FOX News Poll: August 10, 2011 (Comaparison of all Presidential candidates, declared and undeclared)

FOX News ^ | August 10, 2011 | FOX News Poll

[onyx]

Weird how these “negatives” only show up in Fox News Polls. I am sure someone out there can find the recent polls that show her with an over 70% positive rating among Republicans.

You noticed *that* too!

Also weird how Fox News and the panel always manage to ignore news about her!

Why, it's as though she isn't even considering a run...LOL.

I'm partiularly fond of those Fox Polls which poll a whole 324 peeps, and have a margin of error of 5.5+! It's a *rule* that Palin must come in 1% point under the third *announced candidate*........LOL.

[ajsteele1]

What kind of polls are these? These polls and others have no backdrop to their origin. Are you asking persons in Illonis or Alaska? Are you polling in a highly liberal or conservative city...or town? Many polls are biased. You rightly infer that a Fox poll will be different than an MSNBC poll. These polls mean nothing about Palin’s status without a reference point. Believe me, Palin is surging contrary to the biased liberal articles. Do some real research!

[Polybius]

Weird how these “negatives” only show up in Fox News Polls. I am sure someone out there can find the recent polls that show her with an over 70% positive rating among Republicans.

The are different types of "negatives".

There is a huge difference between a "likeability" question that asks "Do you have a favorable impression of Jane Doe?" and a perceived competence question that asks, "Do you think that Jane Doe would make a good (President/airline pilot/surgeon)?"

I have a very good impression of my 93 year old aunt and I am certain that you would have one too.

Be that as it may, I would definitely answer that my 93 year old aunt would NOT make a good President or airline pilot or surgeon and you should too ..... No matter how much you may like her, personally.

Ask a Palin supporter if he/she has a "Favorable" impression of Sarah Palin and the answer will be, "Yes!!!!"

Ask that same Palin supporter if he/she believes that Sarah Palin would be a good brain surgeon for themselves and answer will be, "Hell, no!!!!"

Likewise, the large majority of Republicans "like" Sarah Palin and have a "Favorable" opinion of her while the vast majority of Democrats simply hate her guts.

On the other hand, even though they may "like" Sarah Palin, 58% of Republicans do not believe that she would make a good President.

[TLI]

This is beyond stupid.

Why are we looking at a poll that oversampled DEMOCRATS asking who the Republican President should be?

No DAMN wonder they like Mittwitt!

Results among subgroups have larger sampling errors, including:
Democrats (n = 392) ± 5%
Republicans (n = 320) ± 5.5%
Independents (n = 167) ± 7.5%
GOP Primary Voters (n = 319) ± 5.5%

Only 320 Republicans polled out of a total of 879?

BTW, I just flipped on the evening propaganda and there is the runt I have been waiting six months to hear from.

George Stephanopoulos.

He is over in Iowa with his little grin and the usual BS.

When asked who his pick is he responds his number two guy is...

Mittwitt.

Who is the little bastard’s number one guy that he gave a two minute glowing speech for?

You got it.

Rick the PRIC.

There is your communists officially approved “opponent” designated to lose to the One.

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[Polybius]

As long as Sarah knows these polls are ALL from the pit of hell...nothing to worry about. ALL the pollsters are either Rep Establishment or Liberal...Nobody else polls...THIS IS A FACT!!!

As I posted elsewhere, you ignore data at your own peril.

Prior to the Christine O'Donnell fiasco, all polls predicted that fiasco and excuses, identical to your current excuse, were thrown out by the true believers.

Sure enough, Delaware now has a self-described Marxist as a U.S. Senator until at least 2016.

[onyx]

Rational Thought: Ask that self-described, "doctor" Polybius, how candidates HUCKABEE & TRUMP are doing? LOL.

Egad! Talk about using OLD POLLS!

PALIN CANNOT IMPROVE HER NEGATIVES, WITHOUT FIRST RUNNING, which is no guarantee that she will prevail in the primaries, yet "Doctor Polybius", is already dismissing her, based on *early polls*, NOT Lab results, MRI's or x-rayss!

I'll keep my own M.D. husband! He'd never compare politics to the practice of medicine!

[YHAOS]

"I'm a doctor."

You are?!
What do you think you'll take up once 0bamaCare becomes fully operative?

