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.
Romneycare covers hair dye?
If she can't own a loser like Huck in the primary,y she's not up for the task of taking on the zero.
You're not. If someone amazing (and new--not part of the GOP insiders crowd already mentioned) comes along, I'll consider him or her, but right now there's no one but Palin out there.
Wow, so you are now claiming Huck saved every soul he tried to??? I doubt even Huck would make that claim. How about yourself? Have you saved every soul you attempted to? Given even Christ nor Paul/Saul managed that task, I have to chaulk your criteria up to insanity on this one.
Are you serious? If this is how we're going to come across in 2012, we may as well just declare Obama the Emperor of the Social States of America, under the supreme jurisdiction of the UN.
First of all, voting doesn't happen for three years, and that will be preceded by a campaign.
Second, it's not at all clear to me that Future President Palin's best route to Pennsylvania Avenue lies in the Republican Party.
Here in New Hampshire, the GOP brand is so badly damaged that I don't think it could do anything but hurt a candidate.
Brother, you need to get a grip on what is expected of a Christian and what isn’t. And as far as resigning is concerned, Palin had no choice. Unprecedented political and media persecution was making her life and her family’s a living hell.
If the GOP chooses Huck or Myth Man, Obama wins.
Palin is the wild card.
The poll is useless period. The GOP presidential primaries are YEARS away.
- JP
Oh, wait. The election isn’t for another three years.
Doom on Rasmussen.
It doesn’t have to be Sarah per se, but it has to be someone who gets it. Not some slimeballs who fencesit and hedge. Huck and Mitt don’t remotely “get it”.
Michael Vick ~ Rush ~ hanging dogs ~ you, my friend, are THE ONE who let this thread “go to the dogs”!
Did Huckabee's son do this? I hadn't heard about this.
Trolls without sin cast the first stones.
- JP
Insert “same old Republican brand” here. I am for the Third Party if the Pubes keep selling the same old Ford Pinto.
Are you joking? Gov Palin's daughter is responsible for you her own life and sin. She is an adult. It is NOT the responsibility of Gov Palin to win Levi's soul but of the Holy Spirit and Levi. It is his choice. MH doesn't save anyone. MH is a big government Christian.
When I left Arkansas... State Income tax rate was 3% and 6%...the Rich rate kicked in at 27,000. Sales tax on everything ... EVEN FOOD. and SALES TAX in my County was 11.25%. not exactly the Example of CHRISTIAN RESTRAINT!
Remember the last “REAL (self proclaimed)CHRISTIAN” we had for President... JIMMY CARTER!!!
HALLELUYAH and Pass the KOOLAID!
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