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.
And how the HECK is she a FAILED Christian????
Ouch!
Well, Romney or Huckabee, would be basically the Republicans doing their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in 2012.
I’d love to say Fauxbama will be so umpopular R’s could run a doughnut hole and win, but these guys are both disasters, R party really needs something better than them.
Romney gave us FauxbamaCare part I and Gay marriage, then tries to play like he’s Reagan’s heir, its insulting and rediculous. And don’t even get me started on Huck.
America needs better than these two.
The Huckster was espousing just the other day on his tv show about Obama’s poll ratings and how they didn’t mean a thing when it comes to the actual election. He cited the fact that the election wasn’t today and when it would be held there would be tons of money used to sway and shore up the voters.
That same analogy use by the Huckster can be used in this worthless poll citing the Huckster/Rommey as the winners today. The election isn’t today and the money hasn’t been used to sway/shore up the vote.
Palin quit her 1st term as Governor. Huckabee served 10 years as Governor.
Palin’s daughter sinned. Also Palin failed to win Levi’s soul for Christ. OTOH, Huckabee, as pastor, saved several souls for Christ.
Huckabee is fit to be the Christian President of America.
Who was the dem frontrunner in 2005? Where was Obama in 2005? Where was Hillary?
Bottom line: unless someone else mysteriously comes out of left field, if we can’t get Sarah, we may as well have Obama again.
Did she torture and hang a dog?
Explain.
No fan of Huckster’s populism but if Palin had his media savvy she’d be leading this poll. She let her herself get tagged as a lightweight early on by not being ready for prime time. Sure she knows Alaska/Energy but that wasn’t enought. Sure the liberal media screwed her but she knew they were out to get her and should have been ready for it.
Bobb Jindal (#1 on all the above’s VP list)
Does that Jindal fellar qualify as a ‘natural born citizen’?
Palin’s grandson was born into sin. Appearing with Palin will compromise McDonnell’s ability to provide Christian Leadership in Richmond.
DanZanRyu, being without sin and not being "born into sin", is allowed to cast this stone. However, it remains to be seen whether any of his children or grand children sin.
Huckabee is a big government conservative Christian.
I agree about MR.
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