[Friendofgeorge]

You believe the MSM/Rep est polls at your own peril

[gardencatz]

At this point it’s possible for ANYONE to change their positive & negative impressions. That’s what primary season is for. I think having more choices is best. It will all sort itself out in the end. At this point ALL those thinking about running have internal polls and know what they need to work on. My guess is that polls will be all over the place at this point. In Hot Air’s monthly poll (which is probably almost all Republican voters who pay attention to politics) Sarah Palin comes out ahead, way ahead, every time. So time will tell. There’s room for everyone to support their preferred candidate.

Cindie

[JPG]

'Sarah isn't running.'

(Oh, Gees, what will I do if she does run? I'll look like a total jerk since I've posted that so many times on FR. I sure hope I'm right, but I'm not really sure. I'm just putting on a brave face. Maybe I should post it a 1,000 more times? Please, please do not run, Sarah. I really don't want to find out if I like crow or not.)

[luvie]

RUN SARAH.....R U N!!

[gardencatz]

And all polls said pretty much the same thing about Reagan that they did about O’Donnell. If she’s not the one most people want she won’t win. If she is she will. Pretty simple, really.

Cindie

[Rational Thought]

I'm not going to reply to your post with another poll as I've seen enough evidence over the years to tell me early polls are junk. Even should you wish to use them as a basis for an opinion, I have seen other polls recently which contradict this Fox poll.

I'll cut to the chase. The Tea Party is likely to be a force in 2012, much as they were in 2010. Gov. Perry did receive Tea Party support when running for Governor in 2010, probably due to the alternatives.

Gov. Perry does have the support of the Republican establishment and thus far, this same establishment doesn't think to highly of the Tea Party and vice versa.

Can a Perry candidacy successfully combine these two different groups? How will Perry play outside of Texas?

I don't even pretend to have answers. But from what I can see, the best scenario for a unified Republican nominee is if everyone declares and competes, including Giuliani (who has been quietly setting up an organization in New Hampshire) and including Gov. Palin.

I may be wrong, but I do believe in a competitive primary process giving us the strongest candidate.

[Ingtar]

Hope you’re for a national DREAM Act, he supported one in Texas. Aug 27, 2007 - MEXICO CITY — Leading a large delegation of Texas executives trying to drum up business in Mexico, Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday criticized the U.S. Congress for failing to pass an immigration bill that would legalize millions of workers. “I don’t think this is that difficult an issue if Congress would have the maturity to sit down and really discuss it and cut out all the mean rhetoric,” Perry said...

Or Hate Crime legislation protecting homosexuals as a class from speech. He signed that in 2001 while he was not running. He seems to be a different critter on the campaign trail.

There is a lot there that I’ve seen that seems to disqualify him, even cases of allowing donors to influence his “fiscal conservatism”.

[Outlaw Woman]

Have faith FRiend. My mom & brother are "pacing" the floor over Gov Palin not announcing yet.

Things to consider: (just imho of course) First of all, this "poll", like all polls, should be taken with a grain of salt. Communist propaganda has infiltrated our media. These tactics are used to discourage, dispirit and demoralize...and to a degree, they are working. (Who the hell isn't sick and tired of the BS?)

Palin hasn't announced because the rule book she is following is from someone who was actually successful. She absolutely knows what is at stake for all of us. Further, Palin is allowing the 'fools' to burn themselves out early; I'm already fatigued from hearing about the candidates and want to retch every time I hear their names. (Exception: Governor Perry.) In other words Sarah Palin knows precisely what she is doing. Her strategy is completely reverse of all 'conventional wisdom'; which I might add has gotten this country into the situation it is in.

Question: Does anyone in their right mind really believe, after all the work, after all the placement of staff, after all the traveling, TV interviews, speeches etc., that Sarah Palin is not going to run? Come on. And once she throws her hat in the ring, this Nation is not going to know what hit it! She will appeal to all citizens and will win over even her most ardent enemies. I've watched and heard the woman speak! She is as savvy as they come and is planning this run down to the minute detail and that's what it is going to take. Because the other asses think they can just come out and say a few words to tickle everyone's ear and then they are set. The difference? Sarah Palin means what she says.

I apologize for the lengthy post and .... most probably won't read it, but just wanted to get that viewpoint out there (not the FReepers haven't already 'thought' these things). Let me just end this post by saying:

[Polybius]

In another sign that history may be repeating itself, Reagan wasn't considered a very good candidate in 1980, either.

Actually, Reagan was very experienced (8 years as Governor of California, 1976 - 1975) and very knowledgeable. .... And it showed.

