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Poll: Palin 2012 frontrunner for GOP
Seattle PI/CNN ^ | 3/3/09 | staff

Posted on 03/03/2009 4:28:47 PM PST by pissant

A new CNN poll shows Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leading potential 2012 GOP primary opponents.

The survey of 429 Republicans showed Palin at 29%, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 26 percent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 21 percent and Louisiana Gov. Gov. Bobby Jindal trailing the field with 9 percent.

The poll has a margin of error of 4.5 percent.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; 2012gopprimary; gop; palin
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No more "mavericks". Let's try a Reaganite instead.
1 posted on 03/03/2009 4:28:47 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

Gee! Starting early, huh? My tagline.


2 posted on 03/03/2009 4:30:05 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012!)
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To: pissant

They just don’t know Jindal well enough yet.


3 posted on 03/03/2009 4:30:18 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: pissant

4 posted on 03/03/2009 4:31:02 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: pissant

Mitt still stuck at 20%....


5 posted on 03/03/2009 4:32:16 PM PST by 11th Commandment (United States is a NOW a Terrorist Nation- we export abortion!)
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To: pissant

Interesting, because at CPAC, Mitt won the straw poll.


6 posted on 03/03/2009 4:32:58 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: 11th Commandment

Mitt needs a new set of principles. The last ones weren’t focus-grouped properly.

Best,

Chris


7 posted on 03/03/2009 4:33:56 PM PST by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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To: pissant

At this point, a Reaganite WOULD be considered a ‘maverick’, compared to most Republicans in office today.


8 posted on 03/03/2009 4:34:06 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: pissant

Bank on it. Huckabee will be another pain in the a**.

He’s an evil POS.


9 posted on 03/03/2009 4:34:11 PM PST by nhwingut (,)
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To: SuziQ

It’s almost all based on name recognition at this point.


10 posted on 03/03/2009 4:34:40 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: 11th Commandment

Mitt is such a loser.
Stuck with buying off straw votes like at CPAC.
Stuck with having to use surrogates to attack
... other GOP candidates.


11 posted on 03/03/2009 4:35:12 PM PST by Diogenesis (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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Maverick is McCain lingo... she had to use it.

She is a real Reagan woman.

12 posted on 03/03/2009 4:37:04 PM PST by SolidWood (Palin: "In Alaska we eat therefore we hunt.")
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To: pissant

Long way to go. I believe that at this time in 1969, losing 1968 VP candidate Muskie was also the front runner for the 1972 Democratic nomination. The good thing about today’s presidential process is if Palin is proven to be prone to implode like Muskie, the mad dog media will bring in out in plenty of time to look for an alternative conservative champion. And I suspect that by 2011-2012, strong conservatives are going to look a whole lot better to the general American public.


13 posted on 03/03/2009 4:37:31 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: pissant

why are we assuming there will be elections in 2012?


14 posted on 03/03/2009 4:38:26 PM PST by GeronL (Will bankrupting America lead to socialism?)
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To: pissant

The Seattle PI (which is going backrupt) are just marking her bullseye for the MSM to destroy for the next 2 years.

Once 2010 rolls around, she will be ridiculed in the MSM. That’s the intention of why the CNN poll came out.


15 posted on 03/03/2009 4:40:05 PM PST by max americana
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To: SolidWood

When she disowns her support for Amnesty and TARP, I’ll take a 2nd look.


16 posted on 03/03/2009 4:40:13 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: GeronL

I thought there are no real elections in a rigged communistic one party system.


18 posted on 03/03/2009 4:42:03 PM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: SuziQ

CPAC...east coast blue-bloods.

That staw poll is lame.


19 posted on 03/03/2009 4:43:02 PM PST by Retired Greyhound
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HANNITY: Well, you know, both you and Senator McCain supported the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. You both opposed the bailout of government intervention as it relates to Lehman or Merrill. But now we read this morning that AIG is going to get some type of government bailout.

Was that the right call?

PALIN: Well, you know, first, Fannie and Freddie, different because quasi-government agencies there where government had to step in because of the adverse impacts all across our nation, especially with homeowners. It’s just too impacting, we had to step in there.

I do not like the idea though of taxpayers being used to bailout these corporations. Today it was AIG, important call there, though, because of the construction bonds and the insurance carrier duties of AIG. But first and foremost, taxpayers cannot be looked to as the bailout, as the solution to the problems on Wall Street.


20 posted on 03/03/2009 4:43:25 PM PST by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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