CEOs prefer Mitt Romney as the GOP’s presidential candidate next November, according to an exclusive poll from ChiefExecutive.net. Over 43 percent of CEOs chose Romney as their preferred candidate while 25.6 percent choseanother CEO candidate, Herman Cain.
Romney and Cain are thetwo clear front-runners, followed by John Huntsman, who received8.1 percent of CEO support. Newt Gingrich received 7.3 percent of the vote, Rick Perry had 5.1 percent, Ron Paul had 2.6 percent, Rick Santorum had 2.1 percent and Michelle Bachmann took just 0.9%.
Though the CEO vote in itself isn’t enough to change the outcome of elections, it is extremely important. With immense influence, powerful donor networks and their own cash for campaign contributions, any candidate with the backing of America’s CEOs will have an advantage over the other candidates.
In the Republican field, three candidates have CEO experience. Mitt Romney served as co-founder and general partner of Bain Capital, CEO of Bain & Company and CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games Organizing Committee. Herman Cain served as CEO of Godfathers Pizza. Jon Huntsman is the son of the founder of the multi-billion revenue conglomerate Huntsman Corp. and served as CEO of his family’s investment company.
CEOs prefer Romney and they believe that he will also appeal to the full Republican base: 79.2 percent believe Romney will take the GOP nomination. All other candidates trail far behind Romney; 10.3 percent think Perry is most likely to take the Republican nomination and 6.4 percent think Herman Cain will make his way onto the ballot.
Governor Perry’s favor has dropped significantly since ChiefExecutive.net’s September poll where 49.2 percent of CEOs thought Perry would take the nomination and27.9 percent of CEOs preferred Perry as the GOP’s presidential candidate. CEOs ranked Texas as the best state for business in Chief Executive’s 2011

Perry could win the bible belt and christian issues as Bush did,,,but Cain is seen as a politial jewel right now because of our economy and his apparent way to make 'profits',,, people tend to think that trend in business would make a success with a political economy as well,,,

Mitt Romney has raised far more money than Mr. Obama this year from the firms that have been among Wall Street’s top sources of donations for the two candidates.

but wall street wont be the only ones at the polls,, so it stands that Romney has a base and OBama has a base, but both bases will be at the polls and OBAMAS base has raised more at this point

Such a mistake in this day and age to place so much emphasis on money.

America is pissed.

MONEY and STUPID finger pointing adds will avail one only empty pockets.

Principles and Humanity...

People are looking for REAL.

Not more of...

