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 she’s also the front-runner they least want to see get the GOP’s 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 party’s 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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Whatever.
When she is they will vote for her anyway.
Lets see where mitt and huckabee are AFTER they get the palin treatment...
Cuz Palin being at 79% after getting such treatment screams volumes...
Notice they dont ask “why”....
Well for me I would least like to see Romney or Huckabee nominated they always put those 2 hacks up and all I can say is UGH and besides I like Sara and if she was the nominee I would I vote for her? You betcha :)
Seventy-nine percent (79%) share a favorable opinion of Palin
Yeah because they voted for Obama and we know how conservative he is—what a joke a non vote for Mccain was a vote for Obama
The majority of voters are dumb as post, even on the
Republican side.
They go with what is spoon fed to them from the Marxist media.
That being, Sarah Bad, the others OK, but none as good as the Messiah.
Most would not know Rumny, Huckabuk, or Grinch if they shook their hand.
Yep, once she announces some of that will flip immediately and once the campaigns begins more will come out.... I can imagine being ask who do want to see win the nomination and many being embarass to say Palin because of so called controversy and considering this question was asked recently of her being implicated by some for murder in the Tucson attacks
No we didn’t.
I voted for Sarah’s dad, otherwise I would have sat on my hands.
79 and 33 don’t make 100. So, if 33% hope she isn’t the nominee, then that means that 67% do - not bad.
Maybe I’m not reading this crap right, but, that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
I do not intend to support any of the usual GOP failed, has-been suspects.
Not at all.
The driveby media did say something bad about Mother Teresa. I recall twice seeing reports on BBC that Mother Teresa kept people poor as a business and in one of those reports the “news reporter” openly questioned “Who believes in God in this day and age?”. And that was the coverage of when she passed away.
If Mitt say anything Romney gets the nod then he better seek democrat votes. There are 7 voters in this family who will “Never” vote rino again. I’d rather be be-headed by radicals then slow boiled by milk toast progressives of the Romney/Huck/Mcain type.
McCain didn’t have the base because he was a moderate, Sarah doesn’t have that problem, in fact a lot of the base who did voted in 2008 voted for her not McCain.......I voted for her not McCain in any way
Mitt, Newt, somewhat of Pawlenty, and others RINOs will have problems getting out the base in droves for them, If Sarah has the nomination she not have that problem, people will be actually voting for somebody instead if just against somebody.
That is probably the least true of Palin. She has 95% name recognition; the highest of any of the potential 2012 GOP candidates. It gives her the least room to grow. It's not like some politician (example: Huckabee in 2008) hovering around the 20's in name ID and polling 4% nationally and where a long campaign can give people a positive view. Everyone knows Palin and they either like her or dislike her and months of campaigning ain't going to change a significant amount one way or another.
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