Early Presidential Candidate Polls are historically meaningless on both sides of the political spectrum.......that’s why I don’t engage in FR threads on polling data about 2012, it’s pure fodder!
If it was worth something then Giuliani needs an apology since he was the man to beat going into 2008 according to polls....Paul Tsongas supposly was the man for 1992 for the Dems and Bill Clinton was running in the middle of the pack and many saw him more as a VP choice because he was from the south.
I guess too many FReepers are too young to remember that many polls in 1979 had some Republicans wanting Gerald Ford to face Jimmy Carter “again” for the 1980 elections, they bought the notion that Reagan was crazy, dumb and couldn’t win like the MSM and the Dems were saying back then....heck, some poll had Reagan even losing his own state California Primary!
BTW No independent voter on the average has made up their minds this early on Sarah or any other potential candidate, if the media says that, take it as a lie. Yes, right now some may not think much of Sarah but she nor any other candidate has made it official in running ( that matters alot) or especially for Sarah, she has never ran for President, no undecided voter has no clue what Palin campaign or message or plans to get us out of this mess IS! Two years from now they can be shaking their heads in agreement on what she says compared to Obama in the debates and some poll back in December of 2010 would be forgotten and utterly meaningless.....it happens all the time
Another blast from the past, Sept. 14, 1979 Field poll in Reagan's own state of California:
"When matched in a trial heat against the leading GOP presidential contender Ronald Reagan, [Ted] Kennedy has a 29 point bulge over the former Governor (63% to 34%) among potential California voters."
In the same California poll Reagan had a 1 point lead over Carter 48-47.
In looking back at that period, I sometimes think we're in a time warp...LOL.