December 01, 2005

Are Governors Really The Future Of The GOP?

At today's Hotline/UVA American Democracy conference, moderator Chuck Todd gave the five Republican pollsters and strategists a task : list the top tier of Republican presidential candidates.

The responses:

Tony Fabrizio: McCain, Allen, definitely ... and then, maybe, Giuliani. And Huckabee, possibly.

Craig Shirley: McCain, Allen and possibly Gingrich.

Kellyanne Conway: McCain, Allen, maybe "Speaker Newt"

John Brabender: McCain, Allen, and, possibly, Santorum (his current client), who Fabrizio noted is amassing an enormous list of donors for his '06 race that'd be a big boon for an '08 race.

Linda DiVall: McCain, Allen and... the third slot is open.

Not one mentioned Mitt Romney, and only one of them mentioned a sitting governor -- Fabrizio's sense that Huckabee could unite the various wings of the GOP.

And they all agreed that SecState Condi Rice was a wild card.

Posted at 02:59 PM

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BSR

BSR | 12.02.05 01:23 PM

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