RR: 46% of GOP Primary Voters Who Favor Palin Might Back Third-Party Option If She Isn’t Nominated

Rasmussen Reports ^ | January 30, 2011 | Rasmussen Reports

[parksstp]

Nearly half of the Republican Primary voters who support Sarah Palin say they are at least somewhat likely to vote for a third-party candidate if she does not win the GOP presidential nomination.

[RichInOC]

If she doesn’t run, I’ll explore my options. If she runs and doesn’t win, I’ll explore my options. I almost certainly won’t go third-party, unless the nominee is a real closet case (as in, you want to hide him/her in the closet, a la Flounder’s brother in “Animal House”, although who knows, they might be the other kind, too).

That said, if she runs, and runs well, unless somebody else does better (more likely from some of the newbs than any of the 2008 holdovers)...she’s your Republican nominee.

[carmody]

I can’t wait to see who the Republican party has already picked for us. I’m sure it will be super awesome! If only Bob Dole were younger.

[Democrat_media]

The liberal mainstream media is counting on a 3rd conservative Party.

If a 3rd party would get only 2% of the vote then that would guarantee an Obama victory.It’s going to be a close race.

Lets say in a 2 party race it’s Palin vs Obama
and lets say Palin wins by 50 to 49%.

then in a 3 party race then it would be Palin 48%, 3rd party mr. conservative 2% ,democrat Obama 49% and then the win for Obama.

I know this is simplified and not electoral. Just making a simple example to illustrate a point.

[unseen1]

hey vote for the socialist of your choice no one is stopping you. right now your options are Mitt, Daniels thune TPaw or Newt. Or cast your vote for someone that can't win like Demint. and when you do know you are voting for Obama

[OldDeckHand]

"Talk to nader about how easy it is to get on the ballot, if one or both party machines don't want you on it. "

When was the last time Ralph Nadar tried to get on a major party primary ballot, the 1960s? We're talking about PRIMARY ballot access. The parties DO NOT CONTROL PRIMARY BALLOT ACCESS.

Please, do you think the Democrat Party WANTED ALVIN GREENE on the primary ballot? Of course they didn't. But, he had the requisite number of signatures, and he had his $10K. The party had NOTHING to do with it.

And I'm the "naive" one. Please.

[org.whodat]

LOL, that is true!

[Sola Veritas]

“So far I haven’t seen one iota of support from the Republican Party for her. The only support I see is from people like me who believe in her. If the GOP begins to acknowledge her as a viable candidate and are willing to back her then I will be satisfied.”

FRiend YOU are the GOP. So, if you support her, she has GOP support. If by “GOP” you mean party officials....they don’t control voters like you. Vote for your candidate (AKA Palin), if they lose, then look at who won and determine if you can accept them as a viable alternative to Obama. If the answer is yes, then vote for them.

[unseen1]

You use alvin greene? Please. all that media coverage to destroy his campaign was so above board....

and you must have missed all the effort to get rubio to not run and off the ballot to pave the way for Crist. Where you even awake during the 2010 primaries?

[carmody]

I don’t believe Sarah Palin would ever run as a 3rd party candidate unless the Republicans steal the nomination from Americans who want real reform and a constitutional government. She supported McCain in his re-election to the senate. That is not someone who is going to take her ball and go to a 3rd party.

That said, if she goes 3rd party rogue ... I’m going with her. And I don’t care if that means 4 more years of Obama. If she goes 3rd party that would mean the Republicans have nominated someone who is just like Obama and so it won’t make a difference which man is elected.

I want an All American, freedom loving, capitalist, patirot as our next president. Not a globalist. Not a one-worlder. Not a progressive. Not a lite-socialist. And don’t imagine that the Republican Party establishment has any intention of handing the nomination over to anyone the tea party would support.

[unseen1]

I guess you missed that whole John anderson run that helped elect Reagan to the Whitehouse in 1980. The reason Perot cost Bush is because the RINO was on the GOP ticket. If the RINO was running as the 3rd party the conservative on the GOP ticket wins in a walk. So we make the GOP RINO run as a third party is the way to solve this.

