Posted on 10/19/2009 7:48:35 AM PDT by DanZanRyu
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s forthcoming autobiography has been at the top of the Amazon book charts for weeks, and it hasn’t even been released yet. At least in the eyes of the political Left, she is now perhaps America’s most visible national Republican.
But new Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveying finds Palin losing handily in face-to-face march-ups with her two likeliest challengers for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Among likely Republican primary voters, Palin now trails former Arkansas governor-turned-Fox-TV-host Mike Huckabee by 20 points – 55% to 35%.
When her opponent is ex-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Palin loses by 15 – 52% to 37%.
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When given a list of five candidates and asked who they would vote for in 2012, 29% of Republican voters nationwide say Huckabee, while 24% prefer Romney and 18% Palin.
In July, it was close to a three-way tie: 25% said Romney, 24% Palin and 22% Huckabee.
It’s noteworthy that Huckabee’s gains since July are matched almost precisely by Palin’s decline. That suggests a large pool of voters are committed to choosing between two candidates routinely dismissed as unacceptable in the eyes of Republicans in Washington, DC. At the moment, 47% prefer either Huckabee or Palin while 42% prefer a candidate more acceptable to Republican political leaders. That divide is also reflected, with similar results, in a Huckabee-Romney head to head match-up.
Twenty-one percent (21%) of primary voters also say Palin is the GOP candidate they would least like to see win the party’s presidential nomination. Just nine percent (9%) say the same of Romney, and eight percent (8%) feel that way about Huckabee.
Support for Huckabee and Romney against Palin is nearly the same among both men and women. Suggesting that Romney’s Mormon faith may still be a problem among some Christian conservatives, Palin leads him by 14 points – 52% to 38% - among GOP primary voters who describe themselves as Evangelical Christians. But Romney beats Palin by 26 points among other Protestants – 58% to 32% - and holds similar winning margins among Catholic voters and those of other faiths.
On the other hand, Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, beats Palin by 17 points among Evangelical Christians and 29 points among other Protestants. A similar spread is evident among Republican voters of other faiths, but Huckabee has just an eight-point edge over Palin among Catholic voters.
Earlier polling showed that Palin trails Hillary Clinton in a general election match-up.
In early July, 40% of Republican voters nationwide said Palin’s decision to resign as governor of Alaska hurt her chances of winning the party’s presidential nomination in 2012.
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but the marathon argument is actually kind of validating Romney. he has run, kept his campaign largely intact with PACs, has deep pockets and for all intents and purposes never stopped running really. Much as i hate to be the bearer of bad news but i truly feel that Palin shot herself in the foot with the whole stepping down from the Governorship thing. rightly or wrongly she is going to be perceived as weak or a quitter etc.
i really think that any nominee will probably either be Romney or someone else who is under the radar.
I can’t and won’t vote for any of them. All 3 of these gets a NO from me.
Go thump your bible someplace else. We’re all booked up here.
You're crazy.
No, thank you, I have given up RINO. Romney and the Huckster are no better than McCain.
DanZanRyu probably voted for JIMMY CARTER, or would have wanted to.. (if he’s a wet behind the ears, snot nosed punk)
Ah, yes .... the everyone is a RINO who doesnt agree with anything and everything someone says
Give it a rest.
I'm a Palin supporter(I'd vote for her in any election), but Palin will NEVER be President. Why you ask? Because she didnt finish her term in office.
End of Story.
If someone leads a life of outrageous sexual (and other) sin and then confesses that sin, gets saved and then lives and behaves accordingly, do you doubt their salvation? Does no one ever change their opinion in your world? Do you believe them to all be liars?
All that said, Romney isn’t even on my list of favorite candidates but I DO believe him that his opinion on abortion and gay “rights” has changed for the better. Until I see evidence to the contrary, I believe his transformation.
Now if I could just figure out why he thinks socialized medicine is a good thing......
So now we stone the mother for sins of the daughter? thinking like that is why so often the Christian voters get marginilized. Huck could get elected dog catcher now days. Its is so funny how few people relize how without Palin on the ticket, Obama would have handed him his A$$ on a platter!
I have posted this information more than once, but here it goes again........
Both Woodrow Wilson and Grover Cleveland were elected POTUS with two years experience as governors.......
Teddy Roosevelt was elected VP with McKinley with two years of experience as the governor of NY.......
Sarah has plenty of experience for either position.......
As far as being a ‘quitter’; pull out a twenty dollar bill and look at who is on it. Another ‘quitter’......Ole Hickory quit his Senate position after two years because he hated the job......then he ran for POTUS four years later and won the election. He is on the twenty dollar bill........not bad for a ‘quitter’.........
People do you see what’s coming....Palin will be our next Ross Perot....and America will slip over the edge.
I’m a Palin fan, but I am one of the few that see’s how powerful the dark side has become.
VK on alert......
LOL - Huck is great TeeVee host but in dangerous times give me Sarah!
http://talibanrising.blogspot.com/2009/10/everything-i-need-to-know-about-sarah.html
**No, thank you, I have given up RINO. Romney and the Huckster are no better than McCain.**
IF that’s the choice in 12, and my Congressidiot runs unopposed (as usual).. the only pole I’ll be seeing that day is a FISHING POLE!
McLame was my last RINO VOTE... ONLY REASON HE got that much was .... SARAH!
http://www.newsweek.com/id/78241
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Huckabee+dog+torture&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
I guess the poster means that Huckabee can smile and talk folksy and has the innate ability to kiss liberal butt.
Must think that Sarah Palin isn’t “nice” enough.
Huckabee is a genuinely nice guy, but didn’t they say that about Jimmy Carter.
Romney is a moral man. He doesn’t drink, smoke or chew etc. Romney is hard working person.
But he is in the middle to left of the Republican Party for sure. His father was put up by Nelson Rockefeller to be the GOP candidate in 1968 before George Romney made his infamous “brainwashing” comment about Vietnam.
Its about policy and both guys really wan’t Big Government to continue with the financing (taxes) shuffled around.
That’s a non-starter with me.
“Huckabee is an accomplished conservative”
Two points, Huckabee is not a conservative.
America will never elect a Pastor... An Imam, maybe, but never a pastor.
I know I know, GOD has chosen him, just like he did last time. I will not vote for Huckabee.
I’m still going with Thad McCotter if I have to write him in.
It's hard to keep these things in mind, but actually, the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire are just over two years off, the caucus in late 2011, and the NH primary in early 2012.
And, the campaigning for the Republican and Dim primaries will start in the first half of 2011, and debates starting that summer or fall, only fifteen to twenty months away. And that's the time period when Sarah or any other candidate must establish his or her self.
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