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It’s surprising to see the level of support that Governor Romney has in California. He hasn’t really given the state much attention yet. It was Senator John McCain that was the last 2008 GOP contender to make the big appearance and press conference with California Governor Schwarzenegger. McCain even tried to force Schwarzenegger’s endorsement. Yet Romney appears to be the Republican frontrunner there.

Respondents included 313 of the 386 members of the Democratic National Committee and 133 of the 165 Republican National Committee members. Because the poll taken Feb. 13 to Feb. 26 did not utilize a random sampling, there is no margin of error, the Times said.
Republican Party leaders were concerned about their grip on the presidency with 42 percent predicting a tough battle on the heels of George W. Bush’s tenure. More than half of the Republicans said their nominee should campaign with the message of moving the country in a new direction, the Times said. –Clinton, Romney Favored by Parties, March 3, 2007

Also check this quote from an oped in www.insidebayarea.com

On National Review’s post-election cruise down the coast of Mexico, 450 conservative activists mulled over, among other things, the prospects for 2008. These were not just flag-waving rednecks, but people serious and knowledgeable enough about politics to plunk down the money to spend a week discussing its finer points with the likes of Bill Buckley, Norman Podhoretz and Victor Davis Hanson. So I was interested when a panelist one day asked those in the audience who favored McCain in 2008 to raise their hands. A respectable number did. Then he called for those preferring Giuliani and about the same number so indicated. Finally, he asked for the Romney supporters — and a huge number of hands shot up, more than the preceding demonstrators’ combined.

The article goes on to discuss the recent Conservative Political Action Conference.

Now we have the results of the straw poll taken at last week’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. This is the biggest annual event in conservative politics (6,000 attended this year), and once again it simply won’t do to diminish the political know-how of the participants. Since November, McCain has dimmed a bit (he was the only one of eight Republican presidential hopefuls who didn’t bother to show up and speak) and Giuliani’s star has risen higher than ever in the sky. (Polls show him leading the field among Republican voters and beating Hillary if the Democrats pick her.) Moreover, Romney has by now, as noted above, been heavily attacked for his “flip-flops.”But lo and behold, the straw poll at CPAC showed Romney beating both Giuliani and McCain! The shrewd politicians there were trying to tell the Republican Party something and it had better listen. —-The Scramble for the Presidency, March 6, 2007

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