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.
It’s not like McCain didn’t have his own crew of desheveld thugs doing his bidding ~ do not credit The Huck with McCainiac victories.
DanZanRyu is a failed moderate!
DanZanRyu - Since Mar 1, 2009
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.
DanZanRyu, first person in over 2,000 years to never sin, all hail this dumb-f**k.
Here’s what folks are missing, the overwhelming number of people who call themselves Republican’s are McCain like Rino’s, it’s true. I keep telling folks Sarah must start a 3rd party, the Republican party will all out reject her, why? Because they aren’t conservatives folks, and you guys keep fighting for them and electing them thereby damaging our country ...
Taxes are not a “Christian issue” ~ Jesus said to pay and shut up about it ~ keep focused on God’s work.
Huckabee is fit to be the Christian President of America.
Oh, brother ! Is that the best you can do ? You need additional research in Christianity before you try another troll post.
You have GOT to be a troll. No one is this stupid on accident.
Any GOP nominee will be as a lamb to slaughter.
I do in West Virginia, and if you remember, that was a turning point. After it, Romney essentially lost all hope of taking the nomination away from McCain.
I agree. Nobody answers the phone any longer. I have caller ID, and if I don’t know who it is, I don’t answer.
So, who would have answered the phone, and talked to a pollster?
And what poll matters now any way? Once Sarah is out on her book tour, and her book is a best seller, she will begin to receive the support she deserves........
I won’t vote for Hucka-bee, or the the other guy, the RINO.........
I will NOT vote for the man.
You would think at some point the GOP would realize that conservatives will not accept more of the same.
**DanZanRyu is a failed moderate!**
NO .. he’s a failed LIBERAL TROLL!!
OR he drinking a Moderate form of Koolaid .. which probably tastes pretty BLAND!
...face-to-face march-ups....
^^^
March-ups?
Exactly... from a theological perspective... how does one fail at being a Christian?
Seriously.
DanZanRyu
Since Mar 1, 2009
And let's not forget your reprehensible comment that:
Palin’s grandson was born in sin. Palin failed to provide Biblical guidance to Bristol.
Huckabee raised his kids right. Also AR Dems attacked Huckabee with bogus ethic charges. However he stayed on and served 10 years as Governor. Why couldn’t Palin do the same. Huckabee is a Christian leader that America needs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364339/posts?page=58#58
Romney has flipped on social issues, so no Romney has not shown he shares the same values.
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