[itsahoot]

That is EXACTLY what David Axelrod et. al wants to hear. Exactly.

Well vet used to it, because we have sold our souls for the last time.

“Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you;
Jesus Christ and the American G. I.
One died for your soul; the other for your freedom.”

[Democrat_media]

No Obama wins if any 3rd party gets about 1% or 2% .It is impossible to get the Republican Party or a “tea party” to less than 1% so that it wouldn't affect the election.

And also Congress would be similarly affected. This is the media's goal divide and conquer to achieve full socialism.

[fluffdaddy]

Winning with another candidate who can't see where we are or where we need to go would be worse than useless. I'm not interested in worshiping anyone born in the last couple of millennia. I suspect very few Palin partisans are. What you fail utterly to understand is that the game here isn't winning elections. It's reclaiming our country. Winning elections is a means to that end. We are better off without any victory which doesn't serve that end.

Eisenhower won twice and left office with an economy in shambles and confiscatory marginal tax rates. Nixon won twice. He instituted wage and price controls, began affirmative action and invented detente. GWB won twice. He accelerated our progress toward fiscal Armageddon and set the stage for the lunacy of Obama.

Fuggedabout partisan victories. They count for nothing. We need a conservative party that can win philosophical victories. Remaking the Republican Party to fit that bill is job one. I'm open to any candidate who understands this and can get the job done. So far, there's only one realistic prospect. Candidates who have nothing to offer but the prospect of a merely partisan victory need not apply.

[unseen1]

That depends. IMO a person like Palin draws more Reagan dems from Obama then loses liberal GOp to a 3rd party. Now if she is the 3rd party candidate I agree with you. but if the RINO is the 3rd party candidate it's a whole different ballgame.

[unseen1]

well said

[centurion316]

We have always had two major political parties. That doesn’t mean that they have been the same since the formation of parties, but only two at a time has been the rule. When the Republican Party was formed, the Whigs disappeared practically overnight. The third party in the Election of 1860 was the Constitutional Union Party, they didn’t go very far, did they? I’d love to see the Republican Party go away, but I’m not willing to hand a victory over to the Democrats as the price of the bargain.

[itsahoot]

Please, somebody let me know where I can find this list of establishment Republicans.

Well when we find it, your real name will probably be prominently displayed.

I live in the real world, you know the one where only real people get to make decisions at cocktail parties, oh wait that is your world, not mine.

“Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you;
Jesus Christ and the American G. I.
One died for your soul; the other for your freedom.”

[meadsjn]

Conservatives are about the only people left on the planet who do not see Barry as the second coming. It’s too bad because there aren’t many of us.

Not true. The shifts between the 2006 elections and 2010 elections should be an eye-opener. PEW Research polled the below shifts in voter preference for Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. Omitting the bizarre and fraud-ridden results of 2008 provides a much more accurate picture of the shift of the overall electorate toward the conservative side. Economic realities will push more of us to the right, NOT toward the RINOs, but really toward the real right -- commonsense Constitutional conservatism.

Party Affiliation	Vote Rep %	Vote Dem %	Advantage 2006	Vote Rep %	Vote Dem %	Advantage 2010	Shift to (R)
Republican	92	04	R+88	95	01	R+94	R+6
Democrat	02	94	D+92	08	88	D+80	R+12
Independent	35	42	D+7	49	30	R+19	R+26

[Caipirabob]

Thanks, I’d vote for Sarah in a second. I just can’t do another mccain/romney scenario...

[unseen1]

There was 4 parties in the 1860 election. The 1860 election with Lincoln running an winning cemented the gOP as the second politcal party. if Lincoln would have lost the GOP would not be around today. Sometimes in history new parties are “fact” was incorrect.

the whigs did not disappear overnight. They fractured into the the consitutional union party and the gop. The dems fractured into the northern dem and sountern dems. Each party ran its candidate. the GOp formed from the ashes of the whigs.

The similarities to today are profound. the Tea party is what the GOP was in 1856 or the Whig holdouts whihc remains to be seen but a fracture has occurred it will not end until one or the other is defeated.