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Myth & the "Mittens", Are @ it again.
2008 Redux.
Posted on 10/19/2009 7:48:35 AM PDT by DanZanRyu
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s forthcoming autobiography has been at the top of the Amazon book charts for weeks, and it hasn’t even been released yet. At least in the eyes of the political Left, she is now perhaps America’s most visible national Republican.
But new Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveying finds Palin losing handily in face-to-face march-ups with her two likeliest challengers for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Among likely Republican primary voters, Palin now trails former Arkansas governor-turned-Fox-TV-host Mike Huckabee by 20 points – 55% to 35%.
When her opponent is ex-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Palin loses by 15 – 52% to 37%.
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When given a list of five candidates and asked who they would vote for in 2012, 29% of Republican voters nationwide say Huckabee, while 24% prefer Romney and 18% Palin.
In July, it was close to a three-way tie: 25% said Romney, 24% Palin and 22% Huckabee.
It’s noteworthy that Huckabee’s gains since July are matched almost precisely by Palin’s decline. That suggests a large pool of voters are committed to choosing between two candidates routinely dismissed as unacceptable in the eyes of Republicans in Washington, DC. At the moment, 47% prefer either Huckabee or Palin while 42% prefer a candidate more acceptable to Republican political leaders. That divide is also reflected, with similar results, in a Huckabee-Romney head to head match-up.
Twenty-one percent (21%) of primary voters also say Palin is the GOP candidate they would least like to see win the party’s presidential nomination. Just nine percent (9%) say the same of Romney, and eight percent (8%) feel that way about Huckabee.
Support for Huckabee and Romney against Palin is nearly the same among both men and women. Suggesting that Romney’s Mormon faith may still be a problem among some Christian conservatives, Palin leads him by 14 points – 52% to 38% - among GOP primary voters who describe themselves as Evangelical Christians. But Romney beats Palin by 26 points among other Protestants – 58% to 32% - and holds similar winning margins among Catholic voters and those of other faiths.
On the other hand, Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, beats Palin by 17 points among Evangelical Christians and 29 points among other Protestants. A similar spread is evident among Republican voters of other faiths, but Huckabee has just an eight-point edge over Palin among Catholic voters.
Earlier polling showed that Palin trails Hillary Clinton in a general election match-up.
In early July, 40% of Republican voters nationwide said Palin’s decision to resign as governor of Alaska hurt her chances of winning the party’s presidential nomination in 2012.
IATZ but
I smelled ozone as soon as I read it.
“whatever the polls say i feel very strongly that any pubbie candidate must be supported by Palin or they have no chance.. She may not be the one at this time but many will be looking to see if she can back the candidate.”
I think she knows that she won’t be president and already accepted it. But she will do everything she can to promote the conservative message and if a candidate is too liberal for her, Palin will make her voice heard and it will be powerful.
..and when Palin served as governor, she applied Conservative values while Huckabee was a nanny-state RINO. Oh, and if you want to go into 'children sinning', why don't we chat about Huckabee's kids?
Agreed.
“and when Palin served as governor”
for only 2 years. We don’t know what she’d do if she served for 4 let alone a second term.
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Myth & the "Mittens", Are @ it again.
2008 Redux.
According to the Tax Foundation, the state and local tax burden on the average Arkansan increased from 10.1 per cent to 11.3 per cent under Huckabee. When he came into office in 1996, Arkansas ranked 30th in the nation as the state with the highest taxes. When he left at the beginning of this year, it had risen to 13th. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/01/huckabees_record_on_taxes.html
The evidence of Huckabee's record as governor... is that he helped create Arkansas as a sanctuary state, serving the interest of the Arkansas corporations that wanted to exploit the cheap labor readily available from an open flow of illegal immigrants. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=45060
He has issued more commutations and pardons than all of the six neighboring states combined. http://www.arkansasleader.com/frontstories/st_08_11_04/huckabee8.html
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0108/Rush_Huck_not_a_conservative.html
Rush: Huck Not a Conservative
Aww...the OP has ridden the lightning! LOL!
You can only speculate based on evidence and that evidence points to continuing to serve as a conservative. Even her resigning was tied with those values as the lawsuits and bogus complaints where costing the State and her family- she kept her priorities straight.
DanZanRyu is...err, was...a Huckabee troll! LOL!
OK, then what exactly is your drift? That you’re “one of the few that has seen how powerful the Dark Side has become”? How does that fit in with Sarah, and you being a “fan”?
Lots of us here see what is happening to the country, yet we don’t invoke images of Chancellor Palpitine or Darth Vader in our posts.
Tell us - exactly what are you talking about???
CA....
I will say, thank you for posting this. Now, when people search on a comparison of Palin and Huckabee, this thread pops up in Google results and they can see all the FReepers debunking the Huckabee is a Conservative myth. You have done Huckabee a disservice by your trolling. Have a nice day.
The independent support Christie enjoyed over the summer is lost to Daggett.
The Jersey race might serve as a template for Obama’s re-eelction bid. Soros might decide to fund several 3rd party candidates to protect Obama.
Lets see Sarah sins so he is a better person so he gets your vote?
When Carter was running back in 1976 is when he was the “nice guy” and I don’t refer to his more recent trashing of Israel.
Huck is pro-Israel, but I’m sure Sarah Palin is just as pro-Israel as Huckabee.
Romney is a republican, but he is NOT the heir to Reagan conservatism that he wants and tries to sell himself as, which is why he will be a disaster.
McCain wasn’t leading initially either.
These polls this early are worthless.
Do you fully comprehend the import of that statement?
Ross Perot was a businessman (who reaped much of his wealth fro government contracts) who decided to run for president on a “business man type platform”. For whatever that was worth.
A lot of people were taken by his “outsider” image without really looking behind the gloss his campaign reflected.
All he accomplished as a 3rd party candidate was the reelection of Bill Clinton, and after the fact, even Perot admitted it was “the biggest damn mistake of my life”.
Perot, though an interesting character, was no conservative, and a lot of his ideas were off-the-wall.
Given this, how do you see her as “the next Ross Perot”, and how is all this affected by the Dark Side?
CA....
They have already cast her out into the dark!!!
Put down the bong. Huckster is a RINO.
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