The Republican base loves them some Donald Trump:
According to the latest national NBC/WSJ poll, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the hypothetical 2012 GOP pack with support from 21 percent of Republican primary voters -- followed by Trump and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 17 percent each, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 11 percent and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at 10 percent.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is at 6 percent, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann gets 5 percent, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum receives 3 percent and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour gets 1 percent.
Dave Weigel points out that national polls are pretty useless at this point, but isn't it a lot less crazy that Rudy Giuliani was leading at this point four years ago? Trump is literally just some guy with a TV show who started saying crazy stuff about the president's birth certificate, whereas Giuliani spent the years after 9/11 being the guy down on the street with "soot on his face."
