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.
Who on my list is a RINO, can you name one?
Exactly!
Mitt and Huck have not practiced consistent Conservative principles, and their slights aren’t modest ones. They are HUGE ones. Mitt instituted basically a tax on you for breathing with his “mandatory health care” nonsense, and lets not even get into the fact we are dealing with gay “marriage” in this nation because of his complete ineptitude in handling that issue in MA. Huck is so out there he things law breakers should be allowed to be citizens with a stroke of a pen.
No candidate is perfect, but these two try to sell themselves as ideological conservatives when they clearly aren’t. I don’t expect perfection, but I do expect consistency of principle, sometimes you lose the battle, but you don’t back down from your stand even when you lose if its based on a principle you believe. Mitt and Romney are laughable when they try to sell themselves and the heir to Reagan.
Sarah ain’t perfect either, but I see far more deeds to match her words than either of those two.
I just want someone who is honest about where they stand, why they stand that way, and I can have faith will back those stands up with actions that are consistent to their claimed beliefs. I won’t agree with them all the time, but at least I know where they stand, and that’s more important to me than anything else. I don’t want another Fauxbama with a different letter beside his name who will say anything to win an election and will do whatever they want afterwards.
Huckabee has effectively used the media to promote himself. Huckabee’s mug is plastered on all over on FNC. First there is his Weekend show, then he makes several pundit appearances on Greta, Hannity, O’Reilly, and Fox & Friends. Plus ABC affiliate radio stations run the Huckabee report, a weekly radio commentary that Huckabee gives on the issue of the week. In Chicago, the Huckabee report is broadcasted run after Rush’s show. Thus giving him a big audience to speak to. This is a big reason why Huckabee is leading the 2012 primary. Sarah needs to do something similiar.
**Romney is a republican, but he is NOT the heir to Reagan conservatism that he wants ...**
After inflicting a version of Obamacare on Mass.. that THEY call ROMNEYCARE... Reagan is the LAST COmparison he should be making... DUKAKIS, maybe.
I would think so...
Exactly, and that’s why he got booted last primary, he spent millions of his own money because no one else would give him any trying to sell himself as the heir to Reagan, and it was laughable on its face.
He effectively signed a bill that taxed people for breathing, then touted it as a great thing!!
You can’t claim to be a serious principled conservative with FauxbamaCare part in your “accomplishments” column.
I will be happy if Palin ends up being our nominee, because it will mean she solved her problems and will have found a way to attract majority support.
I wouldn’t appoint her our nominee if I had the power right now, because without some major work, she doesn’t look electable at this time. I could be wrong about that, but fortunately the election process gives us ample opportunity to see, at the ballot box, whether Palin is or is not electable.
No, not that message (that message is true, but irrelevant, as we all sin). I’m talking about the message of the THREAD, which is the poll numbers for Palin.
As a Palin supporter this doesn’t worry me a whole lot. All she has to do is run and run on principle and they people will come around to her. Debates, rallies, fundraising, those are the things that matter. I trust Ras but it’s just too early. I didn’t even know Huckabees name until 2007 or maybe even 2008, shows you how stuff can change. We are 3 years away. One huge silver lining here: let the left (and others) think she is toast so that they won’t be as motivated to destroy her. Then she can take them by surprise in 2012.
Go Sarah!!!!!
A Huckester supporter started this thread along with others like it.
He has the same rants sounding like one of the
Fred Phelps radical Culture Nazis on other threads.
This person can’t stand women who besides being wives, mothers, are also successful in their career.
This person believes women should be June Clevers,
seen and not heard.
How will the poll look AFTER the book comes out?
I bet the numbers flip
**He has the same rants sounding like one of the
Fred Phelps radical Culture Nazis on other threads.**
And has be properly ZOTTED.
One of his fat ass sons was tossed out of the boy scouts for killing a dog.
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That idiot pushed his luck a bit too far.
His gratuitous trashing of Sarah Palin was obvious.
He can go back to his Fred Phelps and continue his
culture Nazi routine
These polls mean nothing this far away. Huckster is liberal on everything other than abortion. He’s basically a pro-life Democrat who calls himself a Republican. He will never be the nominee.
Troll.
Shor Yu Ken!
Not surprising since the media would pump up either of these two RINO’s right up to the point where they got the nomination. Then they would start playing the videos of Romney promising to protect Roe v. Wade, and advance the homosexual agenda. Then they would start running the stories about Huckabee calling illegals “God’s Children” and investigating Huckabee blocking a police investigation of his dog torturing idiot of a son.
We let the left pick our last candidate and now we have to sit back and watch a band of marxist / Maoist radicals shred the Constitution.
I have an idea, we might lose anyway, since the media will ultimately demonize any GOP nominee. But let’s pick a candidate that will energize the base so we have a chance and if we’re going to go down, let’s go down swinging.
Rudy gave up early. If he had run a good campaign, I think he could have beat obongo.
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