"May we always be happy and our enemies know it!"
Contrary to what the MSM would have us believe, this election will be won and lost on the interwebs, moreso that even the 2008 fiasco, and on the net Sarah Palin is far and away the favored candidate. Facebook, Twitter, and the blogosphere are dominated by pro-Palin (and anti-Palin) discussions. Ten-to-one pro-Palin on the internet is actually an understatement, with regard to all the potential GOP candidates.
About 150 million people in the USA are using Facebook on a daily basis. On Twitter, you can do a search on "Rick Perry" and most of the Tweets are from pro-Palin entities, or are about "Rick who?".
All the media hype is just that -- hype, and that includes the establishment GOP pundits on Fox. All the MSM news outlets combined do not, and cannot, get 150 million viewers per day. Palin will never get the hard-core left-wing liberals, but neither will any other GOP candidate.
As for these bizarro polls showing whatever, I don't know where they are getting their samples, but they aren't from mainstreet America.
The RNC is flat broke, less than $One Million in cash, and more than $24 Million in debt. A major party should have more than $One Billion in cash at this point in an election cycle. It is costing the RNC sixty cents for every dollar they are raising, and hardly anyone is donating to the RNC. Bad, bad news for the establishment. Grassroots people are not giving up the money for the machine.
All the establishment flavor-of-the-week candidates are all competing for a nonexistent supply of establishment cash.
The Sarah Palin machine is working, without any real expenditures), and all the money all the grassroots are sitting on is still sitting there, awaiting her announcement, whenever that will be.