From 1975 to 1979 Ronald Reagan gave more than 1,000 daily radio broadcasts, the great majority of which he wrote himself. .... These addresses .... revise our understanding of the late 1970s - a time when Reagan held no political office, but was nonetheless mapping out a strategy to transform the economy, end the Cold War, and create a vision of America that would propel him to the presidency. These radio programs demonstrate that Reagan had carefully considered nearly every issue he would face as president.

While the liberal media hated Reagan, the national voters loved him once they got to know him in 1980.

Once the voters were exposed to Reagan and got to know Reagan, they came over to him.

In February of 1980, Reagan started out with a Preferred rating of 31%. As the voters got to know him, that rose to 45% by mid July.

THAT is what Reagan did once he got into the spotlight.

In six months.

By contrast, Sarah Palin has already been in the spotlight for one month short of THREE years, from September 2008 to August 2011.

The problem with Palin is that, although she has been in the spotlight since the Fall of 2008 and although 95% of all the voters know her and have an opinion of her ...... her "Believe will be a good President" number has done nothing but go lower and lower and lower since 2008.

Since February, that number has changed only 3% in half a year ..... DOWNWARD ..... from 72% to 75% in the same FOX News Poll.

[LibLieSlayer]

Free Republic is overrun with party operatives that are sewing the seeds of doubt... we have those that are legitimately committed to certain candidates and they are doing what they think will best help their choice to win the nomination. Very few are professional and sometimes they promote their candidate in a way that actually hurts the choice that they have made.

The people that piss me off the most are those that are paid to come here to assassinate Cain, Palin or Bachmann... or even Ron Paul (who I do not support but I do support his being able to run).

You republican party hacks listen up... no I am not talking to you passionate FReepers that are fighting for what you believe is the good fight. I am talking to you slithering whores that sell your soul for political gain and power. I despise you and everything that you represent. I despise your party leadership... I despise the way your leadership lies to us... deceives us... looks down upon us and treats us as inferiors in every way... and they conspired in secret with this Republic's WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY... in shoving through a deal that is absolutely going to fail... in that we will ensure that we will endure higher taxes and that there will be no cuts that will amount to any real reduction in our debt or the terminal velocity at which we will eventually hit bottom.

The Tea Party is stronger than you and your rockfeller blue blood elite brethren... and we will eventually purge you and your ilk from the party and we will work to restore Washington DC into a Capitol that will be filled with citizen patriots and not political class royalty... who rule rather than govern. I despise you more than I do obama... and that is an extreme measure beyond comprehension.

LLS

[Outlaw Woman]

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Rick Perry is another RINO on many issues! His positives will rise? How is Rick Perry’s too weak on illegal immigration issues along with a, still, profoundly porous Texas/Mexico border positive for Rick Perry? Rick Perry agreed to the Dream Act in Texas! Amnesty for illegal immigrants will ruin the U.S., forever-No to Rick Perry for ‘12 POTUS and beyond! Rick Perry isn’t conservative enough on all issues.

[Polybius]

Bogus poll. First of all it’s over-sampled for Democrats. The GOP primary preferences are based on just over 300 voters.

The results, vis-a-vis Palin, are almost identical to the FOX News Poll of February. No matter what the poll, an excuse will be found by the Palin supporters to dismiss any data that interferes with their self-delusion.

Before it's release, it was predicted right here on FR that the Palin movie would rank right up there with Citizen Kane and Casablanca.

In the Real World, outside of the self-delusion of the Palin supporters, here is how "The Undefeated" actually fared:

Here's the reality: The Undefeated debuted to $65,132 at ten locations over the July 15-17 weekend. This past weekend, its release grew to 14 locations, but business plummeted 62 percent to $24,664, averaging $1,762 per site. That put its total at just $101,382 in ten days, which means it's sold an estimated 13,000 tickets. ... (Undefeated is not to be confused with Sarah's Key, a foreign language movie that opened to $115,708 at five locations this past weekend.) ... To put these numbers into further perspective: The Undefeated's ten theaters on opening weekend yielded 159 showings. Using the current average ticket price of $7.86, that means the movie played to an estimated 52 people per average showing or at about one-fifth to one-quarter capacity. In the movie's second weekend, which had 211 showings, the per-showing average attendance dropped to 15.

Such self-delusion is what brought us the Christine O'Donnell fiasco in 2010.

The stakes are much too high in 2012 to sacrifice America at the altar of the self-delusion of the Palin supporters.