Run Sarah, run!
Posted on 09/12/2011 8:15:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
To be fair, that headline may be a little misleading. The latest CNN poll did find Michele Bachmann at 4 percent, trailing both Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich, but that’s only when Sarah Palin is included in the race. When Palin’s excluded from the lineup, Bachmann ties Gingrich at 7 percent, and beats Cain by one point. Still, she’s dropped 5 percent since late August, a troubling trend for her campaign.
The poll, which was taken after the GOP debate last week, shows Perry and Romney are both holding their grounds. In the non-Palin lineup (a.k.a. the more likely scenario), Perry’s still at 32 percent, unchanged since late August, suggesting that the momentum he came into the race with may be waning. Romney is now at 21 percent, a 3-point increase since late August. And Ron Paul shot up to 13 percent, a 7-point bump since the last poll. He’s now knocked Bachmann out of the #3 slot.
Bachmann has made a comeback before, and she can still regain the ground she’s lost. It largely depends on her performance at tonight’s debate. She’s a skilled debater, so her challenge tonight will be to get as much speaking time as possible. The reason the last debate went poorly for her was because she wasn’t given many opportunities to talk.
As for Romney and Perry, one of them needs to have a breakout performance tonight. That their numbers have remained unchanged since August shows they haven’t been able to pull additional support away from the also-ran candidates, despite the fact they’ve been receiving the most attention.
Who is moderating tonight? Krugman? Ed Schultz? Chris Matthews?
Kidding, but not much.
Probably Cindy Sheehan, Keith Olbermann and Cynthia McKinney...
Run Sarah, run!
LOL!
I’m no professional pollster, but doesn’t it seem that Gov. Palin is doing pretty well in there, without declaring her candidacy and taking into account the ceaseless attacks on her for the last three years?
I’m no pollster either so any comment I made is speculation on my part.
It is true that Gov. Palin has a very strong support base that hasn’t abandoned her at this juncture in the primary season. Outside of those it becomes how well she could attract cross over voters from the other candidates, indepentents, non committed, etc. That said the same applies to all the others who are announced and are in the race.
Polls sometimes can only give a generalization of the status at any one time. In the 2008 primary season at this juncture Guiliani was leading and did so up until Huckabee wiped him out in Iowa. So things aren’t in concrete just yet. However I do think Gov. Palin has to get moving if she really intends to get into the fray. JMO.
Wolf Blitzer is moderator, with most questions coming from leaders of various Tea Party from across the country.
Wolf Blitzer is moderator, with most questions coming from leaders of various Tea Party groups from across the country.
Olbermann perhaps, Van Jones maybe?
If this poll is accurate (a BIG IF) then why the hell wouldn’t Palin run? If I could come in 3rd and be in the top tier I would too! Especially so for a woman. What woman wouldn’t want to be the first female nominee of either party in American history? Hands ladies?
Sorry, I liked Bachman and supported her last fall in her run for congress.
But she never had a chance to get nominated as POTUS. And meantime, she’s been neglected her real job, which she was elected for—to hold the leadership in congress liable for that conservative wave last November—which they’ve been simply ignoring.
Who’s leading the new Tea Party members of congress? Evidently not Bachman, who would have been the natural person to take up that post and gain more recognition for actually accomplishing something.
Yes, she has voted for this and that, but one vote doesn’t make that much difference if you spend most of your time fundraising and giving speeches that people are paying less and less attention to.
If she didn’t intend to do her job in congress at this critical time for our country, she shouldn’t have run again.
She's not IN the room. When she gets in, we can talk about her.
I think she is doing conservatives a great disservice by not declaring her intentions, one way or the other.
Not so much, considering that she has been campaigning non-stop for the last three years despite the fact that she has not declared. If she were like Perry before he announced, with low name recognition and having previously declared that he was not interested in running, then that number would probably be impressive. But Sarah has almost 100% name recognition, and most people know she wants to run, whether or not she actually does. So the "isn't she doing so well for an undeclared candidate?" meme doesn't really apply.
I’ve been thinking the same thing, Cicero.
Does anyone “really” take a CNN poll seriously?
Another question, why are the debates only being held on far left tv channels? For myself, I don’t get CNN since it is a extra pay channel.
God Bless America!
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