[Bob J]

This wll exploe a few heads. Of course CNN will be accused of bias...until they show a poll with Palin in the lead then they will be hailed as the Oracle at Delphi.

Wishful thinkingt makes for poor political strategy.

[vaudine]

MSM trying to limit our choice of candidates to losers. Neither Mitt nor Newt can win. Mitt will get bagged by MASScare and his religion; Newt will get nowhere because of his wives. Newt talks the talk, but has never walked the walk. He has some serious flaws and much greater ones than those the MSM object to (and many Repubs) in Sarah--she didn't graduate from an Ivy league univ. and she talks down home. They also hate her popularity.

When was the last time Mitt or Newt filled up a stadium, hall, etc. like Sarah does. Also, note the huge issues they make with Sarah's family like they have never done wth Gore's children on drugs; Mitt's wife's expensive clothes; Newt's aversion to illness in his wives (he has dumped two that became sick), the Kennedy's nastiness even to their own (Ted's widow being pushed out of Ted's house) and on ad naseum.

Never fear, though, when crunch time comes, all Newt's and Mitt's warts will be put under a magnifying glass.

Just like the MSM and "racism", "rich greed", "global warming", "scaring old folks about SS and Medicare if they elect Repubs,--isn't it time people caught on and grow some mental toughness to resist this crap?

vaudine

[Bob J]

Internals... Data

[dforest]

I won’t believe any of this until we have actual declared candidates.

I don’t think Romney is a Tea party fav.

[mountainlion]

What is CNN? If it is liberal, who cares what their poll or opinion on right stuff is?

[deport]

44. Suppose the 2012 presidential election were being held today. If Barack Obama runs for reelection, are you more likely to vote for Obama, the Democrat, or for the Republican party’s candidate for President?

45. (IF UNSURE:) As of today, do you lean more to Obama, the Democrat, or to a Republican candidate?

QUESTIONS 44 AND 45 COMBINED

                                   Other     No
                   Obama Republican (vol.) opinion
Registered Voters
August 6-10, 2010  45%      50%       3%      1%
March 25-28, 2010  47%      48%       4%      1%
March 19-21, 2010  47%      47%       4%      2%
All Americans
August 6-10, 2010  46%      49%       3%      1%
March 25-28, 2010  48%      47%       4%      1%
March 19-21, 2010  48%      46%       4%      2%

[FrankR]

CNN...well, as Rosanna Rosanna Danna used to say, "Never mind..."

[bfree]

Well bob, we will NEVER get rid of Obamacare with Romney. Hell, he’s the architect of the plan with his disasterous Mascare plan.
Sorry Mitt, can’t vote for a liberal thinker.

[paulycy]

I support Sarah fully.

But if I were to answer a poll question accurately I wouldn’t necessarily say that I would vote for her for sure. It’s way too early for that.

Again, I support Sarah in whatever she wants to do. But we don’t have all the cards on the table yet to determine who to vote for for POTUS.

This poll is meaningless page filler.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Fox News said their polling shows fully 50% of Americans don’t want Palin as Potus. As for Newt and Romney, I don’t think they are going anywhere, except home ;-)

[Lorianne]

Huh?
Can they tell us which “the group” they polled?

[Pox]

LOL!

It really doesn't matter how you or the left will attempt to influence the selection of the Republican nominee in 2012, the Tea Parties and conservatives with their eyes wide open can still see through this drivel and in no way will the right enthusiastically support Romney or Gingrich, IMO.

Romney and Gingrich represent the problem with our government today. The Tea Parties do not seem to be inclined to continue the status quo, so if your delusional quest to see a marxist-lite-commie-RINO running for POTUS in 2012 actually is successful, you will be insuring that Obama is not out of office until Jan 2017, or that we will have a RINO POTUS that will be just as destructive, IMO.

Mrs. Palin may or may not be the answer as far as who would be the best candidate for the Republicans in 2012, but Romney and Gingrich are most definitely not. CNN and their marxist brethren in the liberal dominated media will be more than happy to shred Romney or Gingrich in the 2012 campaign, and either would have no chance to win. This is blatantly obvious, IMO.

[ottbmare]

I don’t care about the poll, but I think Sarah is doing her country great service right now. She’s a powerful mobilizing force. I don’t think she could do more as president. Let someone else do the dirty work and get politically soiled as president; Sarah can best serve America by continuing to speak, raise funds, and mobilize us.

[Nick Danger]

"They're ultimately looking for solutions beyond the rhetoric," says [supposedly Republican consultant Linda] Sanchez. "There is no doubt Palin engages the base, she amplifies their message. But in the long run, it's going to be who has the best solutions...

