Posted on 11/04/2010 5:48:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“In a possible general election showdown, Obama leads Palin 52-44 percent among all registered voters.”
Considering that the election is two years’ off and she’s not even a “declared” candidate, I’d have to say the above numbers look pretty durn good....
I think Palin and Huckabee would split the red states (especially the South)
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I am what is supposed to be Huckabee’s core base. Southern evangelical middle class middle aged (mostly) white guy. About the highest level of authority I would grant Huckabee is as an occasional guest pastor. Very occasional.
I do not for a moment believe he has even 20% of the support within that demographic. It is just not there.
The truth of the matter is this, if Sarah Palin runs, she wins the republican nomination. Because the hard working people responsible for getting the big win on Tuesday will be the same ones out there working for her in 2012. There really is nothing CNN, the DNC, RNC, or Mitt can do to stop her. Only she can stop herself by deciding not to run. All of this is just an attempt to discourage her.
They are being silly though. All this dumping on her and her family will probably have the opposite effect than what these libs want. She has already said it will be up to her family and they seem to want her to run. It seems these attacks on her family won’t let up whether she decides to run or not, so she might as well run. She is thinking about her family though and probably won’t run if there is a real conservative is in the race.
So if the RNC really wants to make sure Sarah Palin is not the candidate, it would serve them to make sure a real conservative wins the nomination. But I doubt that would sit very well with certain losing lib RINO candidates, like Mitt.
The point was that it will be so much worse by 2012; I hardly think Palladino is a good candidate.
I would love to watch Christie destroy the muslim or hillary in a debate.
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It would be sweet indeed!
Huckabees's getting support from somewhere in the polls the past few weeks, and in some polls he leads with 25%+. He's the only one I've seen get above 25%. I doubt he's getting much from the blue states.
a year from now....McDonnell...and no, not Christine...
Out of that list right there; if anyone other than Palin is the candidate, I”ll say SCREW THE ELECTION and take a nice day trip that day. Nobody on that list, based on their RECORD, other than Sarah Palin, is worth the powder it would take to blow their gluteous maximus up!
Bobby Jindal!
We are so lucky that Obama doesn’t have any charisma or other real leadership qualities. He’s an effete and arrogant snob. Lazy as well. My point is the Republican field is hopeless except Palin who has been given too much baggage by MSM popular wisdom.
....you have to see how Dumbo screws up during the next two years before predicting how she would do.
Note that Angle ran 9% behind Sandoval in NV - he got 53%, she got 44%.
In the same way, in the general election Palin would run 6-7% behind some generic GOP candidate, somebody like Portman (not that he has any chance to get nominated, but he is a perfect example of moderately conservative GOP grandee).
This means that she can win only in the event of a full-blown economic Depression (11% unemployment etc.). This is unlikely to happen, Bernanke can print enough money to keep economy on life support for a year or two.
Assuming that the economy is moderately lousy in 2012, the establishment GOP candidate will be very competitive. Palin will raise billions, but this will not help in PA or CO.
Btw, I think Jeb Bush can beat Obama. But he is not crazy enough to run.
I do not believe the source is accurate. Whether error or deliberate deceit I don’t know, or perhaps simply name recognition, but it just isn’t to be seen. Foolish evangelical boosterism for Carter was everywhere. For Huckabee? No.
This is about as Red State and Bible Belt as it gets, these are the circles that I mostly run in, and I am seeing and hear absolutely nothing about Huckabee. People are holding their cards closer than usual, but still there should be something.
I am looking forward to a lively and spirited primary season where the VOTERS, not CNN, not the media, not the “elites” in DC, will decide who will represent Conservatives in 2012.
If the primary vote were today, it would be Palin in a landslide. But in two years, much can change.
I find it fascinating how so many on FR keep parroting the media talking points about Sarah. The left must be very scared of her to work so hard to defeat a POTENTIAL candidate this early in the game.
CNN is clearly engaging in ‘reverse psychology’- if it possesses any intelligence at all, that is...
Why? I think liberal and even moderate women will not vote for Palin. Women can be incredibly catty. The whole thing is BS because Palin is light years better than Obama a or Clinton. They are both slimy evil people.
Rasmussen Republican presidential preference polls
Of course, these are national polls with small samplings from each state. But Huckabee is the only one who has broken away from the other two in several polls.
I really wish the so called conservative groups could quit the msm meme of bashing Palin as unprepared, not experienced enough, etc. Just have a look at the WH and see how mature, experienced, etc. is the "Messiah" the msm touted. They live in never never land. Could we conservatives wake up and make up our own minds?
I have had many people spout downers about Bush and Palin that prove no thought because they just mouth the exact excrement the media have spouted.
Further, if Boehner and Repub leaders don't recognize Michelle Bachmann as a leader, they need to be taken to the woodshed.
If we do not hold their feet to the fire, they will manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Even my lawyer son told me today he is a tea party sympathizer, and he is fiscally conservative but socially a libertarian. I have never formally joined, but I am totally in line with what they have accomplished--time we ALL stand up and unashamedly let our views be known.
vaudine
I remember in 2007 we had all these hypothetical match up polls that the media told us that McCain would beat both Hillary and Obama.
Then we were told we had to pick McCain in the primaries because he was the only one who could win.
This is a CNN poll and is specious. A true poll is for likely voters. This probably over-sampled Dems, of whom there are more registered then Repubs. Also, it does not count independents, because I don't think many states have a registration for independents.
So, of course, everybody who favors Mitt or Huck takes this garbage from CNN and runs with it to prove Palin couldn't make it.
I do not think she will run--said the other day she is too free and having too much fun. (also making a ton of money and being an influence for Conservatism.)
I believe the media will tout whomever they feel can't beat Obama, such as Mitt, Huck, Newt.
If any of these three run, I will fight their nomination tooth and nail. THEY CANNOT WIN. Palin would have a much better chance.
Remember, the media tout the Repub they WANT, so they know how to knock them down--remember Dole, McCain?
vaudine
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