Rubio Tops GOP Running Mate Poll
CNN reports that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are the names that come up the most when Republicans are asked who they would like to see as their party’s vice presidential nominee, according to a new survey.
Rubio is mentioned 66 times in a study conducted by Fairleigh Dickenson University’s PublicMind poll.
Santorum, the former senator from Pennsylvania who in the past week and a half has surged to front-runner status in the race for the GOP nomination, is mentioned as the running mate 56 times, with Christie grabbing 47 mentions.
The national survey questioned Republicans and independent voters who lean towards the GOP.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP running mate in 2008, was mentioned 35 times, with two presidential candidates, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with 32 mentions and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas with 30 mentions, close behind.
Michele Bachmann has virtually disappeared from vice-presidential sight, according to the survey.
She grabbed 60 mentions in the December survey, just 16 mentions now.
The Fairleigh Dickenson University poll was conducted February 6-12, with 799 Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP questioned by telephone.
The survey’s sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
