Posted on 08/18/2009 12:30:26 PM PDT by steve-b
Even as the president’s approval rating slips, Republicans looking to beat him in 2012 — one of their frontrunners, one-time governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, might be unelectable. A new Marist Poll gives President Obama a 56-33 lead over Palin among registered voters, with the president taking 20 percent of Republican voters and easily winning independents. But Palin’s favorable rating with registered Republicans is still a very strong 73-16.
In the South, Obama’s lead is a slimmer 49-38, and post-”Beerfest” Obama only leads by 10 points among white voters. But everywhere else, and among every other demographic group, he dominates Palin.
Marist asked about Palin’s resignation — she’s been a former governor for a month now — in a meta way, taking stock of whether voters thought “will help or hurt her running for president in 2012.” Sixty-one percent of all voters, and 50 percent of Republicans, say it will hurt her.
Gee, isn’t this poll a little... fishy?
Well guess we’ve lost the election. No point in voting now.
Obama’s kind of election.
If you believe this, I want you to know I have a special BOGO on bridges this week only!
Sarah will make her move when she is ready. The polls will not dictate.
More bogus polling that means zilch at this juncture.
published by either push polling liberals or Mitten Kittens.....
Not to give you and your allies a boner or anything, but maybe we can wheel out the formidable Bob Dole to run again.
Ummmmmmmmmm.......Is Sarah running against Obama now?
LOL
Yeah, kinda odd that they are having a poll about a PRIVATE CITIZEN. The way Obama is looking now, Bart Simpson can beat him by a landslide in 2012
Wonder why the obamedia ran this poll??
Pray for America
Warning: Steve-b postings are hazardous to your IQ.
They must have polled the visitors in the NBC gift shop - the one with all the obozo merchandise.
is she running NOW? Another idiotic “poll”. What did Marist poll use as methodology...shooting darts at a dartboard and whatever number comes up that’s Obeyme’s lead? Gimme a break..
Yawn. More feces from our resident Palin-hater.
while i would never vote for Obama, and would happily vote for Sarah, i too think her resignation hurt her chances... more than that, her running as JMc’s VP hurt her chances... i thought it was too soon for her to make her national debut... i wish she would have waited until the next cycle...
Why, show me a poll that does not have that 20 to 21% no support number.
Politics is like beer.
If one candidate is Budwiser, another is Alaskan Amber, and another is Guinnes, which would get the most votes as “best”?
Is there any doubt it would be the Bud?
But Bud is bland - and that is the point. A strong flavor is excellent to some but if you don’t like it, you REALLY do not like it. So bland wins. Same with Domino’s pizza.
As long as this government exists in it’s current form, our leaders will be examples of Bud lite, untl the huns storm the gates and we are forced to hit the reset button.
And bud lite leaders tend to be rather incompetent, which only hastens the day.
Geeze, you post as much downgrading drivel about Sarah as GGG does about Creationism.
Who thought this insanity up?
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