[Polybius]

First of all, Ross Perot was a THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE! Sarah Palin has said that she wouldn't run as some fringe party candidate.

I hate to break the news to you but, nowadays, the Republicans ARE the "Third Party".

Independents slightly outnumber Democrats and both the Democrats and the Independents outnumber Republicans. Even if Sarah Palin got every single Republican vote, it would still leave 71% of all voters outside of her Fan Club.

Of that 71%, Sarah Palin's poll numbers with Indepedents are lower than whale scat at the bottom of the ocean and Democrats will not vote for her.

That is why the latest polls show Sarah Palin trailing Obama by 22%.

Sarah Palin can win a Free Republic popularity poll running away and she can even win a Republican nomination by winning over the 60% of Republicans who call themselves conservatives.

That, however, (60% of 29%) only gives her a solid base of less than 18% of all voters.

A solid base of only 18% of all voters with a negative rating in the latest polls of 50% of all voters will be a guaranteed electoral disaster of Biblical proportions in the general election.

[Brices Crossroads]

Your post misogynistic and disingenous post 87 went away, courtesy of the mods. Why don’t you follow suit?

Your early polls are so boring. I can show you polls from 1979 showing Jimmah beating Reagan 57-35. Do you really think you are convincing anyone? Go back to Mitt Central.

[onyx]

fyi - 4 OF 10 DESCRIBE THEMSELVES AS TEA PARTY VOTERS [aka] SARAH PALIN VOTERS.

[onyx]

“A nightstick the size of a telephone pole and the muscle to wield it effortlessly.”

“A nightstick the size of a telephone pole and the muscle to wield it effortlessly.”

“A nightstick the size of a telephone pole and the muscle to wield it effortlessly.”

[nopardons]

I hate to break it to YOU, but fringe party candidates do NOT win elections, for anything, no matter how many indies there are out there. And please don't cite Bernie Saunders nor Joe LIEberman as ones who have won, since neither are true/for real independents. The last time LIEberman ran, he called himself and independent DEMOCRAT !

Hmmmmmmmmmm...........in the bluest of blue states, New Jersey, Christie won and did so with indy votes.

We're two years out......who knows where what polls will say, vis-a-vis Palin, then; especially after the primaries ( should she win them )and the state of this nation. And polls can be made to say anything the takers want them to.

Gee, President Dewey and that two termer, Carter, really did swell.................didn't they? WHAT, that didn't happen? But, but..............the polls, even within weeks/days of those elections would lead one to believe that that is what would happen.