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Anchorage Daily News: Poll shows Alaskans would vote for Obama over Palin
Anchorage Daily News ^ | 06/28/2011 | Sean Cockerham

Posted on 06/28/2011 6:06:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A new Hays Research poll shows Barrack Obama would beat Sarah Palin among Alaskans if the presidential election was today.

The poll found 42 percent of Alaskan voters would pick or are learning toward Obama in a head to head race against Palin for the presidency, while 36 percent of the voters would choose or are leaning toward Palin over him.

Conservative Anchorage radio host Mike Porcaro paid for Hays Research to ask the question.

“Sarah Palin showcases her Alaska roots at every opportunity, but the surprising reality is she has become highly unpopular in her home state,” Porcaro said in an emailed statement.

“Whether it is the fact she left office after serving barely two years or that some Alaskans believe her tax policies have punished our vital oil and gas industry or the ‘rock star’ nature of her media coverage, these results show Sarah Palin would lose to Obama in Alaska, where voters overwhelmingly support conservative candidates,” Porcaro said.

Porcaro hosts an afternoon show on KENI AM and owns an Anchorage advertising agency.

Hays Research of Anchorage polled 500 Alaskans who voted in at least two of the four statewide elections. The poll was on June 21st and June 22nd.

It asked:

“Although it is some time from now, thinking about the election for President of the United States next year, if the election were held today and the candidates were Democrat Barack Obama or Republican Sarah Palin, for whom would you vote or are you undecided?”

Respondents who had “strong” views favored Obama 34 percent to Palin’s 25 percent.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; obama; palin; sarahpalin
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To: ansel12

GOOD FIND! And that is exactly the feeling in ‘08 when America met SARAH and after the election.

Now the commie rats and rino’s want to tell us differently!


121 posted on 06/28/2011 8:33:10 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( The Palin Party: The Party of Patriots.)
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To: ansel12
Do not think rove are Willard have anything to do with the 25% and in the survey you listed 20% said she hurt the ticket, do not know if it is the same people but I do know enough will set out the election to let Obummer win and I do not want to see that happen. All the wishing and hoping and spinning and calling people names that the Palin supporters have done has not and will not change those facts.
122 posted on 06/28/2011 8:33:38 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: bigbob
She's NOT governor any more. She quit. Doesn't matter her justification, that's going to PISS OFF voters who put her into office when, just two years later, they're asked for their votes again for an even higher office.

This is not rocket surgery.

It's not a phony poll, just cold hard reality.

123 posted on 06/28/2011 8:35:50 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: org.whodat

You have it wrong - it’s the anti Palin crowd who is doing the name calling and posting deception like the media pawns they are.


124 posted on 06/28/2011 8:36:54 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( The Palin Party: The Party of Patriots.)
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To: newzjunkey
It's not a phony poll, just cold hard reality.

Are you shooting from your anti Palin hip or you have some evidence that this is not a phony poll?
125 posted on 06/28/2011 8:38:54 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( The Palin Party: The Party of Patriots.)
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To: SeekAndFind

>>> Anchorage Daily News: Poll shows Alaskans would vote for Obama over Palin

A more accurate headline would read “Likely Alaskan Voters Don’t Want Either Obama or Palin”.

But what would be the fun of that. Think of the scores of wailing and “what’s wrong with Alaska!!!!” posts we’d miss.


126 posted on 06/28/2011 8:39:32 PM PDT by tlb
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To: maddog55

Parker-Hays Research Group, LLC
918 Parker Street # A22
Berkeley, CA 94710-2596

nuff said...

LMAO!!

A polling org from Moscow would be more honest.


127 posted on 06/28/2011 8:41:41 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Be respectful, be courteous, have a plan to kill every flash mob member that threatens you or others)
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To: ansel12
What happened between 2008 and now? Oh, right! She QUIT on Alaska's voters.

