Who will run for the 2012 presidency?

Here are the latest Intrade percentages for 2012 Republican Presidential nominee:

Mitt Romney 25.2
Sarah Palin 19.2
John Thune 15.8
Newt Gingrich 10.4
Tim Pawlenty 8.2
Mitch Daniels 7.1
Mike Huckabee 6.1
Jeb Bush 4.6
Ron Paul 4.6
Bobby Jindal 3.4
Chris Christie 2.3
Jim DeMint 2.3
David Petraeus 1.3
Mike Pence 1.2
Gary Johnson 1.1
Jon Huntsman 1.0
Haley Barbour 0.9
Paul Ryan 0.8
Rick Perry 0.7
Rick Santorum 0.6
Rudy Giuliani 0.5
Scott Brown 0.5
Tom Coburn 0.5
Joe Scarborough 0.4
Mich. Bloomberg 0.4
George Pataki 0.4
Eric Cantor 0.3
Marco Rubio 0.3
Charlie Crist 0.1
Fred Thompson 0.1
John Kasich 0.1
Bob Corker 0.1
Joe Lieberman 0.1
Colin Powell 0.1
Lou Dobbs 0.1
Mark Sanford 0.1-

(These are average of bid and ask, rounded down to 1 decimal place.)

Other contracts can be traded at Intrade, e.g.
Higgs Boson Particle to be observed on/before 31 Dec 2012: bid 24.0 ask 44.9
Japan to announce it has acquired a nuclear weapon before midnight ET on 31 Dec 2012: bid 11.0 ask 29.9

Can you imagine the next election cycles with no limit on spending? If money can buy elections, it will.

We will find that out here in CA this upcoming General Election for Governor.

However, PG&G lost their little push, and that was big bux vs pennies, so there’s hope.

Since the Dems will be horribly outspent, they should run Alvin Greene. He shows the ability to win with no money, no organization and no campaigning. He has found the way and should teach other politicians.

It will not matter in the long run which leftist commie the dems will run in 2010. People across the nation have seen the error of electing this scum for anything.

This man is correct. I wouldn’t vote for Obama in 2010 for anything.

Hmmmm.

:: Quietly signs up bullrun for an “Obama 2012” lawn sign ::

Seriously. By electing Obama we totally missed out on the opportunity to start even more pointless wars. You should have stayed the course, America!

It will also give her the opportunity to give a few ghost written speeches, like her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. That speech was excellent. It temporarily pushed John McCain ahead in the polls. I wonder if Sarah knew what all the big words meant.

John McCain had nothing to offer the economy but more tax cuts for the rich, and more military spending. We saw how well that worked when Bush was president.

Rasmussen Reports Tuesday, June 22, 2010

U.S. voters think Hillary Clinton is more qualified to be president than Barack Obama, but most believe that both Democrats are more fit for the White House than three top Republicans interested in the job.


Rasmussen Reports usually finds the electorate to be to the right of what other polling agencies report. If this holds up, 2012 should be a good year for the Democrats. :smiley:

I suspect you may have missed the point of my post.

I think the Republicans will pick Newt to run for president.

One hundred dollars says they don’t.

He got better.

Unfortunately, he really didn’t.

Paul Ryan… fiscal conservative, young, smart, knowledgable about everything political, no radical views, pro free enterprise yet gets support from some of the local labor leaders because he is a compriser, pro smaller but more effective & effecient government, charsmatic with boy next door done good looks… sadly has said he wouldn’t run as his kids are too young to expose them to the media craziness that surrounds being in the White House…

He didn’t move to the right. He didn’t even move to the left, but the party moved under his feet. He’s now a moderate or even liberal (!) republican.

Yes, and the purity tests that he’d instantly fail means he wouldn’t get anywhere near…well, anything really.

-Joe

Apropos of nothing, I just heard my home town of Tampa, Florida, will host the 2012 Republican Convention.