Posted on 08/26/2011 10:21:29 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
There is some evidence that while waiting for a potential Sarah Palin presidential run, her potential voters have moved on and now support other tea party-backed candidates, such as Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann.
Has Sarah Palin waited too long to announce she’s running for president?
(...) So if she does throw her snow machine helmet into the ring, she might start a White House race closer to the back of the pack than the front.
First, let’s address the waiting part. The former Alaska governor on Tuesday denied that she intends to announce a White House bid on September 3, (...)
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Palin might use the September 3 address to endorse another candidate. She might use it to make it clear she will announce at some point – Governor Perry used that same sort of slow-unveiling strategy as he edged into the race.
But the problem is at this point she may be exhausting the patience of potential Palinites.
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“I think Palin could get back a number of voters should she get into the race – people who gave up on her running and moved on to someone else. But, I do not think it would put her in a strong enough position to get into first or second place,” writes Erickson.
Some other analysts are less negative. In an opinion piece for CNN, political scientist Paul Sracic of Youngstown State University in Ohio writes that Palin’s on-camera optimism about America seems natural and akin to that of GOP icon Ronald Reagan.
“This offers at least the possibility that, despite her current low standing in the polls, she will be able to leap-frog over the more negative sounding Bachmann and Perry, and compete head-to-head with Romney,” writes Sracic.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Freudian slip?
“I think her strategy backfired, big time. Especially with Perry entering the race.”
LMAO
LOL, good catch! That’s what I get for not previewing my post!
Cindie
So you’re saying that Governor Sarah, having just made herself “answerable to the people” found herself almost instantly checkmated into resignation?
Perhaps you’d like, in your phrase that I quoted, to substitute in the words “vulnerable” and “opposition”.
......more like our Creator given rights and liberties. I worship Him and thank Him for giving America a God fearing, honest politician when we need one.......Sarah Palin.
As for public and business background, she excells every candidate - from the neoconservative lying GOP Global CFR Rino establishment to the anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-small business commie sitting in our WH ( when he's not blowing our money on jet fuel ).
'Floppy',
Be advised : You've lost your seat at the adult table.
Are you saying that it's the fault of an honest politician that liberals misuse laws?
Not exactly.
Guess I’m saying that smarter politicians might not “champion” and sign such naive, easily-abused, obviously-unintended-consequences-bearing legislation into law.
LMAO ….. SarahPalinForPresident2012
If anything, Perry, with his large leads in Republican polls, makes it “safer” for Palin to run in the Republican primary because it would not risk the nightmare scenario of Palin running, conservatives nominating her as the preferable of two weak conservative hopes (Bachmann being the other) and then having Obama reelected in a crushing landslide. Such a nightmare scenario would finish destroying America as we have known it and would destroy whatever standing Sarah Palin has.
Palin’s reluctance to risk a run is based on cold, hard data. (See poll data below.) She’s a smart lady and a patriotic lady and she would never risk the continued destruction of America by helping get Obama easily reelected.
In the February 2011 FOX News Poll, 72% of all voters believed that Sarah Palin would NOT be a good President. Result: Landslide general election victory for Obama.
In the August 2011 FOX News Poll, 75% of all voters believed that Sarah Palin would NOT be a good President. Result: Landslide general election victory for Obama.
The Rasmussen Poll tends to have Republicans score better than they actually perform in the elections. In this week’s Rasmussen Poll, Obama absolutely slaughters Sarah Palin, 50% to 33%.. Result: Landslide general election victory for Obama.
Rasmussen Poll: Obama Does Best Against Palin, 50% to 33%
Over the past three years, Sarah Palin has had more news coverage than any other politician besides Barack Obama and, in the August 2011 FOX News Poll, her name recognition was 99%. That means that opinions about her solidified long ago and there is little room for change. With all the Sarah Palin news coverage over the summer, the only change between the February FOX News Poll and the August 2011 FOX News Poll is that the “do NOT believe she would be a good President” changed from 72% to 75%.
It would behoove some Palin supporters to spend less time “LMAO” and more time examining the cold, hard data that Sarah Palin herself is apparently heeding.
Public polls are not elections. Palin polled poorly just before she won the Governorship. She has said she doesn't pay attention to polls. They lie.
