Posted on 07/23/2010 6:37:48 PM PDT by TitansAFC
Via Conservatives 4 Palin, not only is this the best poll I’ve seen for her this year, it comes from the august precincts of The Economist.
Dude, is this happening?
Sarah Palin 28% Mitt Romney 18% Newt Gingrich 17% Mike Huckabee 13% Mitch Daniels 4% Tim Pawlenty 1% Mike Pence 1% Haley Barbour 1% John Thune 1% No preference 17%
That’s a sample of Republicans, natch. Among tea-partiers, specifically, it’s Palin 26, Romney 19, Gingrich 16, and Huckabee 14. (Mitt does better among tea-partiers than among the GOP generally?) She also leads among a sample of all voters, albeit by only two points over Romney. Can’t tell if this represents a surge for her or if he’s simply fallen back a bit over time due to disgruntlement over RomneyCare, but great news for Palin supporters either way.
Do we dare discuss … the bad news? From the crosstabs:
12. Do you think Sarah Palin would have the ability to be an effective president? Yes 28% No 51% Not sure 20%
* 18. What do you think is Sarah Palin’s main priority? What’s best for the country 23% What’s best for her family 18% What’s best for her career 49% Something else 9%
That’s among all voters, who split 41/31 for Obama in a head-to-head match-up and 30/54 on the question of whether they think it’s likely that Palin would beat him if she wins the GOP nomination. The one bright spot in the crosstabs? When asked if the media has been harder on her, treated her the same, or gone easier on her than other politicians, the split is 47/18/22. For Obama it’s only 32/21/37 and for Hillary it’s 27/34/28. In other words, even among a sample of the general public that’s cool to the idea of her as president, there’s plenty of sympathy for how she’s been treated by the press. That’ll be a useful weapon for her if/when she runs and the frenzy of attacks begins, which explains why she was so sharp in rattling off her criticisms of the media to the Daily Caller yesterday. And it’s also a reminder of the point I made last week about her opponents needing to be careful not to condescend to her. No doubt some of this sympathy from the public is a backlash to media lefties unfairly accusing her of being some kind of dullard. That backlash can be transferred to candidates too, I’m sure.
From Alaska morning radio, here’s the latest on whether she’s running next year or not. Skip ahead to 3:50.
It’s a sad state of affairs but the only one in the title I’d vote for is Palin.
If the MSM considers Palin the weakest candidate among the Republicans, so they’re pushing her to the public, will we say she’s an MSM creation?
What else would average Americans think, considering what has been filling the airwaves since August of 2008?
I like Sarah a lot. She says what we want to hear and she has our support, BUT I don’t think she can win the Presidency in 2012.
Her Thighness (Hitlery) will most likely make a run for it denouncing 0bama’s leftist policies to make herself look more in the center. Those who have voter remorse over the zer0 will vote for her 100%. It’s all part of the game.
Hunter/Palin 2012
Part of the reason for that can be found in my tag line (stolen from another FReeper)
“Palin 28
Romney 18
Gingrich 17
Huckabee 13
Undecided 24
Hunter 1”
I hear Sarah is building a big new constituency while the Hunters are actually out trying to get CONSERVATIVES elected and our border protected. You don’t see the Hunters hanging out with mobsters like McCain does. Or white trash like Palin is.
‘Kate Plus 8’ plus Sarah: Kate Gosselin brings her brood to alaska to ‘go camping’ with Sarah Palin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2557774/posts
And while you’re pushing your rino ‘win at all cost’ crappola, just remember that’s the kind of thinking that got us Obama and McCain.
Yup.
Secretary of Horticulture. I am laughing my butt off !
I wish they’d poll these people who don’t think Palin would make a good President to ask why not. I’ll bet half would recite some gag line from SNL.
Which unfortunately means that she only gets support from people who want her to be president
From the article:
[among Republicans] "Sarah Palin 28% Mitt Romney 18% Newt Gingrich 17% Mike Huckabee 13% Mitch Daniels 4% Tim Pawlenty 1% Mike Pence 1% Haley Barbour 1% John Thune 1% No preference 17%"
[among Tea Partiers] "Palin 26, Romney 19, Gingrich 16, and Huckabee 14."
"She also leads among a sample of all voters..."
Good one!
Though I still believe it will be a seating Governor that takes the GOP ticket and wins the WH in 2012. Who that Governor will be??
NONE of the above
They certainly are.
Hunter/Palin 2012
Hunter? Catfish Hunter? Nice pick but he passed sometime ago.
” And while you’re pushing your rino ‘win at all cost’ crappola, just remember that’s the kind of thinking that got us Obama and McCain.”
They don’t care, they drank the Palinaid.
“Palin 28
Romney 18
Gingrich 17
Huckabee 13
Undecided 24
All losers.
IMHO all of those three are o, 0, and o to me. I had to hold my nose to vote for the one world er. GWB. The only reason I voted for Mcqueeg was Sarah Palin and Barrack Obama. No more RINOs for this old gal, and that’s doing it right!
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