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.
Huckster can go pound sand.
I’m not throwing away my vote on that nannystate shmuck any more than I would for mcloon or romneycare.
None of them are worth a second though, or a first for most reasonable people.
You'll find a forum here that meets your needs.
What’s your problem with Palin?
Excellent post, my brother! Shalom!
“Palin said a 2 state solution is the solution. I don’t think so!”
Link verification would nice.
If I am not mistaken did not Gov. Palin have a framed Iseral flag in the shape of a triangle hanging on the wall in her Gov. Offices.
Not enough will support Palin. Having lived in Alaska I know.
Sorry dude, but you’re not any different from the Freepers who’ve tried to tell me that Duncan Hunter would be POTUS now if only Rush Limbaugh had promoted him...
Rudy will make an excellent Attorney General or Governor of New York.
Number seven, if we can keep Huckabee in the race all the way through, thus preventing McCain or Romney from gaining enough delegates to win the nomination, then maybe, just maybe a deadlocked convention might seek out another candidate. One who can re-unite the Reagan Coalition, save the GOP, and put us back on the conservative track. Of course, my personal favorite to be that man would be FRed Thompson.
Vote for this guy so we can get Fred Thompson to the White House...my, that's a ringing endorsement. Did you also think Rush Limbaugh was really trying to get Hillary Clinton elected?
No worries, Mr. S....I’ll vote for the GOP nominee (as I have for decades). Most of us will...with exception of those who peel off to a 3rd party. In the meantime, the Left will stick together and cheat. And, I’m sure we’ll prevail.
There, now everybody is blissfully back in the box.
There, now everybody is blissfully back in the box.
LOL............. gotta keep’em happy and peace amongst the family..........
You’re not bedwetting over that are you? Don’t worry, be happy. It’s in the bag.
Just saying, third parties are disasters.
Just saying, third parties are disasters................. But the loser will win, so its not a disaster, its a blessing for the loser. If anyone gets 37% they’ll win and the 63% that voted against him will lose.
I’m another.
BTW, has the worthless troll who started this thread met the lightning yet? ZOT!
If you think the voting will go that way, review Perot, Ross...Andersen, John...Thurmond, Strom...Wallace, George...
I’m not comparing Palin to any of those guys as far as ideology, but the bottom line is that in Presidential elections with a strong third party, there’s a winner, a loser and a huge loser, and the huge loser is always the third party candidate.
Besides, I stand with Reagan! The GOP is our party, not McCain’s or Romney’s, and I say take it back!
Yeah, he’s dead, Jim.
Because McCain’s campaign programmed her answers last year.
Now she can have a mind of her own.
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