The field is wide open with many weak and unqualified candidates being spoken of by the pundits. Serious candidates (seriously sad, actually) include Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty, and Mitt Romney. No one you'd want to vote for, and the others are worse.
Olympia Snowe would be a good candidate but she'd never make it through the primaries. Oh, I almost forgot Basil Marceaux. He looks as if he is polling well vs President Obama, getting 25%, and he has low negatives.
According to everything I've read, the presumptive Republican presidential candidates for 2012 are Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Chris Christie, Tim Pawlenty, and Basil Marceaux. Not every article mentions them all, but those are the names I've seen. See: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/2012-republican-presidential-hopefuls-090710 http://wonkette.com/417386/poll-data-on-all-top-2012-presidential-candidates-collected-including-presumptive-gop-nominee-basil-marceaux http://www.americanindependent.com/160490/poll-obama-would-still-win-michigan-today This Wikipedia article has a much longer list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012.
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