Posted on 09/27/2009 5:27:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Head-to-head with Obama, she’s steady from last month: He led her 52/38 in August and leads 53/38 now. But her favorables are in the toilet, dropping from 47/45 in July to 40/49 in August to … 37/55. The positive spin for Palin fans, I guess, is that the less the public sees of her, the worse she seems to do, which turns the conventional media wisdom on its head. Now that she’s reemerged to hit the lecture circuit, it’ll be interesting to see if she spikes up in October.
Another ominous trend: Her favorability among Republicans was higher last month than Huckabee’s even though he fared better against Obama overall (this month he trails by seven points after trailing in August by just three), but now he’s nudged past her even within the party.
He beats her among Republicans even in a hypothetical contest against Obama, winning 77 percent and losing just 13 while Palin tops out at 70 percent and loses 18. Even when you break it out by ideology, expecting the ‘Cuda to win big among conservatives, it’s a statistical wash:
Exit question: Where’s all the GOP Huck love coming from? Does he have that many fans of his Fox show? Or is he just drawing good vibes as the funny, genial southern guy, in contrast to the more polarizing personas of Palin and Romney?
Both you and breto make good points. I certainly am looking at her as our last and only hope and will be supporting her as much as I can. I’ve already sent some money to her PAC. I don’t see who else is out there. There are a few good conservatives in congress but none really conceivable as President. We only have Sarah. It is her time to shine.
The only polls that mean anything right now are the ones for gov. in New Jersey and Virginia., I think the GOP will win back Virginia although I am skeptical about NJ.
Everyone, I have made this comment before, but please notice something in the picture. Sarah is not wearing her “Blue Star Mom” pin she ALWAYS wears.........
That means Track is home safe. Thank God.............
48% of Americans still approve of Obama after all his lying, destructive, dissembling, anti-American actions so far...
These decrease in Obama’s poll numbers from “strongly approve” to mere “approval” have been due to Obama not giving these gimme-gimme Americans enough freebies.
These people are liberty and freedom zombies. They are not redeemable. They will never wake up one day and embrace hard work and self reliance. They are the looters of America’s core. They cannot be reformed.
A disaster looms if we continue to kid ourselves that the Reagan Coalition is out there latent, just waiting for a leader to be reborn.
They are no longer out there, no more than Pickett’s brigade is still waiting for another chance to regroup.
We are a permanent minority, and if we don’t figure out how to operate like that then we won’t be able to save any part of America.
Over 30 years ago we voted for the worst president in our history.
Each generation has to get a much needed kick in the head to remind them of what is at stake.
Our kick in the head will happen under Obama. Only then will we truly understand that Sarah's Reaganesque "common sense conservatism" is the anecdote to our collective headache.
Sarah's biggest challenge is getting thru the primaries. Once that is achieved she will win in a landslide.
Obama is this generation's Jimmy Carter on steroids.
I hope I am wrong but lets face it, the majority of the voting population isn’t conservative, lean right yes but conservative no. The pounding she took as a VP candidate is nothing she would receive at at the top of ticket and when you are spending all of your time defending instead of attacking is lost time. She will have a hard time explaining why she cut and ran from the governors office and “they were picking on me” won’t cut it. I stand by my post. A spokesman yes, top of the ticket - she won’t make it.
>> You know the republican left and the state run media along with hollywood did a lot of damage to her. However I think she may have enough Rocky Balboa in her to fight all the way back.
True.
She has a very gentle and kind disposition - a flattering characteristic in my book. The elites, however, took advantage of it.
I hope her training program is equipped with nail sharpeners.
The Reagan coalition was demolished by RINO, internationalist “free-trade” sellouts.
The Reagan coalition was built on the patriotism and centrist power of Reagan Democrats. Anti-gay. Pro-2A. Flag-waving SOBs every one.
For some reason, a lot of “free traders” decided it was good politics to send all those Reagan Democrats’ jobs to a massive militaristic communist nation, leaving those Reagan Democrats bitter, out of work and dependent upon government.
There has never, in American history, been a bigger catastropic political blunder than conservatives wrong-headed embrace of “free trade”.
It has cost the GOP everything, it is destroying America, and it seems to have an almost cult-like hold on otherwise sensible patriotic American conservatives.
Take a look sometime at brain-washed Obama people at a rally.
Take a good look.
That’s what “free traders” are like.
Except unlike those pod people supporting Obama, the “free trade” people are costing their own party, its soul.
“The Reagan coalition was demolished by .....”
The important thing is they’re all gone. And they’re not coming back.
Ronald Reagan himself would’ve been destroyed in a landslide in 2008.
Hell, Carter smoked Reagan in a poll taken in September 1980!
Look, all you poll fans - there's a reason we have a campaign followed by an election. Most people don't give a hoot in hell about any of these creeps until a few weeks before they have to make up their minds.
Duncan Hunter would have defeated Obama handily.
No contest.
It was the GOP itself, which prevented that from happening. And now they’re after Palin...
RINO “free traders”.
It is time to remove them from the party. They are no longer on our side.
Hunter couldn’t even beat that lying sack of crap Huck. Hunter would’ve been manhandled by HopeyChange.
People wanted the skinny peace and love black guy, not another keep-America-strong, fight the muslims, take your medicine America fat white guy.
What a waste of money this poll was.
Would a pollster please ask a question I've been dying to have asked of a good sample of Americans..."Did the election of Barack Obama improve race relations in the US?"
The only reason Huck got the jump on Hunter was the (for God knows why) Chuck Norris endorsement of Huck.
Chuck screwed up. He endorsed the wrong guy!! Epic goof.
Norris really, really blew it. Couldn’t have been worse.
Chuck Norris could make it up to America by getting behind Palin early, and strong. Even right now would be good, since he’s been in the news this week.
Let the campaigning begin.
Obama’s in campaign mode. Why aren’t Republicans?...
It’s not like, they’ve got too much to do.
If Hunter was sunk by a single endorsement, then, uh....Obama would've turned him into conservative puree.
Sarah has a lot of support among the hard-core Republican/conservative "base", less so among people who get their news from the media.
I think her best move right now is to be a force to rouse the base, to identify good people to back in the 2010 primaries, and to use her support of the base to gain power over the RNC.
The primaries are key, as are the governor (and other statewide) races between now and 2012. We need as many people as possible holding Gov, AG, and SecState positions by 2012, to have a better chance of holding down vote fraud.
Carter would have smoked Reagan if the election had come a month earlier. This kind of poll is simply a substitute for news--and a manufactured chance to disparage the indomitable Sarah.
Hunter would be President right now, if the 2008 race were Duncan Hunter vs Hussein Obama.
THAT would have been a clear choice.
What we had instead was one clearly positioned, strongly supported candidate on one side. “Opposed” by an uninspiring shadow of a candidate, holding most of the same postitions the other guy did - who seemed more concerned with convincing voters the other guy was not so bad, than with actually WINNING.
To this day I’m not even sure McCain didn’t lose on purpose.
He’s like the Stockholm syndrome Senator.
How come he’s only a “maverick” toward his own party??
With Duncan Hunter there would have been no such ambiguity.
It would have been America on one column. Metrosexuality on the other.
America would have won.
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