“At this point conservatives are looking very good for the primary. Palin is the frontrunner in both approval and in ranking, this sure beats having the conservative be some fantasy 5% guy. “
We have to break out a map because you need to pick up states to win the GOP primary. I can see Romney picking up all the big blue/purple states such as CA, NY, etc for ‘free’ because candidates like Palin, Huckabee and Barbour won’t have any appeal there but they will split up the vote and spend a lot of money to win the other red states. Romney will have all his money intact to focus on the other battleground states. It’s not going to be so easy.
Right now it is far too early to be looking at maps and trying to decide the race, the good news is that the conservative has consistently been 1, 2, or 3 in the frontrunner status, and is currently number one, we conservatives are in a very good place for 2012.