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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

Posted on 01/30/2011 10:33:33 AM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; elections; elections2012; freepressforpalin; palin; presidentialelection; sarah; sarahpalin; smellthefear; thirdparty; waronsarah
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
No Palin, no vote. Period. And I'm not alone. Screw the GOP!

It'd be interesting to see what would happen if we ended up with a DeMint/Cain ticket, or something like that.

Are you really going to help re-elected 0bama, just because your particular political messiah didn't get the nomination?

41 posted on 01/30/2011 11:08:03 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will believe in abject nonsense.)
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To: parksstp
RR: 46% of GOP Primary Voters Who Favor Palin Might Back Third-Party Option If She Isn’t Nominated

I'll vote for Obama before another mccain-RINO.

42 posted on 01/30/2011 11:11:17 AM PST by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: ReneeLynn
Why are you being a tool for a skewed poll?

I'm not. I'm responding to a foolish sentiment that has been repeatedly expressed by some people here on FR.

Why are you trying to be purposefully insulting? Are you just the sort of person who likes to try to stir up strife and division?

43 posted on 01/30/2011 11:11:25 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will believe in abject nonsense.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

and where have these “fine” conservatives been for the last 2 years as Obmaa and the socialists have had a free hand in making policy and destroying our country. Only gov Palin has been on the attack defending conservative vaules everyday. She stands up and takes the stones thrown at her by the MSM and the DNC everyday for the last 2 years. these fine conservatives you talk about have been in hdiing since Obama won. gutless wonders no thank you. If West had some more experience I would include him.

I want a fighter not a coward. So far the only fighter on the field is gov Palin.


44 posted on 01/30/2011 11:11:37 AM PST by unseen1
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

“I’m damned sure NOT going to vote for another John McCain!
This is engraved in stone, they can take it to the bank!

It doesn’t absolutely need to be Sarah but if the nominee isn’t reasonably conservative no way will I vote for them.”

I second that... my not reasonable conservative lists for starters are
Daniels
Romney
huckleberry
Pawlenty ( only looks conservative cause he is from a communist state)
Anybody from New York or the whole northeast for that matter
anybody named Bush
Anybody the Rove likes

feel free to add


45 posted on 01/30/2011 11:11:43 AM PST by Breto (never accept the premise)
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To: OldDeckHand
How is the Republican party supposed to "show support for her" in your estimation?

How about speaking out in her defense when the MSM decided to butcher her and blame her for the murders in Tucson? They can do that without endorsing her. The silence from Republican "leaders" was deafening. They only decided to speak out after she defended herself, and then their comments all centered around the idea that she should shut up. How "manly" of them.

46 posted on 01/30/2011 11:11:52 AM PST by Jess79
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To: parksstp

My family will go for a third party Conservative candidate (hopefully Sarah!) before voting for a Republican establishment pick like Romney, McCain, Gingrich, or a host of others. We would rather see another term of Obama hamstrung by a conservative congress and senate than another globalist, anti-constitution president like any of the Bushes.


47 posted on 01/30/2011 11:12:01 AM PST by Big_Harry ( Starve the Beast!)
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To: centurion316

Yes, Ross Perot is a product of the GOP Establishment abandoning Reagans model that brought 3 landslide elections


48 posted on 01/30/2011 11:12:10 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Maybe the GOP will be the 3rd party?


49 posted on 01/30/2011 11:12:28 AM PST by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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50 posted on 01/30/2011 11:13:12 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I think there are a lot more than you think and more join us everyday as the left exposes themselves. If Sarah Palin is treated fairly she will win in a landslide. It is not likely that she will be treated fairly and her victory will be hard won, but she will prevail. She better. She is us.


51 posted on 01/30/2011 11:13:55 AM PST by Josephat
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To: pnh102

I’ve held my nose while voting, but I won’t ever do that again. While I’m a strong Palin supporter, I’ll vote GOP if a Reagan conservative is nominated. Otherwise, I’ll see what the third parties have to offer. If I don’t find any of their candidates acceptable, I’ll write in Sarah Palin’s name.

- JP


52 posted on 01/30/2011 11:14:18 AM PST by Josh Painter ("There were a lot of WTF moments throughout that speech." - Sarah Palin)
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To: Breto

Anybody named after a type of lizard.


53 posted on 01/30/2011 11:14:23 AM PST by imfrmdixie (A MOUNTAIN CAN BE MOVED....ONE SMALL STONE AT A TIME.)
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To: centurion316

Hey, I’m in NC.

Some say NC went for Obama in the last election. WRONG. Obama won NC by less than 25,000 votes. Just over 25,0000 NC voters voted for Barr. So the Barr voters gave NC to Obama.


54 posted on 01/30/2011 11:14:36 AM PST by PeteB570 (Islam is the sea in which the terrorist shark swims. It aids & comforts the shark on it's journey.)
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To: imfrmdixie
"When her name is brought up to any of the so called “ins” of the GOP....

The "ins"? Please, let me know where I can find these "ins"? On what page of the Party's incorporation documents might they be found?

You do understand that the Republican Party is a corporation, right. It's not some nebulous collection of "ins", who meet in shady back-rooms to hand pick the party's next nominee. Both major parties stopped operating that way at the turn of the last century. Now, they're very public corporations, with public officers, public and wholly transparent financials, and public platforms. The Parties don't endorse national primary candidates, and haven't for over 100-years.

Your mysterious (and entertaining) "ins" have no bearing on the operation of the Republican Party. If you can find a name of an actual party officer who has publicly disparaged Palin, or any other candidate, then by all means, let's hear it.

55 posted on 01/30/2011 11:14:37 AM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: turfmann

“It’s rapidly approaching the time when if you don’t stand up for your principles, all will be lost.
If someone else throws his/her hat in the ring that shows the same depth of character and commitment to principle then, yeah, I’ll happily vote for them.
Until then, I am behind Sarah.”

Well stated. I’m also behind Sarah...but if DeMint throws his hat into the ring, I’m with him. He’s been AWESOME lately.


56 posted on 01/30/2011 11:14:56 AM PST by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: OldDeckHand
I have read a number of academic studies by political scientists over the years, and all the ones that I can remember reached that very conclusion - absent Perot, it's likely Bush gets reelected, although it would have been very close.

Sweet, it's nice to see my analysis backed up by people who (presumably) actually know what they're talking about!

'96 is a slightly different case. Clinton probably prevails, but it would have been a much closer election, and certainly not the electoral blow-out it was.

Yes, that's pretty much the conclusion I reached, too. Of course, if Bush I had won in 1992, there would probably not have been a Clinton rerun in 1996, but you never know.

57 posted on 01/30/2011 11:15:38 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will believe in abject nonsense.)
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To: parksstp

IMO, the acceptable candidates at this point are Palin, DeMint, Pence(says he’s not running) and Bachmann.
Unacceptable: Romney, Huckabee
Bland brand x might be acceptable as a last resort: Pawlenty


58 posted on 01/30/2011 11:16:52 AM PST by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: org.whodat
Yoy call a poll BS buy quoting some poll numbers. ROFL
59 posted on 01/30/2011 11:18:09 AM PST by McGruff (If you are catching alot of flak, you must be over the target!)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
That's why they take this "Palin or nobody" mentality. they won't even consider other conservative alternatives - even ones who are MORE conservative than her, and who have done MORE to actually promote conservatism on a practical, functional level than she has.

That mentality scares me. Palin appeals to me because she promotes conservative values. We should embrace any genuinely conservative candidate.

For me though, there definitely is a lower bound in a candidate that, if crossed, will make such a candidate unvotable for me.

60 posted on 01/30/2011 11:18:12 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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