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Palin Is Distant Second in GOP Match-Ups with Huckabee, Romney
Rasmussen Reports ^ | October 19, 2009 | Rasmussen Reports

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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To: reagan_fanatic
Romney & Huckabee would love for everyone to feel that way,but I for one ain't bitin'.
It's Sarah or nothing for me,and I strongly suspect i'm not the only one.
I'm sick and tired of seeing the conservative base being pushed and swayed and cajoled into just voting for "the lesser of",just because so-and-so says so.
Fish or cut bait,dammit.....that's how I feel.
Sarah can win-and WILL win-if true conservatives hang tough and hang together.
There has to be-HAS to be-a strong,unified group standing behind one candidate-one who has proven herself and put herself out there for everyone to see,who speaks the truth and espouses the very values that are the core of the conservative movement. She's got guts,she's concise in spelling out her plans and there's no double-talk with her.
We wanted another Ronnie and we have one in her.Enough of this Romney-this and Huckabee-that. Put them up against her and they wither!!!!
41 posted on 10/19/2009 8:05:39 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (And the people cry "Sarah!Sarah!" And she hears....yes,she hears......)
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To: DanZanRyu
-"Top Aides Leave McCain Camp"
-"Senator Retools Campaign Team as Money and Support Fall Off"
-"In Iowa and New Hampshire, McCain has been overtaken in the polls by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney."

JULY 17,2007

42 posted on 10/19/2009 8:05:44 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: DanZanRyu
Palin is a “failed” conservative? how so?

And how the HECK is she a FAILED Christian????

43 posted on 10/19/2009 8:06:04 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: dead
Since you hold Palin responsible for her daughter's pregnancy, I'm sure you also hold Huckabee responsible for his son torturing and hanging a dog at summer camp. Is that what you consider stellar Christianity?

Ouch!

44 posted on 10/19/2009 8:06:21 AM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: faucetman

Well, Romney or Huckabee, would be basically the Republicans doing their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in 2012.

I’d love to say Fauxbama will be so umpopular R’s could run a doughnut hole and win, but these guys are both disasters, R party really needs something better than them.

Romney gave us FauxbamaCare part I and Gay marriage, then tries to play like he’s Reagan’s heir, its insulting and rediculous. And don’t even get me started on Huck.

America needs better than these two.


45 posted on 10/19/2009 8:06:59 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: DanZanRyu

The Huckster was espousing just the other day on his tv show about Obama’s poll ratings and how they didn’t mean a thing when it comes to the actual election. He cited the fact that the election wasn’t today and when it would be held there would be tons of money used to sway and shore up the voters.

That same analogy use by the Huckster can be used in this worthless poll citing the Huckster/Rommey as the winners today. The election isn’t today and the money hasn’t been used to sway/shore up the vote.


46 posted on 10/19/2009 8:07:30 AM PDT by deport
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To: Vigilanteman
Amen. I'm tired of the establishment giving us our candidates. The GOP elites didn't like Reagan either, remember?


47 posted on 10/19/2009 8:07:32 AM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: GregB

Palin quit her 1st term as Governor. Huckabee served 10 years as Governor.

Palin’s daughter sinned. Also Palin failed to win Levi’s soul for Christ. OTOH, Huckabee, as pastor, saved several souls for Christ.

Huckabee is fit to be the Christian President of America.


48 posted on 10/19/2009 8:07:51 AM PDT by DanZanRyu
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To: Cinnamontea

Who was the dem frontrunner in 2005? Where was Obama in 2005? Where was Hillary?


49 posted on 10/19/2009 8:08:37 AM PDT by carmody
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To: faucetman
It is highly suspected that McRomney and McHuckleberry are going to be candidates in 2012.

And Hillary was supposed to be on her way to her coronation in 2008, but who is in the WH?

Many things could happen and numerous new names could arise before 2012 election cycle even begins.
50 posted on 10/19/2009 8:08:47 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: DanZanRyu
There are millions of reasons why Huck is not the best man for the Presidency, but a simple reason why he'll never win, is this photo right here:


51 posted on 10/19/2009 8:08:52 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: DanZanRyu

Bottom line: unless someone else mysteriously comes out of left field, if we can’t get Sarah, we may as well have Obama again.


52 posted on 10/19/2009 8:09:04 AM PDT by Zeddicus
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To: DanZanRyu
Palin’s daughter sinned.

Did she torture and hang a dog?

53 posted on 10/19/2009 8:09:21 AM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: DanZanRyu
Palin is a failed conservative & failed Christian.

Explain.

54 posted on 10/19/2009 8:10:05 AM PDT by svcw (The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. GW)
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To: newfreep

No fan of Huckster’s populism but if Palin had his media savvy she’d be leading this poll. She let her herself get tagged as a lightweight early on by not being ready for prime time. Sure she knows Alaska/Energy but that wasn’t enought. Sure the liberal media screwed her but she knew they were out to get her and should have been ready for it.


55 posted on 10/19/2009 8:10:22 AM PDT by Callahan
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To: moose2004

Bobb Jindal (#1 on all the above’s VP list)


Does that Jindal fellar qualify as a ‘natural born citizen’?


56 posted on 10/19/2009 8:10:41 AM PDT by deport
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To: DanZanRyu
What's the difference between Romneycare and Obamacare?
57 posted on 10/19/2009 8:10:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Ask not what the Kennedys can do for you, but what you can do for the Kennedys.)
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To: dead; DanZanRyu; newfreep; Grunthor; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; GregB
From DanZanRyu on a previous thread:

Palin’s grandson was born into sin. Appearing with Palin will compromise McDonnell’s ability to provide Christian Leadership in Richmond.

DanZanRyu, being without sin and not being "born into sin", is allowed to cast this stone. However, it remains to be seen whether any of his children or grand children sin.

58 posted on 10/19/2009 8:11:14 AM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: DanZanRyu

Huckabee is a big government conservative Christian.
I agree about MR.


59 posted on 10/19/2009 8:11:28 AM PDT by svcw (The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. GW)
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To: faucetman
Agreed. I will not vote for any of the above. I like Palin, however, more info. needed. I for one would vote for Sen. DeMint, and of course there's D. Hunter...The rest are RINO’s.
60 posted on 10/19/2009 8:11:31 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
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