Gullibility.
Hoping for the best without expecting the worst.
Etc.
It’s already been posted, I believe on this thread, that an attorney drew up the law. No one caught any flaws until the left found a way to use it. You blame HER because no else caught it? Wow.
She signed it. Where’s the buck stop in Alaska? Wow!
From the movie “The Right Stuff”, re: Sputnik “Are their Germans smarter than our Germans?” Are Demo Alaskans just smarter than Repub Alaskans? If so, I don’t want no Repub Alaskans getting promoted down in the lower 48.
The left holds the franchise on ambulance chasers, and they use them relentlessly to get what they want. The were going to litigate her to complete job dysfunction and/or bankruptcy. When you add the unprecedented daily vicious multi-media attacks on her children, it was time to step back and regroup.
What happened to her set a whole new standard for political attacks. It went far beyond policy disagreements. The left hated everything she represented, and wanted nothing less than the complete public humiliation of every member of her family. I don't think her kids were prepared for the type of hate that only the left can muster. And it was only going to get worse. They weren't going to be happy until Todd shot a lefty-inspired stalker climbing over their fence. (Having a hostile author rent the house next door that has a view of your back yard?)
W grew up in a political family, spent time in DC working for his father's campaign, was a governor, but even he was unprepared for the level of vitriol he faced when he became president.
Had she not resigned, it would have been a self-serving act, and not in the best interest of the people that voted her into office, or her family. She did the right thing for the right reasons.
No, polls are not elections but, for a well known candidate, they are extremely good predictors of the coming election.
In 2008, Christine O'Donnell ran for a Delaware U.S. Senate seat and was slaughtered.
In 2010, the polls predicted that, if she ran for a Delaware U.S. Senate seat again, Christine O'Donnell would get slaughtered again. But, the True Believers like you cried, "Public polls are not elections" and the suicidal Banzai Charge went forward.
Result: Christine O'Donnell was slaughtered again, exactly as the polls predicted, and a self-proclaimed "bearded Marxist" in college is now a U.S. Senator from Delaware.
Now, to quote Yogi Berra, "It's deja vu all over again" .... "Public polls are not elections! Let's try that suicidal Banzai Charge one more time!"
Polls are the most inaccurate when there is a new candidate or when a candidate is not all that well known. A new candidate or relatively unknown candidate is like an unknown NFL bench-warmer: One week, Tom Brady is a 6th round draft pick bench-warmer who everybody has a low opinion of and then, 6 weeks after the starting QB gets injured, Tom Brady is the greatest thing since Dan Marino.
Thus, Sarah Palin's low polling at the start in the Governor's race. Thus Ronald Reagan's low polling at the start of the 1980 race.
The thing about the unknown QB coming into the game is that the large swing in opinion is possible only while he is still unknown and can turn out to be either Dan Marino or Bryan Leaf.
The problem with Sarah Palin is that, currently, she is NOT an unknown. She has been in America's face for three entire years. She has 99% name recognition in the August 2011 FOX News Poll. The only people in America that are not familiar with Sarah Palin live under a rock. The opinions about Sarah Palin have solidified: In the February FOX News poll, 72% thought that she would NOT be a good President and, 6 months later, after a summer of blanket news coverage, in the August FOX News poll, 75% thought that she would NOT be a good President.
That is the reality of polls.
Sarah Palin has become the Nancy Pelosi of the GOP: Wildly popular among her own base and extremely unpopular outside of her own base. .... Even among Republicans.
True Believers like you took a suicidal risk in the Delaware Senate race, when polls warned you it was suicidal, and you turned a U.S. Senate seat over to a Marxist.
Now, True Believers like you want to take another suicidal risk, when polls are warning that it is suicidal, when the stakes are the continued destruction of America by a Marxist President.
I'm sorry, but I am not willing to kill the America so many have fought for an irrational adoration of a politician.
Your problem is that you want to blame her so you can denigrate her. And you will go to any lengths to do it. Including criticism for not being a better attorney than the attorneys.
My point stands. Palin lost every poll just before she won the Governorship. You can't compare Palin to any other public office holder or candidate. Her situation is unique.
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