Posted on 05/13/2013 2:33:52 PM PDT by drewh
The Lower 48 may not have seen the last of Sarah Palin.
The controversial ex-Alaska governor and former Republican vice presidential candidate is her party’s top choice in the upcoming race for the U.S. Senate, according to a new Harper Polling survey.
The poll found that, among likely Republican primary voters in the state, Mrs. Palin would take 32 percent of the vote. Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell is right on her heels with 30 percent, while former Senate candidate and tea party favorite Joe Miller comes in third with 24 percent the vote.
But 14 percent of the Republican primary electorate remains undecided, the poll says, meaning the contest could turn out dramatically different than the Harper survey now suggests.
Mrs. Palin’s favorability rating also is the highest of the three potential candidates. More than 60 percent of Alaska Republicans have a favorable opinion of her, while 30 percent harbor unfavorable feelings toward her. Mr. Miller and Mr. Treadwell have favorability ratings of 49 percent and 54 percent, respectively.
The winner of next year’s Republican primary will square off in November 2014 against first-term Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, who replaced the late Sen. Ted Stevens. Mr. Begich is considered a top target by GOP strategists in the midterm elections.
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So how’d that work out for Dole?
Hint Palin isn’t a RINO like Dole....
Meh....
Gang of Eight vs Fantastic Four?
Sounds good to me, too!
I’d take her in the Senate. She’d drive Reid nuts.
Oh, I’d love to see her in the Senate. May it be so!
I’d love to see her as President, too, but think it may be advantageous for her to have national office and coverage for 6-12 years, first.
If she wants to avoid fading from the political scene (and maybe she’s ok with that), she needs to jump on this opportunity. Miller is not going to run again.
I would love to see the team of Palin, Cruz, Rand and Lee take on the power of Harry Reed. (If harry is still speaker) We need her in Washington DC! There she can call out the Obama Machine.
>>>>Although I heard somewhere Miller was dissapointing?<<<
I live in Alaska, and you heard right. Miller lost the race through his own inept campaigning. I don’t like Lisa Murkowski much, but from an academic viewpoint, her write-in campaign was a masterpiece campaign that will be studied for generations to come. She managed to overcome very long odds, cobbled together a coalition of unlikely support, used the media like a pro to teach people (literally) how to do the write-in ballot, and had a number of advertisements that were beautifully constructed. Miller didn’t know what hit him.
Palin is reviled by the scattering of leftists here (there are some, especially in Los Anchorage), but she would run a great campaign. Begich is currently running ads telling us how conservative he is, which is like me claiming that I’m a trim and muscular dude who can run a 6-minute mile. Yeah, so it was 30 years ago. It was true once. :)
The GOP leadership in DC definitely needs a purging. Having Palin, Cruz, Rand and Lee as Senate leaders would be an epic gamechanger. Ofcourse the Left would go even more insane than they already are if that happens.
Why would she want to marginalize herself by associating with advocacy groups like those?
Think bigger, I’m sure Palin is.
To repeat. Becoming a Senator is a step backwards for Palin.....not a step up or forward. So far she seems to be following Ronnie Reagan’s path by speaking up on issues and building up support among pols seeking political office, thereby earning chits that can be redeemed at a later date.
Seeking a senatorial office would detract from those efforts even if she never again runs for an executive elective office.
You seem to misunderstand that her motivation is the not in a desperate bid for gaining personal power, but in helping the nation/population....are you intentionally trying to derail Palin? It sure seems like you are....
Your basic premise is wrong.
Sarah Palin is in no danger of fading from the National political scene....even Bronco Bama reacts to her tweets. She’s hardly the insignificant personage you seem to want her to be, while warning she will become if she doesn’t seek some minor/distracting political position.
Ha! Thanks for the info. I would love to see Sarah in the Senate. It would be awesome.
Think like the average American, and not like a FReeper. Her brand needs repackaging.
We must draft, nominate and elect Sarah Palin president in the most crushing tidal wave of enthusiastic good judgment ever seen in the history of this nation. With that one bold move we will accomplish the dual goals of seeing America led by the greatest natural born leader in our generation, even as we witness the final implosion and last agonized shrieks of our endlessly lying extreme left loonies. Their entire movement, from the fabricated attacks on Bush beginning with ‘Blood For Oil’ to the crammed-down-our-gullets lies of Obamacare and the Shovel Ready Stimulus, have been nothing but one vile deceit heaped upon another. Such an absolute inability to deal in the truth or to face the facts of our situation and its solutions only proves that there is simply no place at the grown-ups’ table for these diseased sputa. Good riddance to rubes and bad rubbish. Time to usher in the American Renaissance, carried in on the invigoratingly freshening breeze of President Sarah Palin.
Sorry but I think there are better ways to increase popular support than what you are suggesting,
Both Nixon and Ronnie Reagan didn’t fall into the types of sidelining positions you are promoting. And yes they are sidelining, meant only to marginalize her from being the relevant person she is (whether you love her, hate her or fall somewhere in between one thing everyone does, even “average Americans” is listen to her.)
Reagan was President of the Screen Actor’s Guild before he was Governor.
We can agree to disagree. I think she needs a job to help her image...President of a University ala Condi Rice perhaps. C’est la vie.
Exactly.
Though I wouldn’t blame her if she did run for this, I sort of hope she keeps open 2016.
Just saying.
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