Romney-Huckabee 2012 = Palin Party.
You can safely bet Bachmann and others will follow her lead.
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.
Dangit, ah dun missed anuther’un.
I hope this person is a troll or we are in big trouble if we have people thinking the way this poster is.
Huckabee saved souls and Sarah sinned, ASTOUNDING , I suppose this person will never vote for anyone unless they have saved all sinners and their souls
ARF
might as well not even enter the next election if Huckabee wins the primaries.
We should get rid of independents in our primaries too
The poll numbers are every bit as irrelevant as the nonsense about Plain’s daughter “sinning”, then claiming it's Sarah Plain that was resposnsible for her daughter “sinning”.
President Hilary Clinton and President Rudy Guiliani say “Hello” from the 2007 polls that had them winning the primaries with ease, with plenty of room to spare:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2365721/posts?page=132#132
This is 2008. The elections are in 2012. In the last elections, every single candidate that was ahead in 2007 (with only a year to go to the primaries), got clobbered in the 2008 primaries.
I don’t know if he’d support huckabee today. But remember that many freepers supported Romney even though he was more liberal than huckabee or mccain. Romney just had to go along with Rudy.
Without even looking I recall Pawlenty; there were others too.
After looking, I find Huck and Mitt, and as for the mush head, Barbour hits the spot.
some evangelicals will come out for HUckabee and they’ll not look at anything but his religion.
Hardly a candidate to beat bozo
I agree with every word.
I can't see how. She would have to run as something other than Republican, and she has disavowed that nightmare already.
"but I am one of the few that see’s how powerful the dark side has become."
Its been powerful longer that we've been alive.
sad isn’t it?
A VERY PRO ILLEGAL ALIEN! YEA MORE TAX DOLLARS TO MEXICO THATS THE TICKET!
If Palin starts a third party, you might as well get ready for four more years of the Dear Leader.
Romney-Huckabee 2012 = Palin Party.
You can safely bet Bachmann and others will follow her lead.
I stand ewith Reagan. Take back the GOP instead of repeating 1996.
**If Palin starts a third party, you might as well get ready for four more years of the Dear Leader.**
If the GOP Makes the same IDIOTic Choices ala ‘08, you might as well get ready for four more years of the Dear Leader
Big flipping choice .. don’tcha think!
You are wrong. I mean, I disagree.
Huh?
You're living in a dream world. There is no way that Palin would have any part of a turd party. - If you thought that she was that stupid, why would you want to vote for her?
People are losing their minds on this thread.
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