Here's an idea: let's stop looking to government for solutions! My guess is, most Tea Partiers have already taken that step. It's the "Republican consultants" (especially ones found in a CNN reporter's Rolodex) who need to forget all about "solutions to the nation's problems" and instead remember "slowing down, shutting up, and getting out of the way."

That said, I find it hard to believe that Mister Massachusetts Health Care Reform will long remain at the top of these polls. Right now he's the anti-Obama in the sense that he is a competent human being with actual leadership and management experience... people will indeed be looking for that in 2012. But he isn't going to be the only one out there with a resume. It's too early to say which other candidates might prove more acceptable in terms of "getting it" about Stop Growing the Damned Government! Quit trying to find "solutions" to our "problems." It's not the government's job to fix our problems! It's our job. What we need the government to do is get out of the way.

And as much as I enjoy Sarah Palin, I don't think the country will want to replace the guy who didn't finish his first term in the Senate with the woman who didn't finish her first term in the statehouse. The country's going to be looking for somebody who's been around the block a few times, and who's been out after dark. I'm sorry, but Sarah's not there yet.

[onyx]

This poll seems to be making the rounds, under different headlines, posing different questions to same 1094 respondents...lol. Yes? No? What's up, CNN?

CNN: 2012 poll shows Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin neck and neck

[stockpirate]

Myth Rodent is a socialist, Sarah Palin supports ultra-left wing socialist McCain.

As far as I am concerned they are both out of the running.

[Nip]

Remember this:

All the polls that are being conducted are nothing more than attempts to raise money either by political candidates or the media. There is only ONE poll that is truly meaningful, and it happens on the first Tuesday on even numbered years.

Look at the left’s response in the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections when President Bush won. The left was absolutely convinced, see the multiple recounts in Florida, that cheating had occurred because the electorate's votes didn't match any of their pre-election polls.

In 2010 the results aren't going to match any of the media's push poll results, potentially by a very large margin. So, rather than saying oops the left will immediately start yelling that massive cheating occurred in every election they lost. Kind of reminds me of my adult children when they were 3 to 5 years old.

The left never plays well if others.

[Left2Right]

It may actually be true, especially with her endorsement of McNuts and other RINOs. but I still see her as the conservative front-runner in 2012. Just like the negative numbers for W from 2006-2008, there were a lot of conservatives who were unhappy that he had made a giant left turn. Of course, that little fact never gets reported by any of the MSM.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Poll shows Palin not the clear Tea Party favorite

Well, it's obvious that the Tea Partiers are all a bunch of misogynistic RINOs!!!!!!

/typical Palemming

[lonevoice]

This wll exploe a few heads.

Well, I do see one that appears to have exploed.

Personally, I don't think Palin's going to run. If that turns out to be the case, it won't have a thing to do with the bazillion anti-Palin posts we're going to have seen about her on FR. What an enormous waste of time.

After seeing Howard Dean's de facto endorsement of Newt Gingrich on Chris Wallace's show, it looks pretty clear that the DNC/MSM is going to pull out all the stops to choose Newt as our candidate, just as they chose McInsane for us. Sucks, don't it?

[Kandy Atz]

Pick several random cities in the midwest, south and southwest. Schedule several rallies, each featuring one of the three: Sarah, Mitt or Newt. Average the attendance of each candidate’s events.

I would bet dollars to donuts that Sarah’s appearances would double the attendance of the other two IF NOT MORE. And I would not be surprised to see her average higher than Mitt and Newt combined.

Newt and Mitt have no grassroots appeal outside their respective insulated bubbles. Mitt is DOA, not even a consideration based on his support of socialized medicine and the disaster that is Massachusetts. Newt? He hasn’t been relevant since 1994 and his embrace of “climate change” has further tainted what little appeal he might have had.

The TEA party is largely the result of people sick and tired of big government and career DC politicians acting like royalty. And there are some here that think Newt and Mitt, both big gov insider types, have any appeal to TEA party Conservatives!?

No more business as usual for the GOP. You are either with us, or part of the problem. We will shrink the government, lower taxes and repeal EVERYTHING Obama has passed. No more democrat-lite candidates who think Obamacare just needs to be tweaked a little. No more RINOs that think compromise means always going along with the Democrats.

I have said before, whether its Sarah or someone else, I don’t care, but it will not be business as usual anymore. The stakes are too high. People are losing jobs, not just because of the Obama/Dem economy, but because of Presidential decree! Where is the national GOP on the oil moratorium and the car dealer shut down? If Obama can kill the oil industry, why not coal or nonunion manufacturing? And eventually whatever business you own or that employs you.

Sarah seems to be one of only a few that are fighting for the rank and file. And that will be remembered in 2012.