Rasmussen: Huckabee 29, Romney 24, Palin 18

Hotair ^ | 10/17/2009 | Allahpundit

[SeekAndFind]

In July it was Romney 25, Palin 24, Huck 22.

Then again, Rudy Giuliani once pulled something like 45 percent before last year’s primaries. Perspective.

These numbers reflect an improvement for Huckabee since July when the three candidates were virtually even. Huckabee’s gain appears to be Palin’s loss as Romney’s support has barely changed.

The numbers for Huckabee and Romney look even stronger when GOP voters were asked which candidate they would least like to see get the nomination. Pawlenty came on top in that category with 28%. Palin was second at 21% while 20% named Gingrich. Romney and Huckabee were in the single digits with 9% and 8% respectively…

Romney leads all prospects among voters who attend church once a month or less. Huckabee leads among more frequent churchgoers. Huckabee holds a huge lead among Evangelical Christians with Palin in second and Romney a distant third.

The person Republicans would least like to see win the nomination is … Tim Pawlenty? I thought the rap on T-Paw, at least for the moment, is that he didn’t inspire strong feelings one way or another. As for Sarahcuda, on the same day that he took the July poll, Rasmussen ran another one asking if her decision to resign would help or hurt her presidential ambitions. The split was 24/40 — and yet she was still ahead of Huckabee at the time. If it’s not her resignation that’s hurting her now, as I speculated this morning, what is? Too much Levi Johnston freak show collateral damage, maybe? I don’t think most people even know who he is.

Not to worry, says Matt Latimer. Authenticity shall triumph in the end:

Palin isn’t going away (at least not yet) because in her own way she represents what Barack Obama represented for many Democrats: someone who stands apart from the corrupt and cynical Washington system that has let true believers down. Republicans remember that Palin stood up against the crooked Republican establishment in Alaska—while out-of touch GOP senators in Washington actually applauded Alaska’s crony-in-chief, Ted “Bridge to Nowhere” Stevens, after he was booted out of office amid scandal. (The charges against Stevens were eventually dropped.)

The rank-and-file are tired of the bland phonies running the GOP. They are tired of Republican compromises that bloated spending and expanded the federal government. And they feel helpless against a team of buddies running each campaign more cynically than the last. GOP voters just might be ready to burn their village down in order to save it. You can almost hear the line now. What’s the difference between a hockey mom and Robespierre? Lipstick.

If the grand pooh-bahs of the GOP think they can find someone to push her aside, their pickings seem drearily slim. Version 2.0 of the governor affectionately known in some circles as “Mitt Rom-bot” is currently under construction. It will probably function just as lamely as the last. Poor Governor Romney. Every move the Mittster makes looks like it has first been diagrammed in a PowerPoint presentation. When commentators noted that even his hair looked too perfect, his aides mussed it up. It ended up looking perfectly disheveled. We’ve had enough inauthenticity for a while.

We’ve had enough ideological inauthenticity, but using the degree of dishevelment of Mitt Romney’s hair to measure that isn’t really a game I want to play. Palin and Huckabee might be the most personally authentic, salt-of-the-earth candidates of the bunch, but does that necessarily mean they’re less likely to get rolled by Democrats if elected? Because that’s all I care about. If Mitt can get jobs growing again between trips to the country club, good enough. Personal authenticity can be useful as a proxy for ideological authenticity, but ultimately it’s only the latter that’s important. Sometimes it feels like that’s a minority position these days.

[duckman]

Please no Huckster no way.

[Bringbackthedraft]

LOL, same ole same ole style candidates. THEY WILL LOSE!!!!!

[Diogenesis]

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, poor loser “I am Myth” Romney and
TeamROMNEY decided …… to attack Gov. Palin (and her defenseless children) to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

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David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

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David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician… I will support him without qualm."

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[swatbuznik]

Why Huckabee? Why the appeal? I don’t get it!

[MNJohnnie]

A year before the 2008 elections the polls all showed it was Clinton vrs Guliani in a slug fest. McCain was dead last and no one even knew who Barack Hussein Obama was.

