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33% of GOP Voters Say It Would Be Good If New Candidate Entered Presidential Race


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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

While many pundits have taken to describing the race for the Republican nomination as a two-man competition, a third of all voters nationwide think it would be good for the GOP if someone else jumped into the fray.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 34% of Likely U.S. Voters think it would be good for Republicans if another candidate entered the race for the party’s presidential nomination. But nearly as many (31%) say it would be bad for the party, while 24% believe it would have no impact. Twelve percent (12%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The national survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on January 23-24, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

33% of GOP Voters Say It Would Be Good If New Candidate Entered Presidential Race - Rasmussen Reports™

The problem is that getting a GOP candidate that the majority of Conservatives can trust and throw 100% into is < less than 33%!