Posted on 11/16/2009 7:00:49 AM PST by PapaBear3625
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Republican voters say former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin shares the values of most GOP voters throughout the nation.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 21% of Republican voters disagree and think the 2008 vice presidential candidate does not share their values. Twenty percent (20%) are undecided.
By contrast, 74% of Republicans say their party’s representatives in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters nationwide over the past several years. Only 18% of Republican voters believe their elected officials have done a good job representing the base.
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Sarah speaks for the core of the party. Either the RINOs will be flushed out in 2010 or the Republican party will cease to exist.
More core!!! More core!!!
My Girl bump!
Sheesh., thats hard to fathom. Must be Northeasterners..
Which clearly tells me that 41% of the party are RINO’s.
“Only 18% of Republican voters believe their elected officials have done a good job representing the base. “
Nice job, RNC, GOP ;-)
59% of a minority party is not nearly enough to win a national election.
She shares a lot of my views. She is a lifetime NRA member (which gives the liberals fits and causes them to froth at the mouth). She also hunts and fishes. Because of the number of children that she has she also likes to do something that I like. She is anti abortion. In my humble opinion abortion is murder. Bring her on.
Probably...but if they won’t vote for her, it doesn’t matter *why.*
The question is, can she sell the other 41%?
“Which clearly tells me that 41% of the party are RINO’s.”
Versus 21% of the Rep. voters are RINO’s.
It is amazing to list to the experts concede that Palin appeals to the “base” or the “core” only to gone to say that the means she can’t get elected. No, what we need is someone more like John McCain! /Sarcasm
I hope Sarah continues to speak the truth and not worry about offending people with it.
Shine the light and let people decide whether they want to remain in darkness.
John 3:19 tells of the effect of the One she follows:
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Christian Group Questions Palin’s Pro-life Credentials
http://lesforlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/christian-group-questions-palins-pro.html
http://prolifeprofiles.com/palin
YES! Exactly!
Yeah, those same Northeasterners who elected Tom Harkin, Harry Reid, Kent Conrad, Barrack, Mary Landrieu, Carl Levin, Barbara Boxer, etc., etc., etc. Watch the beam in your eye, FRiend.
You are forgetting independents!!!
but the 41% think they could win without the remaining 59%
What did Ras conduct the poll at a Log Cabin Republican spa party?
I know Rasmussen is the most respected of the pollsters, but I wish there was information on the SPECIFIC values these “Republicans” find different from the rather traditional, down-the-line values of Sarah Palin.
Not 5%, or even 15% but 41%?!
I call Bull$hit.
I share her opinions. I also think that, especially by resigning, she’s made herself an embarrassment to my cause. I wonder how many of that 59 percent agree with me?
Then why did they vote them in?
Almost 2 to 1. More will jump on after the book tour. Run Sarah, run in 1012!
Heloooooooo GOP! Can you hear me now?
Not me.
Yeah, but who cares about winning. The election of 2008 clearly shows winning is an overrated goal.
>> Probably...but if they won’t vote for her, it doesn’t matter *why.* The question is, can she sell the other 41%?
That’s an interesting point.
I observe that when RINO John McCain was nominated, us conservatives were told we just needed to “hold our nose” and vote for him. IMHO pretty much all of us did. (Reasonable minds can disagree about that last statement, but I think it’s basically true).
Suppose Sarah Palin, who apparently has the support of nearly 60% of the (R)s, gets nominated. Would we be out of line if we insisted that the MINORITY RINOs hold their noses and vote for her?
It’s the 20% who are undecided is where Sarah has to direct her attention to.
Let’s see,
She Values her Faith and Family
She values Life
She values Freedom
She values Patriotism
She values the Constitution
She values a Strong Defense
She values Energy Independence
I am more interested in the values that the other 41% say that they don’t share. I know what she values, because she not only articulates them well, she lives them.
Hmmm...so the MSM is working hard to try to decide how best to fracture the electorate in the face of a Sarah Tsunami....
Independents are fleeing the socialist democrat party as well. After Oboma, people are going to be screaming for conservatism. There's still a years worth of Obomas damage to come.
from the snippets of sarah on oprah, she will implode.
Sarah was terrible. (but they were only a few seconds on tape)
Everyone’s on the bandwagon. I could give a flip about polls but that’s not what the poll takers want! They need to be talked about, need people to ask, ‘what do the polls say’ - they want to have people think ‘in mass’ to sway people. So much for clear thinking voters! Conservatives DON’T go with the flow and, yet, polls live by it and encourage it!
Can you point to a survey which shows a higher score for any other likely GOP contender?
Can you point to a survey which shows a higher score for any other likely Dem contender?
It will grow over the week.
Only 59% and 74%? Hmmm.
Looks like Palin and the Congressional Pubbies have a lot of work to do.
Are you kidding? Because of all the bogus law suits the rabid left had against her, Alaska had to pay a fortune to fight them. She left to save them - the taxpayers.
When she bowed out early, she also left a squeaky clean INCUMBANT in her place. An incumbent Republican would be harder to beat than a newbie. That was a brilliant move on her part.
I hope that her visits on the with Oprah and Barbara Walters don’t concentrate on Sarah the soap operah star.
How dose she fare with Independents?? Those are the votes she has to capture (specifically the conservative independents) to get elected.
Good post!
We have the MASSIVE crowds at the tea parties - THAT’S OUR Poll! They cast their vote then and it co$t them! IMO, that’s the real poll.
And some of the usual, transparent FR suspects are getting all excited about yet another piece of dubious propaganda trying to derail the Sarah Palin Express train.
If that 59% stay home in disgust at the Party Nominee, the Nominee’s supporters will be trying to win a national election with...
...wait for it...
...41% of a minority party.
May I suggest going with the choice of the 59%?
This is very good news! Her endorcement of candidates is going to matter to 60% of the GOP voters in primaries which will help us in our Rino hunting efforts.
Right now, she’s going around and meeting people on her book tour. She does best when she does not have the media as an intermediary. We will see what fruit this brings.
Get the picture? Oh, and watch out for the UV rays, they're a killer.
Oh yes! The same old tired worn out media puppets trying to make themselves relevant w/their propaganda. They cannot think for themselves - dead fish go w/the media flow.
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