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The idea of President Palin hits a granite wall
The Washington Post's Post Partisan ^ | February 15, 2011 | Jonathan Capehart

Posted on 02/15/2011 4:21:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

One too many political tea-leaf readers say that Sarah Palin, with her rock-star personality, loyal following and outsized influence on the Republican Party, could jump into the 2012 presidential race at the last minute and run off with the GOP nomination for president. This is in defiance of consistent and plain evidence that Palin is going nowhere fast.

Now a new poll from the University of New Hampshire only adds to the brief against her running. Among likely Republican voters, the former governor of Alaska garnered just six percent support. Blowing out the field was former next-door Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.) with 40 percent. Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who came in fourth during the New Hampshire primary in 2008, came in second with 10 percent.

Now, here's where the news is really bad for Palin. Romney has a net favorability rating among likely Republican primary voters at a solid 57 percent. Palin has a net negative favorability rating of -17 percent. That puts her at the bottom of the list of GOP White House hopefuls. There is one silver lining. At least she beats the publicity-hungry Donald Trump. His net favorability rests in the cellar at -43 percent.

Lots can change between now and when the New Hampshire primary actually happens early next year. And we all know that winning the Granite State doesn't mean the nomination is secured. Just ask my MSNBC colleague Pat Buchanan, who snatched the state from Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) in 1996, or Sen. John McCain, who lost it to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush during the nomination race of 2000.....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; Polls; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2012; fakepoll; fakepoll4romney; freepressforpalin; gaypropaganda; palin; polls; romneycare; sarahpalin; stenchofromney
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Look up Obama sycophant in the dictionary. Chances are there's a photo of Jonathan. Plus, Mitt Romney LIVES in New Hampshire, knucklehead!
1 posted on 02/15/2011 4:21:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yet more liberal wishful...


2 posted on 02/15/2011 4:23:10 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Give Sarah a granite wall and she will climb it.


3 posted on 02/15/2011 4:26:27 PM PST by mountainlion (The government is not my god no matter how much they preach.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What the reality of Sarah Palin does to liberals, maggot infected gays posing as journalists/writers, lesbians, abortion queens, and of course the kind and gentle Rinos:


4 posted on 02/15/2011 4:26:57 PM PST by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any poll showing Mitt Romney in the lead is manifestly flawed.


5 posted on 02/15/2011 4:27:10 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
☆☆☆☆☆ SP12 ☆☆☆☆☆
6 posted on 02/15/2011 4:27:10 PM PST by barbarianbabs (tuesday is soylent red day)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

My comment to Capeheart will be that who ever wins will beat the inept Obummer. Obummer is his boy, when the Newsweek writer slammed Obama the other day on Scarborough, he about cried lol.

Palin will be fine btw.


7 posted on 02/15/2011 4:28:42 PM PST by rbmillerjr (I will not, under any circumstances, vote for Mitt Romney....none.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is just empty babble by a nobody.


8 posted on 02/15/2011 4:28:58 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

anti Palin Republicans are mostly secular country club republicans who want more socialism.

im losing faith in our chance to save our country. they idiots are hurting their country bad and they dont even know it !


9 posted on 02/15/2011 4:29:31 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative (Palin or 3rd party... no exceptions !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a sexist world. IMO


10 posted on 02/15/2011 4:29:37 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (They don't need to do another 911. They have BHO.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

List of straw polls that Palin has won recently:

1)townhall.com (January)

2)HA poll by Patrick Ishmael (over last 3 days)

3)NRO poll (over last 2 days)

4)ACE OF SPADES poll three weeks ago

5)Right Scoop poll last weekend

6)Current American Spectator poll

My friends something is afoot despite what MSM pollsters are trying to disseminate.


11 posted on 02/15/2011 4:31:34 PM PST by techno
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To: muawiyah

Well I read the sample of this poll was 357 and thats it. A poll with a sample that size is statically flawed.


12 posted on 02/15/2011 4:31:39 PM PST by Clyde5445 (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: All; little jeremiah

Palin makes the maggot infested gays posing as journalists go totally insane.

Here is the record of the maggot writings his wet dream posing as an oped and/or news:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Jonathan+Capehart+%2B+gay&ei=utf-8&fr=b1ie7


13 posted on 02/15/2011 4:34:03 PM PST by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: Clyde5445

Even if it were 753 it’d be flawed ~


14 posted on 02/15/2011 4:35:06 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The little poofter is certainly worked up over Sarah. Maybe he needs to follow Dana Milbank in taking the ‘No Palin’ pledge.
15 posted on 02/15/2011 4:37:38 PM PST by JPG (Work for conservative change like your country depended on it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin Hate


16 posted on 02/15/2011 4:37:40 PM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shows how scared they are of her.


17 posted on 02/15/2011 4:38:32 PM PST by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s probably Sarah’s to lose. I just hope West is her VP pick


18 posted on 02/15/2011 4:38:35 PM PST by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The early primary states only relate to one thing and it is PORK!!! Whichever candidates promises the most pork wins.

As most freepers realize Gov. Palin is a true REFORMER like Reagan and Christi, she will not be promising any PORK to these states ERGO no winny the primary...
19 posted on 02/15/2011 4:39:34 PM PST by Fred (Suspend All Immigration Until Unemployment is Reduced to 5%)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At this point in Poppy Bush’s term, the Democrats’ presidential hopes for 1992 were going nowhere fast. All the polls said so.


20 posted on 02/15/2011 4:41:21 PM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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