Posted on 01/26/2011 10:51:42 PM PST by speciallybland
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin remains a top favorite of Republican voters, but shes also the front-runner they least want to see get the GOPs 2012 presidential nomination.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 81% of Likely GOP Primary Voters have a favorable opinion of Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. Seventy-nine percent (79%) share a favorable opinion of Palin, the partys 2008 vice presidential nominee, and 77% express positive feelings about another 2008 contender, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
These findings include 44% with Very Favorable opinions of Palin and Huckabee and 38% who feel that way about Romney. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Still, one-in-three likely primary voters (33%) say Palin is the frontrunner they would least like to see nominated. Twenty-three percent (23%) feel that way about former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Fifteen percent (15%) say Romney is their least favorite of the leading candidates and 13% say the same of Huckabee.
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Man, you musta got up earlier than me.
I have no idea what you are saying.
So a third of Republicans are RINOs who will let the Democrat/Media Complex pick the GOP candidate? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
- JP
“You can count me as one of the 33%...Gov. Palin is simply unelectable.”
Is that you Neut?
Another main stream media and Democrat Partyparrot heard from. A/k/a/ another jackass brays.
HA...Palin is the mythical hydra....they try and cut her head off...two grow back...
WOOT!
The disaster that is Obamacare will be THE issue in the next election. Nominating Romney pretty much takes that off the table. That needs to be repeated over and over again.
I got a call last week from the Huckabee campaign. An actual person stated they calling on Huckabee’s behalf and that they were going to play a recorded message. I hung up when the recorded part started.
If they want to talk WITH me and let me interact fine. If they just want to talk AT me, forget it.
Palin/Ryan 2012
It's personal and it's not 2008.
Many independents are strongly conservative, I promise you that.
My wife cannot stand John mccain, he's like the old treasonous Colombian politicians who spoke of national defense and then allocated funding to rebuild infrstructure in commie rebel strongholds. Never to be trusted...
As a practical matter, not much later than August or September of this year. As a legal mater, it would vary state to state, and the feds have some pretty stringent guidelines about what kind of money you can raise before you announce, and limitations after you announce. For example, if she raises money for her PAC before she announces, she cannot by law use but a TINY fraction of that money (I think just $5K) in an actual campaign. And, once she officially declares, she may no longer appear on FNC as a paid consultant. So, there's a personal economic impact, as well.
NH is the first primary. Generally, you have a certain number of days before the primary that you have to file in each state, pay the registration fee (if there is one), and collect the number of requisite signatures to gain ballot access. That is (again generally) usually between 45-60 days before the day the primary is held. So, for NH, it's probably sometime in early December or mid-November. But, you could probably find in the state's website, if you were really curious.
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