News – Mitt Romney Shows Record Shortfall in Personal Popularity in ABC News/Washington Post Poll

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  • zachv

    I’d love to have her running. :/

    • JSobieski

      Another example of someone who while smart and accomplished, would be a terrible political leader.

      First, she is very much wedded to a foreign policy approach of national building that we need to back away from. We don’t need to be spending hundreds of billions of dollars establishing Sharia states in the ME.

      Second, she isn’t actually all that conservative.

      Supporting Condi for VP is like supporting Harriet Meyers for the Supreme Court—both are fine people, but both are likely to disappoint in material ways.

      • aesthete

        I have a soft spot for Condi, in that she seemed like one of a handful of Bush administration apparatchiks who could 1) do her job without drama or scandal, 2) articulate her views and relevant policy of her administration (and look good doing it), and 3) be loyal, professional, and dignified when talking about her boss or politically-charged events. It helps that, like Tony Snow, she was a decent, hardworking person. IMO she is the model of what a civil servant should look and act like.

        Even so, I agree with this assessment: the attributes which made her an appealing spokesperson for her boss don’t transfer that well to a leadership position in electoral politics, and she really isn’t that conservative when it comes right down to it.

        RE foreign policy, we really need to start finding people who want to disengage from the Middle East without shutting ourselves off from the rest of the world a la Ron Paul: someone who is able to articulate and embody a confident and appealing American role in securing her interests, while also recognizing the need for ideological warfare against Islamism, as we had against Soviet Communism.

      • Ausonius

        King Jan Sobieski and Aesthete are quite correct: Condi would be horrible.

        Does anyone who is pushing her as a V-P choice remember her on Sunday news shows??? I cringed as she started up immeidately in high gear and then babbled on and on at even higher speeds, looking very nervous while doing so.

        Even if she were a Conservative, which she has proven otherwise by her years of service with the compassionate W., that tendency alone would disqualify her.

        And almost a year ago, Mitch Daniels made a mistake by naming the pro-abortion Rice as a possible V-P choice:

        See:

        http://www.lifenews.com/2011/05/13/mitch-daniels-names-pro-abortion-condi-rice-as-potential-vp/

  • garfieldjl

    She isn’t a politician after all.

  • Finrod

    But I’m not so sure she’s the best VP choice for Romney. She would have been an awesome VP pick for either Gingrich or Perry, but I’m of the opinion that Romney needs someone that’s more well-known as a strong conservative for his VP.

  • acat

    I like Condi. She’s pragmatic, she’s got foreign policy experience, she’s got a compelling narrative…

    I don’t think she brings a single Values Voter to the ticket, though .. and they’re the ones Romney is both struggling to reach, and who will interpret a Social Conservative veep as meaningful.

    Mew