Posted on 09/22/2010 1:31:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Here are two more data points from the weekend to back up my argument that the 2012 Republican nomination is not Sarah Palin’s to lose. First, the Values Voter Summit straw poll, a decent gauge of sentiment among the kind of activists Palin would presumably need to rally, in which the former Alaska governor racked up just 7 percent of the vote, trailing Mike Pence (who gave a barn-burner of a speech), Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. Second, a new 2012 poll from Public Policy Polling, showing Romney leading with 22 percent, followed by Huckabee at 21, Gingrich at 18, and Palin at 17 percent. And note this statistic:
As is the case every month Sarah Palin is the most personally popular of the Republicans, with 66 percent viewing her favorably. She is followed by Huckabee at 60 percent and Gingrich and Romney at 57 percent.
The problem for Palin is that a smaller percentage of the people who like her personally support her for President than any of the other Republicans. 37 percent of the voters who like Romney also say he’s their choice for the 2012 nomination and the same is true for 32 percent who like Gingrich and Huckabee. But just 24 percent who see Palin positively on a personal level translate that to intent to vote for her. [emphasis mine — R.D.]
About a month ago, I wrote a column arguing that the most interesting pre-primary contest in the G.O.P. was arguably the battle to see if somebody (a Mitch Daniels? a Jon Thune? a Haley Barbour? a Tim Pawlenty?) would manage to unseat Romney from his perch as the safe, competent-seeming, establishment-y candidate...
(Excerpt) Read more at douthat.blogs.nytimes.com ...
What ... you want them to mention Palin in every headline or something? Sheesh.
The media didn't choose the first-place finisher, Republicans did. The reporters just reported the results.
Lol, right now Palin is positioned very well to take the Republican primary.
I don’t see that Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee or any one else is better positioned.
The Mittens Militia writes yet another Palin hit piece
If Sarah decides to run the election is hers to lose. She will trounce Mittens in the primary. Gingrich has NO chance. Pence? Well, maybe but if anything he will be Palin’s pick for. VP
Darling, don’t you find it strange that they’d poll your average Republican or average Repub voter, and that the majority would say Pence? Honest to goodness? Pence? The man has nearly nil name recognition and yet...Pence.
I question WHO they questioned. Polls can be skewed to get the desired results of the pollster.
Clearly, that polling proves the point that is terrifying both the Democrats and RINOs.
Independents are not moderates.
You, too, are edging into unicorns and skittles territory.
Moderate: 28/61
Those people didn’t want to admit to being liberals...LOL.
No dear. I’m not. What I said made sense. It’s just that you’re very anti-Palin. I know from many Palin threads. And when you can’t put up a decent argument for your point you anti-Palin people resort to talking about skittles and unicorns.
Nope. What these number say is that there's a difference between liking Sarah Palin, and wanting her to be president.
The difference between Sarah Palin and Mike Pence, for example, can be summed up by the fact that Pence can write and give a speech like this one. That's a damn-sight more presidential than a you-betcha-ing faux grizzly.
That would be awesome and fine with me
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