Interesting.
At the moment, Sarah is in third/fourth place, behind Paul and Cruz. Bearing in mind that the poll is open to everyone, not just Republicans or Conservatives or GOP Primary voters, this is amazing.
1.) Nobody thinks she is running, so to place that well so far is telling. Everyone else on this list is assumed to be running.
2.) Cruz = Palin as far as who generally supports them (no, not EVERYONE, but most), and I imagine most of these votes go behind whichever of the two run.
3.) Paul and online voting, especially since he’s gonna get 100% of the Liberal and Libertarian vote, is going to be as accurate as Paul and straw polls. No online poll or straw poll with the name “Paul” in it is ever won by anyone else, ever. His support is monumentally overstated for that reason.
In reality, I see this as an interesting sign for both Cruz and Palin. As long as one of them runs, and the other supports them, I think we have the power to rock the primaries and minimize the Huckatorum vote-splitting of the past couple of cycles.
I’ll take either Cruz or Palin, and I am very encouraged at BOTH of their chances right now between recent GOP polls and this Drudge poll.
I hope you were able to see Sarah Palin’s awesome address to the CPAC crowd! She rocked the house and all conservative viewer-voters, I’m sure. I agree with all the points you made. I’m heartened to see that GOP-e’s candidates are not faring well in Drudge’s Poll, particularly NJ’s so-called “come-back” governor.