Posted on 10/17/2009 9:39:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In July it was Romney 25, Palin 24, Huck 22.
Then again, Rudy Giuliani once pulled something like 45 percent before last year’s primaries. Perspective.
These numbers reflect an improvement for Huckabee since July when the three candidates were virtually even. Huckabee’s gain appears to be Palin’s loss as Romney’s support has barely changed.
The numbers for Huckabee and Romney look even stronger when GOP voters were asked which candidate they would least like to see get the nomination. Pawlenty came on top in that category with 28%. Palin was second at 21% while 20% named Gingrich. Romney and Huckabee were in the single digits with 9% and 8% respectively…
Romney leads all prospects among voters who attend church once a month or less. Huckabee leads among more frequent churchgoers. Huckabee holds a huge lead among Evangelical Christians with Palin in second and Romney a distant third.
The person Republicans would least like to see win the nomination is … Tim Pawlenty? I thought the rap on T-Paw, at least for the moment, is that he didn’t inspire strong feelings one way or another. As for Sarahcuda, on the same day that he took the July poll, Rasmussen ran another one asking if her decision to resign would help or hurt her presidential ambitions. The split was 24/40 — and yet she was still ahead of Huckabee at the time. If it’s not her resignation that’s hurting her now, as I speculated this morning, what is? Too much Levi Johnston freak show collateral damage, maybe? I don’t think most people even know who he is.
Not to worry, says Matt Latimer. Authenticity shall triumph in the end:
Palin isn’t going away (at least not yet) because in her own way she represents what Barack Obama represented for many Democrats: someone who stands apart from the corrupt and cynical Washington system that has let true believers down. Republicans remember that Palin stood up against the crooked Republican establishment in Alaska—while out-of touch GOP senators in Washington actually applauded Alaska’s crony-in-chief, Ted “Bridge to Nowhere” Stevens, after he was booted out of office amid scandal. (The charges against Stevens were eventually dropped.)
The rank-and-file are tired of the bland phonies running the GOP. They are tired of Republican compromises that bloated spending and expanded the federal government. And they feel helpless against a team of buddies running each campaign more cynically than the last. GOP voters just might be ready to burn their village down in order to save it. You can almost hear the line now. What’s the difference between a hockey mom and Robespierre? Lipstick.
If the grand pooh-bahs of the GOP think they can find someone to push her aside, their pickings seem drearily slim. Version 2.0 of the governor affectionately known in some circles as “Mitt Rom-bot” is currently under construction. It will probably function just as lamely as the last. Poor Governor Romney. Every move the Mittster makes looks like it has first been diagrammed in a PowerPoint presentation. When commentators noted that even his hair looked too perfect, his aides mussed it up. It ended up looking perfectly disheveled. We’ve had enough inauthenticity for a while.
We’ve had enough ideological inauthenticity, but using the degree of dishevelment of Mitt Romney’s hair to measure that isn’t really a game I want to play. Palin and Huckabee might be the most personally authentic, salt-of-the-earth candidates of the bunch, but does that necessarily mean they’re less likely to get rolled by Democrats if elected? Because that’s all I care about. If Mitt can get jobs growing again between trips to the country club, good enough. Personal authenticity can be useful as a proxy for ideological authenticity, but ultimately it’s only the latter that’s important. Sometimes it feels like that’s a minority position these days.
Great question—I do not know.
On the other hand, the pollsters must know who to call to come up with their numbers—depending on who they work for.
Let’s see whose book sells best, shall we...
You, sir, are full of it. I can only hope you made this post in sarcasm.
The Huckster is a NOTHING but a populist who will take any position he thinks will get him elected - including amnesty for illegals.
Huckabee is the reason we had McLaim as the candidate. He stayed in as the spoiler and did some very mean if unethical things to make sure that Romney was marginalized. I believe he did this because of his religious beliefs while McCain partnered with him for political beliefs.
He is a liberal wishy washy person that would make Jimmy Carter look Presidential.
You will see that the Main Stream media will treat Huckabee like they treated McCain. They will not say anything bad about him, in fact they will laud him as a great and wonderful American until he receives the nomination.
They know that a liberal Republican can easily be beaten by any kind of Democrat - Liberal Conservative or moderate.
As with McCain their aim is to make sure the weakest Republican is nominated for the Presidential Candidate.
I agree. Last thing we need is the male Oprah back in the political arena.
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Just curious: do you disagree only with the the result of the Value's Voters Summit straw poll, or do you also disagree with their agenda?
Among other things, the Family Research Council (which sponsored the straw poll) is pro-life, against judicial activism, against the death tax, and opposed the Sotomayor nomination.
http://www.frc.org/issues
“Polling this question 3 years in advance is pure idiotic spin.”
AND useless noise.
Any poll that had McCain/Palin that far ahead close to the election was just flat out BS. McCain blew the election when the financial crash hit and he showed himself to be completely clueless.
Yeah, right.
America needs a POTUS that follows the Constitution and doesn’t seek to grow it or expand the nanny state.
Fascinating. You have somehow managed to do exactly what the liberals do with Rush Limbaugh.
Oh, PLEASE!
NO Huckster!
For the past two months, Palin has been out of sight and out of mind.
Huckabee’s mug is plastered on all over on FNC. First there is his Weekend show, then he makes several pundit appearances on Greta, Hannity, O’Reilly, and Fox & Friends. Plus ABC affiliate radio stations run the Huckabee report, a weekly radio commentary that Huckabee gives on the issue of the week. In Chicago, the Huckabee report is broadcasted run after Rush’s show. Huckabee has effectively used the media to promote himself.
Why don't he use it to cut taxes and spending, and let private and religious groups at the local level do the values thingy? I don't need a European Christian Democrat for President.
He's not acceptable, period.
I don't want a religious blowhard in the WH.
Most of the "values voters" who I know personally are pro-gun, pro-life, pro-military ... but will pull the lever every time for the Democrat or RINO who promises them the biggest hunk of free government cheese.
This is the heart and soul of the Huckabee demographic.
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