It is so foolish to focus on Romney vs. Palin and NOT on GOP nominee vs. Obama (Osama). Your analysis does not account for the General Election. Why won’t you post the same stats and poll numbers for that one with Palin as the candidate and then make your case for Palin?
The most important election is for the GOP nomination.
I beg to disagree with you.
There are only three people that have any chance to be the next President: the current one President Obama, Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin.
It will be 1976 or 1980 all over again: two strong candidates going at each other, with GOP primary voters picking sides.
I’m not saying it will happen tomorrow or next month but by the fall after Palin gets in, the majority of conservatives, evangelicals and TP supporters who oppose Romney as the GOP nominee will then be forced to get behind Palin. There will be no other option. They will see the writing on the wall.
And the polls will show that as they show it now.
Techno can’t post accurate stats for the general until after the GOP primaries are over. Campaigns make a difference. The ones who run the best campaigns during the primaries will get a bump in general election polls.
It’s early. The GOP candidates are just starting to make their moves. Not everyone is in yet. I predict Huntsman, Giuliani, & Palin will run. That will shake up the field. Perry & Christie are interested but I’m not sure if they will go for it.
With the rate of inflation, gas prices, unemployment, mortgage foreclosures not to mention all these wars Obama has us in now and his foreign policy failures, the poll numbers will change for the general. How do you feel towards Obama each time you fill up your tank? I bet millions and millions feel that way too and the numbers will grow.