Mitt Romney 3rd On Blogosphere Poll

With the midterm elections behind them, Republicans and Democrats alike are looking ahead to the 2008 presidential campaign. As speculation of who is being primed for the candidacy unfolds, the prospects for Governor Mitt Romney are looking good.

On a popular conservative news blog, Hotair.com, I took a poll on likely GOP candidates in 2008, and among the pool of likely candidates Romney was high on the list. Of the 8,100 or so submissions - blogosphere wide - Romney came in third. Barely behind Giuliani and about 5 percentage points behind the leader, Newt Gingrich. For those of you who may want to take the poll or see the results here are the two links: Poll Rankings

While browsing for a picture of Mitt, I stumbled onto an economist article that's a couple of months old but even more intriguing after the midterms. In the article Romney is described as a "scarily perfect presidential candidate," yet he has one major hurdle to overcome, his religion.

A strikingly high percentage of voters said that they would not vote for Romney based on his affiliation to the LDS church (37% to be exact). However, the article reminds us of the following tidbit from our political history:

... 37% is certainly not an encouraging figure. But back in 1960 35% of people told pollsters that they would have qualms about voting for a Catholic, and in that year a Catholic reached the White House.

So, despite the odds Romney is still a likely candidate, who in my opinion deserves a shot at the white house. I think he is at least a viable Vice-Presidential candidate. But, let's put the question to the public... what is your opinion of the man they call Mitt?