That'll endear anyone to a candidate! /s

128 posted on 06/28/2011 8:42:41 PM PDT by newzjunkey (sycophants for palin will be her undoing)
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To: newzjunkey

“What happened between 2008 and now? Oh, right! She QUIT on Alaska’s voters.”


Nothing happened except that we are in between elections, Palin is still first in favorability with Republicans and their top choice for 2012.

Here are some recent polls, and they reflect more or less what we have seen for almost three years running, Palin either first or second.

Three days ago the AP-Gfk poll showed Palin as first in favorability among all GOP candidates with republicans

Twelve days ago The Economist/YouGov poll had her at first on the 2012 list as nominee choice.

Eighteen days ago the Reuters/IPSOS poll had Palin at first of the 2012 list as nominee choice.


129 posted on 06/28/2011 8:46:59 PM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: presently no screen name
Are you shooting from your blind adulation for Palin hip or do you have some evidence that this IS a phony poll?

It's consistent with prior polls. It's likely voters. Just because YOU don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't reflect real opinion of AK voters.

130 posted on 06/28/2011 8:47:55 PM PDT by newzjunkey (sycophants for palin: chasing away potential allies and slandering other candidates)
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To: ansel12
If she can't win her own Alaska, she can't win the presidency against Obama.
131 posted on 06/28/2011 8:49:49 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Even Mondale won his home state. Gore didn't. President Gore? Nope. Didn't happen.)
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To: org.whodat

Romney will cause the base to sit out the election like he did in 2008 when he could not fire them up for him.

Palin caused a higher turn out because she was on the ticket.

Palin and a billion dollars will be a campaign for the history books.


132 posted on 06/28/2011 8:50:16 PM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this guy Mercowski’s nephew, son, brother, significant other? I noticed he offered up the three zingers himself as the possible reasons for his suspicious findings against Palin and for Obama.

(And as you know I’m not a Palin first and only type, but really this is the real bridge to nowhere, surely.)


133 posted on 06/28/2011 8:53:35 PM PDT by RitaOK
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To: newzjunkey
It's consistent with prior polls. It's likely voters.

Really?

Just because YOU don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't reflect real opinion of AK voters.

NO! More like you do like it so it must be true! Check out post #9 and others before you embarrass yourself some more. If you were a real newsjunkey - you would already know it - but I see - your news is bias.
134 posted on 06/28/2011 8:55:13 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( The Palin Party: The Party of Patriots.)
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To: newzjunkey

LOL, she will win Alaska don’t worry about that, Obama will not.


135 posted on 06/28/2011 8:55:22 PM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Remember, the nutjobs who filed all those complaints against Palin had connections to the Anchorage Daily News.

I think it is just more BS!


136 posted on 06/28/2011 8:55:25 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Bigtigermike

Hays poll in 2008 grossly understated McCain/Palin strength in Alaska (said McCain/Palin ahead by 2.7% on November 4th, when actual margin of McCain/Palin victory in the state was 59.8% to 38%, a spread of 21.8%, MORE THAN 10X what Hays-Hole-in-the-Wall Polling called.


137 posted on 06/28/2011 9:05:59 PM PDT by cookcounty (Would someone PLEASE give the President a calculator for his birthday???)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hays, Anne

Hays Research Group/Research Direct

$250 04/15/2005 P

ALASKA DEMOCRATIC PARTY - Democrat


138 posted on 06/28/2011 9:06:15 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: cookcounty

oh, yeah, ok, I fat fingered, sevenX, then.


139 posted on 06/28/2011 9:08:54 PM PDT by cookcounty (Would someone PLEASE give the President a calculator for his birthday???)
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To: SeekAndFind

Likely voters were surveyed in a live telephone interview, and were chosen from a database of Alaskan households with a member who has voted in at least two of the last four statewide elections.

Here is the question...
Although it is some time from now, thinking about the election for President of the United States next year, if the election were held today and the candidates were Democrat Barack Obama or Republican Sarah Palin, for whom would you vote or are you undecided?


Another result...note the combined positive and the dates.

140 posted on 06/28/2011 9:11:57 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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