Huckster however would make a great Presi... eh Supreme Spiritual Leader of DanZanRyu's fantasy Theocracy, where being a "good preacher" qualifies you to be head of state.
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.
If you’re a “fan”, and you profess to see her consumed by the “dark side” (which seems to upset you to no end), why do you remain a fan?
Best you go back to the TV set to watch those “Star War” movies again, because your kvitch ain’t working here!
CA....
while i totally disagree with him,why? did i miss an especially acrimonipus post?
If Haley wants the White House, then he will have to start loosing some weight. Ditto for Huckabee. The Jersey Governor race is revealing that independents don’t like fatboys.
Massive anti-Palin Hucka-Troll hypocrite Alert!
He sure does.
Even thought neither of his parents were citizens when he was born? I know he was born in Baton Rouge a few months or so after his parents came to the US to go to LSU. So your parents don’t have to be citizens in order for one to be a NBC as long as they are born on US soil. Interesting.
Don’t get faked out by false polls.
We know these pollster’s histories, and they’re nothing to brag about.
“Huckabee is a genuinely nice guy, but didn’t they say that about Jimmy Carter.”
Carter was a friggin anti-semite. Huckabee is very pro-Israel. Probably much more than any of the other contenders so far.
Christie is winning Independents by 9 - 10 points.
“Rasmussen is disgusting.”
This is the fool that tried to convince Pat Buchanan that he had a chance to win in ‘92.
Huckabee is a back-biting weasel; unable to let a front-runner keep running.
“If she’s not running as a repub, this poll is useless.”
She’s running as a Republican, and the poll is quite useless!
you need reading lessons....you didn’t catch my drift at all
Huckster however would make a great Presi... eh Supreme Spiritual Leader of DanZanRyu's fantasy Theocracy, where being a "good preacher" qualifies you to be head of state.
Mush heads and RINOs!
“How is Rass getting such drastically different numbers than these other polls?”
rassmussen is a real pollster and online pols have no credibility whatsoever.
Give things another 18 months and I will pretty well promise you that folks will also be saying NO to BOTH of these candidates.
WHY? NEITHER bring anything NEW to the table. They're both lifelong politicians and that's what "we the people" need to move away from.
Ah thanks. The trolling was too obvious.
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