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.
Huckabee doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of beating obama. He is too low key, too boring to compete against a mindless rock star.
Gomer Huckabee is a joke. He is a fiscal liberal who never met an illegal alien he didn’t like. If either Huckster or Mittens is the nominee, we’re screwed.
It has to be Palin or someone new we haven’t seen yet to beat the zero.
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I agree
Huckabee may be fit, he sure as hell can’t win.
Palin’s daughter sinned. Also Palin failed to win Levi’s soul for Christ.
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Are you a troll? You have got to be.
IATZ
You forgot one thing. She's also a WOMAN! I wonder how many more in the Republican Party look at the race the same way as you.
“It wasn’t the media that was the problem, it was people like Kim Chatman and Linda Kellen Biegel who were tying up the State’s legislature and courts in frivolous complaints that all were thrown out. They cost the State millions in their political games and most of Palin’s day was spent responding and dealing with that. “
of course the media is a problem for her. She didn’t even try to make her case on Fox News. Those frivolous complaints are behind her but she still doesn’t show up to make a case for herself when everyone assumed she was a quitter when she resigned. So why should we be so surprised to see her behind even Huckabee in the polls?
If you can’t effectively deal with people like Kim Chatman then you have no business dealing with people like Kim il Jung.
As much as I disliked it at the time, I've accepted that Palin did the right thing by resigning. The liberal jackals would have hurt Alaska to continue attacking her, and she is more effective where she is than she would have been in office.
Palin’s daughter sinned. Also Palin failed to win Levi’s soul for Christ. OTOH, Huckabee, as pastor, saved several souls for Christ.
My children sinned too, as did I ... and I'm guessing most people in your life, Huck's life, and Romney's life. When did being human become disqualifying for office? As for failing to win Levi's soul for Christ, the entire country (including Huck and Romney) failed to win Obama for Christ - he's the closest thing to the anti-Christ we have on earth today (I hope!). Again, is that disqualifying?
Huckabee is fit to be the Christian President of America.
We'll see how the election goes in three years, but I'd like to see Huckabee prove in the campaign that he can win. I'd also like to see Sarah Palin prove in the campaign that she can win. They are likely to be two of the front runners, and we'll see an honest measure of their potential to win and to govern well in the course of the campaign. I just pray that God will look on America with mercy in the next election. My children deserve to live free, and they can't afford another Obama term.
Saying that Palin is a “failed christian” is not very smart for a so-called christian.
Don’t mix up christianism and your political activism !
I think you are wasting your time since you give no arguments to prove your point
That’s Jim making a case for what he believes. I don’t see where he said “Free Republic Endorses Huckabee”. It is his site, yes, but I think if he wanted to make an endorsement clear, he would have. It is his site, but this site is also a community and I really don’ think, especially now, that you would have a majority of this community supporting Huck.
Also, in context, during the primaries, (as in the general) you support who you see is the best “on balance”- which doesn’t always mean they align 100% with your principles.
A lot of us supported McCain because on balance compared to Obama.. well, you know..
ttt
Huckabee
work across the asle, open border , Huckabee, is that the one...
you’re joking right????????????????????????
The poll we are discussing here was quite light density and diffuse ~ other techniques are needed.
**A lot of us supported McCain because on balance compared to Obama.**
NO ... many of us supported SARAH, and had to drag the dead RINO with her.. If not for sarah... I’d have stayed home and GOP be Damned for your choices.
some evangelicals will come out for HUckabee and they’ll not look at anything but his religion.
Hardly a candidate to beat bozo
indeed
a vote for HUckabee is a vote for open borders and to bring millions of 3rd world immigrants here.
If we’re going to bring immigrants then bring them who bring something with them like an education or trade we need here
Huckabee is a christian socialist in my eyes
the problem with you is that you only see the world through your eyes and those eyes is your religious ones.
Palin sinned, Palin failed to win the soul of Christ, Please.
Maybe a hundred years ago Huckabee might have won but voting for him today just because you think he has never sinned is pathetic.
He would never win a general election and be viewed as a radical christian which he is not but the fact is he would be viewed by independents as such.
better to let him whore himself out on the TV
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