Republican Aggressively Pursues the Rank and Filein Finance,” by Nicholas Confessore and Griff Palmer: “Mitt Romney hasraised far more money than Mr. Obama this year from the firms that have been among Wall Street’stop sources of donations for the two candidates. …The imbalance exists at large investment banks and hedge funds, privateequity firms and commercial banks, according to a New York Times analysis of the firms that accounted for the most campaign contributions from the industry to Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama in 2008 … It could widen as Mr. Obama … escalates his criticism of the industry… Romney has raised $1.5million from employees of firms like Morgan Stanley; Highbridge Capital Management, a hedge fund; and Blackstone, a private equity firm. Mr. Obama has raised just over$270,000 from firms that were among his leading sources of campaign cashin 2008. Employees of Goldman Sachs, who in the 2008 campaign gave Mr. Obama over $1 million — more than donors from any other private employer in the country — have given him about $45,000 this year. Mr. Romney has raised about $350,000 from the firm’s employees.
“Those figures do not account for all Wall Streetgiving, nor for the full force of each candidate’s robust network of Wall Street ‘bundlers’ … Obama … has raised closeto $100 million so far thisyear for his campaign, three times more than Mr. Romney, as well as$65 million for the Democratic National Committee. … Obama recruited about 100 bundlers during the three months ending Sept. 30 … Among the new recruits are Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul, who has raised more than half a million dollars for Mr. Obama; Roger C. Altman, a prominent investment banker who backed Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008 but has raised morethan $200,000 for Mr. Obama this year; and John E. Frank, a Microsoft executive, who has raised more than$500,000 for the president. Mr. Obama also recruited Amy Friedkin, a San Francisco philanthropist of Jewish causes and a former president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, who raised more than$200,000 for Mr. Obama.” http://nyti.ms/n5AfNN
THE BIG READ – NYT “The Long Run: A Mormon Manager -- For Romney, aRole of Faith and Authority,” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg in Belmont, Mass.: “From 1981 through 1994, he was a powerful figure in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is run almost entirely by volunteers beyond its headquarters in Salt LakeCity. First as bishop of his own congregation, and later as Boston ‘stake president,’ overseeing a region akin to a Roman Catholic diocese, he operated as clergyman, organization man and defender of the faith … Later, … he contributed handsomely to the construction of the grand— and controversial — Boston Temple, high on ahilltop in Belmont, … just minutes from the Romney home. “Mitt’s Temple,” some local residents called it derisively. … [H]ere in Belmont … Romney has traded his large home fora townhouse; just a few months ago, he stepped to the lectern during a Sunday service to deliver what Tony Kimball, a retired professor of government, called a ‘traditional Mormon testimony,’ in which he proclaimed his faith in Jesus as his savior. …
“Romney has an impeccable Mormon pedigree. His family traces its church lineage to 1837; a great-great-grandfather, Miles Romney, began following the first Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, that year, and later trekked to Utah with the early Mormon pioneers. As son of one of the nation’s most prominent Mormons — George W. Romney, a former Michigan governor and presidential candidate —Mitt Romney seemed destined for a prominentposition in the church. In 1971, Mr. Romney arrivedin Boston to attend a joint program at the Harvard Business and Law Schools. He had completed a Mormon mission in France, graduated from Brigham Young University and was already married with a son. On weekends,he and other young Mormons would take overnight bus trips to thenearest Mormon temple, outside Washington, to perform sacred rituals … ‘Most of us would yak or sleep on the bus, or read a book,’ recalled one of the participants, Helen Claire Sievers. ‘Mitt was always working.’”

Interesting year ahead!

Wait and see.

I wholeheartedly agree.........who cares who can raise the most money? Donations don't come gratis, usually something is assured in return coming at the expense of THE AMERICAN VOTER'S POCKET!

I dont necessarily think people get all warm and fuzzy when it comes to who raises money or how much.

I do think the REALITY Is that money is power and money talks so those with the most money (raised or otherwise) have more of the upper hand in this country. Whether it be in politics, or the economy, or in education,,,,,money talks. and talks loudly and often.

Just the thought of the hundreds of millions that will be spent by the candidates,the parties,and the PACs on this election turns mu stomach. No wonder the majority of Americans rightly believe that we have the best representatives and presidents money can buy. Obama's recent rhetoric on the abuse and corrupting power of Wall St would ring true if he rejected all contributions from the Wall St fat cats and challenged whoever his Republican opponent is to also reject their influence peddling through big campaign donations. Better yet, let's see if Obama would support the movement for a constitutional amendment mandating public financing of all elections. We need representatives who do what's in the best interests of the country rather than what's in the best interests of their biggest donors. End the legalized bribery of our politicians. Public financing of elections now.

Obama, Cain try to pin Romney as a creature
of Wall Street

The next phase of the GOP race: defining Romney… Get on the bus, Gus: Obama embarks on three-day bus tour through NC and VA… The Cain scrutiny cometh… Making sense of the GOP calendar: The Walking Dead (Month of February)… Romney and Paul are in NV in advance of tomorrow’s Vegas debate… Bachmann and Cain stump in AZ… And Huntsman files his candidacy papers in NH.
By NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Brooke Brower
*** Defining Romney : We’re about to enter thenext phase of the Republican presidential race, which could ultimately decide who wins the GOP nomination (and maybe the presidency, too): defining Mitt Romney. During this phase, his Republican rivals will begin to question his conservative bona fides. (When will we see the first anti-Romney TV ad?)And Team Obama will begin to portray him as a creature of Wall Street;in fact, Herman Cain on “Meet the Press” yesterday used a line you’ll probably see the Obama folks borrow if Romney becomes the nominee: “[Romney] has been more of a Wall Street executive; I have been more of a Main Street executive.” As we discovered in our recent NBC/WSJ poll, Republicans like Romney, but his GOP support is an inch deep (with a 16% VERY positive rating, versus 28% for Cain).