Posted on 10/19/2009 7:48:35 AM PDT by DanZanRyu
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s forthcoming autobiography has been at the top of the Amazon book charts for weeks, and it hasn’t even been released yet. At least in the eyes of the political Left, she is now perhaps America’s most visible national Republican.
But new Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveying finds Palin losing handily in face-to-face march-ups with her two likeliest challengers for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Among likely Republican primary voters, Palin now trails former Arkansas governor-turned-Fox-TV-host Mike Huckabee by 20 points – 55% to 35%.
When her opponent is ex-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Palin loses by 15 – 52% to 37%.
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When given a list of five candidates and asked who they would vote for in 2012, 29% of Republican voters nationwide say Huckabee, while 24% prefer Romney and 18% Palin.
In July, it was close to a three-way tie: 25% said Romney, 24% Palin and 22% Huckabee.
It’s noteworthy that Huckabee’s gains since July are matched almost precisely by Palin’s decline. That suggests a large pool of voters are committed to choosing between two candidates routinely dismissed as unacceptable in the eyes of Republicans in Washington, DC. At the moment, 47% prefer either Huckabee or Palin while 42% prefer a candidate more acceptable to Republican political leaders. That divide is also reflected, with similar results, in a Huckabee-Romney head to head match-up.
Twenty-one percent (21%) of primary voters also say Palin is the GOP candidate they would least like to see win the party’s presidential nomination. Just nine percent (9%) say the same of Romney, and eight percent (8%) feel that way about Huckabee.
Support for Huckabee and Romney against Palin is nearly the same among both men and women. Suggesting that Romney’s Mormon faith may still be a problem among some Christian conservatives, Palin leads him by 14 points – 52% to 38% - among GOP primary voters who describe themselves as Evangelical Christians. But Romney beats Palin by 26 points among other Protestants – 58% to 32% - and holds similar winning margins among Catholic voters and those of other faiths.
On the other hand, Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, beats Palin by 17 points among Evangelical Christians and 29 points among other Protestants. A similar spread is evident among Republican voters of other faiths, but Huckabee has just an eight-point edge over Palin among Catholic voters.
Earlier polling showed that Palin trails Hillary Clinton in a general election match-up.
In early July, 40% of Republican voters nationwide said Palin’s decision to resign as governor of Alaska hurt her chances of winning the party’s presidential nomination in 2012.
Romney is disgusting.
Huck... Romney ... Anyone wanna go FISHING with me?
reckon I’ll have to bite the bullet and pull the lever for the Romulan then...cannot tolerate the squirrel fryer.
What crap. What is suggest is Evangelical Christians vote for someone who shares their values.
Romney is a fake conservative & fake Christian.
Palin is a failed conservative & failed Christian.
Huckabee is an accomplished conservative & stellar Christian.
What an effort to derail The Palin Express!!!
Rasmussen is disgusting.
Only if it’s fishing...with political dynamite.
Prove Palin is all that you say???
If this is how it shakes out, we’re doomed.
Romney and Huck are what is wrong with the party.
I hope the following run for the Repub nomination in 2012:
Mike Pence
Eric Cantor
Paul Ryan
John Thune
Mike Huckabee
Mitt Romney
Mitch Daniels
John Hoeven (my favorite dark horse)
Haley Barbour
Tim Pawlenty
Bobb Jindal (#1 on all the above’s VP list)
Remember how Rudy’s large lead disappeared at the primary season began. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
“40% of Republican” voters nationwide said Palin’s decision to resign as governor of Alaska hurt her chances of winning the party’s presidential nomination in 2012. ...................................Had to be RINOs!! Most if not all my Republican friends love her. I don’t buy into this at all. Huckleberry or Romney = no change, just the same ole same ole BS in DC.
If those polls are true then the republicans have been brain washed by the democrats.. pity..
Romney is NOT a Republican.
I don’t believe Palin will run as a Republican
...cannot tolerate the squirrel fryer.
Hell no , you ever tried to eat fried squirrel?
Now stewed, that’s another story.
Quite frankly, every time I see that picture of
the Huck family , I’m reminded of the people that
lived underground in the movie, “A boy and his dog.”.
“Among likely Republican primary voters, Palin now trails former Arkansas governor-turned-Fox-TV-host Mike Huckabee by 20 points – 55% to 35%.”
Huckafraud will NOT be the nominee. If he is, I WILL vote for him but he won’t be. Okay? Please God? Not him?
None of the above. I think one of the governors would be a better choice: Daniels, Jindhal or Barbour.
I like what you say..
Since you hold Palin responsible for her daughter's pregnancy, I'm sure you also hold Huckabee responsible for his son torturing and hanging a dog at summer camp. Is that what you consider stellar Christianity?
And you are a troll pumping up an unelectable joke of a candidate.
“What crap. What is suggest is Evangelical Christians vote for someone who shares their values.”
Are you suggesting that we do not?
If she’s not running as a repub, this poll is useless.
“Palin is a failed conservative & failed Christian.”
How so?
We need something much better.
Huckabee? The man that has never meet an illegal alien he doesn’t want to give our tax dollars to?
Is Bobby NBC?
Pushing Huckster again - the pro-life socialist/liberal.
Hmmmm ~ another NFL fan heard of ~ keeping up on those dog killers eh?
I have no idea what your post is trying to say.
It has to be Palin or someone new we haven't seen yet to beat the zero.
To historically follow the GOP’s choice for candidate... the next GOP candidate will be either... Lilly Grahamnesty or Olympia Snow!
If the Republicans insist on running these old, white men again, they are doomed. We need new fresh blood. The electorate said that we didn’t want them last time. All they are is a little bit older, but not much wiser.
Palin is a fresh new face.
Huckabee is a dirty, filthy politician whose underhanded tactics in the 2008 West Virginia caucus erased all hope of Romney winning and gave us the hapless John McCain. Not that I was a fan of Romney (I'm still not), but he would have given us a fighting chance. The great Christian Huckabee played dirty and screwed us all.
So the GOP establishment wants to give us a choice between Juan McCain Jr. (Huckabee) and George Bush without the enthusiasm for illegal aliens (Romney)? I’ll stick with Sarah Palin, thank you.
And how the HECK is she a FAILED Christian????
Ouch!
Well, Romney or Huckabee, would be basically the Republicans doing their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in 2012.
I’d love to say Fauxbama will be so umpopular R’s could run a doughnut hole and win, but these guys are both disasters, R party really needs something better than them.
Romney gave us FauxbamaCare part I and Gay marriage, then tries to play like he’s Reagan’s heir, its insulting and rediculous. And don’t even get me started on Huck.
America needs better than these two.
The Huckster was espousing just the other day on his tv show about Obama’s poll ratings and how they didn’t mean a thing when it comes to the actual election. He cited the fact that the election wasn’t today and when it would be held there would be tons of money used to sway and shore up the voters.
That same analogy use by the Huckster can be used in this worthless poll citing the Huckster/Rommey as the winners today. The election isn’t today and the money hasn’t been used to sway/shore up the vote.
Palin quit her 1st term as Governor. Huckabee served 10 years as Governor.
Palin’s daughter sinned. Also Palin failed to win Levi’s soul for Christ. OTOH, Huckabee, as pastor, saved several souls for Christ.
Huckabee is fit to be the Christian President of America.
Who was the dem frontrunner in 2005? Where was Obama in 2005? Where was Hillary?
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