What happened in the primaries?

Polling this question 3 years in advance is pure idiotic spin.

[DanZanRyu]

America needs a President who is a strong Christian leader. Huckabee is the man. He can use the power of the Presidency to preserve America’s Christian values that the Founders envisioned.

[hsmomx3]

Huckabee seems like a nice guy but I would not vote for him. The R’s need to come up with some new blood.

Here’s what I get from people:

They are more willing to vote democrat because of the housing and unemployment situation and more for the people.

Republicans are more pro-business.....

That is what I hear and it makes for interesting discussions with people.

[MNJohnnie]

Polling 3 years out is nothing but Name Recognition. Most people recognize Huck’s name because he is all over Fox news. That all it means. Name Recognition

[SeekAndFind]

Why Huckabee? Why the appeal? I don’t get it!

It's called TEEVEE. Why do you think he started his own show on FOX ? He wants to come out as an "aww shucks", Jimmy Stewart sort of -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- fella, and a lot of people are buying it.

Sure, he's a cultural/social conservative, he's also likable and that's why people can relate to him.

Unfortunately, other than his support for the simplification of taxes, he's not really a conservative fiscally.

[Huck]

You think Huckabee has more name recognition than Palin?

[MNJohnnie]

Wrong. The Founder specifically wrote into the Constitution a prohibition of a religious test for office seekers.

Please tell me where in the US Constitution you find any support for Huckabee proposed nation wide smoking ban?

[Diogenesis]

"Romney in Seven Words"
"On Wednesday, after his loss in the New Hampshire primary, Gov. Mitt Romney returned to Boston
to lick his wounds and conduct a telephone fundraiser before heading off to his next must win state of Michigan.
ABC Radio microphones were there and they featured an audio quote from Romney in their top of the hour news broadcasts.
Romney was encouraging his phone bank volunteers with a little pep talk when he unintentionally summed up his entire campaign;
ironically hitting upon the reason why he has failed to gain any traction with conservatives despite spending the most money of any Republican.
ABC News Radio was contacted by telephone and confirmed the following quote from their report.
" Hit the phones today make all the promises you have to, and…
make sure that we get the funds that we need to keep on propelling this campaign forward with power and energy.
“Make all the promises you have to.”
That’s Romney in a nutshell.
Of all the Republicans running, he alone has sought to clarify, cover,
and indeed change past positions in an attempt to curry favor with conservatives.
In the process, Romney has developed a reputation not as a principled conservative,
but as a politician who will say almost anything and take almost any position to win votes. "

[grey_whiskers]

Enough of the polls of adults in San Francisco...

How about something more representative of America as a whole, such as MSNBC? /sarc>

Cheers!

[Outlaw Woman]

These articles are completely meaningless. 2012 is far away and we haven't even gotten through mid-term.....that is IF, and that is a huge if btw, we even make it to 2010. These articles are simply an effort to distract.....Hell we're only in the 2nd inning right now.

[Huck]

other than his support for the simplification of taxes

I thought he supported the nationial sales tax boondoggle, which doesn't seem like a simplified or desirable plan at all.

[Bringbackthedraft]

I just posted this on another post:

“Is it fall 2011 already? Oh, its not? I’ll wait and see what happens when it is. This old guy will support her (Palin), I see the pioneer spirit in her, she is what America “was” all about. She didn’t quit, she is just attacking in another direction, in the words of the Marines at Chosin.

I sense this woman is studying her battle plans, getting ready for the main attack. I would expect that of her, she isn’t as stupid as the MSM want you to believe.”

Huckabee, Romney, the NYT dream team!!

[MNJohnnie]

Yes, at this time because Palin has been pretty much off the political scene while Huck is working the political circuit, talk radio and fox news. let see how this changes after Palin’s book comes out

[fortunate sun]

Identity politics PERIOD!

[NaughtiusMaximus]

We’re going to lose the 2012’s due to RINOs.

Goodbye America, it’s been great.

Hello Amerika, I plan to run off the reservation at first and every opportunity.