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Current standings: PALIN 45.69% PERRY 39.17% BACHMANN 5.25% ROMNEY 3.05% CAIN 2.66% PAWLENTY 1.92% JOHNSON 1.26% SANTORUM 0.58% HUNTSMAN 0.28% GINGRICH 0.16% 9556 VOTES CAST SO FAR

Current standings; PERRY 46% PALIN 16% BACHMANN 8% ROMNEY 6% PRESENT 5% CAIN 4% MCCOTTER 4% PAUL 4% PAWLENTY 4% HUNTSMAN 1% GINGRICH 0% 3697 VOTES SO FAR

Poll results so far: PALIN 40.92% CAIN 22.77% PERRY 20.31% BACHMANN 8.31% ROMNEY 2.46% SANTORUM 2.46% BOLTON 1.23% GIULIANI 0.62% GINGRICH 0.31% MCCOTTER 0.31% PAWLENTY 0.31% HUNTSMAN 0%

I have been complaining the last couple of weeks that MSM pollsters have been not including Sarah Palin in the mix thereby inflating Mitt Romney's national poll numbers as well as those of Michele Bachmann. Based on this ABC/WAPO poll of the GOP presidential contenders released today I was mostly wrong about Romney but right on Bachmann. This poll was conducted only of GOP primary voters including Republicans and independents who lean to the GOP between July 14-17 before word got out about Bachmann's migraine headaches. First let me summarize the poll results: ROMNEY--------------26% (21) PALIN---------------18% (17) BACHMANN------------12% (3) PAUL-----------------9%...

Many folks who do NOT support Sarah Palin may wonder in silence or aloud what constitutes a Palinista or why one become a Palinista. I am going to tell you why I am Sarah Palin supporter. And many of these reasons are NOT the usual reasons you might hear. In addition I am going to provide you the reasons that did NOT lead me in the direction of becoming a Palinista. Here are 10 reasons I support her: 1)It will take a political aggressive superstar to knock off Obama in 2012; mediocre milquetoast will NOT cut it while Obama demagogs...

I last posted 10 statistical reasons why Sarah Palin is a good match for President Obama and why the 2012 election will be close if Palin is the GOP nominee. Well to prove I am not a one-trick pony I am going to wade again into the area of "considered opinion" rather than statistics to make the case that President Obama does NOT want to go head to head with Sarah Palin in the 2012 election and could perhaps lose a close election. Here are 26 reasons why President Obama does NOT want to face Sarah Palin in 2012: 1)It...

It has been almost three years since I, along with many others, was introduced to Governor Sarah Palin. In that time we have been saturated with coverage of her and just about everybody on the left and the right, has had the opportunity to get to know who she is and what they think of her. At least that's what I thought.

Awhile back I posted at Free Republic 50 reasons why I believe Sarah Palin would run for President based on Palin's personal attributes and my reading of the tea leaves for the past three years. I have also soaked up every meme thrown at her by her enemies and every opinion written about her favorable and unfavorable. In other words I have pretty well seen it all and I fully understand the arguments folks have made to claim Sarah Palin should NOT run for President, is not qualified for the job and simply is not viable or not electable in...

The movie Casablanca (1942) is considered by many movie critics and buffs as the greatest movie of all time. I agree and I also believe the movie applies as well to the life, fate and destiny of Sarah Palin as well. Here are 13 reasons why I believe so: 1)The main protagonist Rick Blaine has clearly "gone rogue" and has a certain elan. Although he is initially cynical and clearly not as patriotic as Sarah Palin, he will eventually by the end of the movie show his true colors and that is is as dedicated to the cause, patriotic and...

Today is the two year anniversary of Sarah Palin resigning from being Governor of Alaska. In the light of that resignation here is a piece written before the midterm election which highlights the impact that resignation had on the election and the future of the Republican party. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2590825/posts

Yesterday, I got a chance to view the advance screening of Stephen K. Bannon's new movie about Sarah Palin at the AMC theater in Highlands Ranch. Of course, this is the umpteenth review of the movie, so even die hard Undefeated-review-readers are likely to tire of reading yet another one. And the "I-won't-review-the-movie-because-others-have-done-so-ad-nauseam-so-here-are-my-unique-thoughts" meme is wearing out too. But gosh dang it, this movie is worthy of being reviewed and I'm not going to give up my chance to do it just because a handful of big wig conservatives and snotty first-in-the-nation Iowans (I kid, half my family is from...

A couple of days ago Marist-McClatchey released a ridiculous head to head poll between President Obama and Sarah Palin showing Obama beating Palin 56% to 30% in the 2012 general election, which if true could precipitate a landslide of Goldwater proportions reminiscent of the LBJ victory in 1964. Of course this is the purpose of the poll result to scare GOP primary voters into not voting for Palin and to instead vote Mitt Romney or a conservative alternative. In terms of demographics, Obama gets 22% of the GOP vote with only 66% going to Palin. Obama gets 36% of the...

Ace of Spades 2012 GOP presidential straw poll now up: Current standings: Perry 931 Palin 637 Bachmann 528 Cain 235 Pawlenty 123 Romney 105 Johnson 36 Santorum 24 Huntsman 8 Gingrich 5 2632 votes so far

Yesterday I projected ahead why I felt Mitt Romney would lose in a close election to President Obama. The three main factors that led me to my conclusion were: 1)Not being able to personally maximize the turnout of WHITE conservative/evangelical voters or motivate them to come out and support him 2)Not holding Obama to 13% of the conservative vote (what the Democrats got in the 2010 midterms) and/or facilitating the establishment of a 3rd party to bleed conservative votes away from him 3)Not being able to win the white working class vote by 30 points as the GOP did in...

Right after the 2010 midterm election, political and polling analyst guru Jay Cost projected ahead to 2012 and determined from the elections in this century and the current polarization of the electorate that regardless of who the GOP nominated that Obama would garner 45%-55% of the popular vote in 2012 while the GOP nominee had the same opportunity to do so. And he then speculated that roughly 5-8% of the electorate was up for grabs and whoever was most successful in winning these votes would win the election. Imho, President Obama, certain to be the Democratic nominee, and based on...

As many of you folks know, last week Rasmussen conducted a national poll of the GOP presidential contenders and did not include Sarah Palin in the mix. On the surface it appears that Rasmussen is not out to do Sarah Palin any political favors or might even be part of the conspiracy to sabotage her chances to win the GOP nomination next year. Thus I think it is ironic that I may have discovered by means of another Rasmussen poll conducted last week how Scott Rasmussen may have become an unwittingly participant in providing Palin a terrific springboard to ultimate...

A total of 42% of Americans say they approve of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president and 52% say they disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job according to the latest survey from the American Research Group. In May, 49% of Americans approved of the job Obama as doing and 47% disapproved. ...Among Republicans...7% approve of the way Obama is handling his job and 90% disapprove. Among Democrats...83% approve and 13% disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job. Among independents...34% approve and 57% disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job...

In several threads recently at FR I have focused on the proposition that only the future candidacy of Sarah Palin has the potential to possibly derail Mitt Romney as he mounts a relentless campaign to win the GOP nomination next year and that indeed a Romney-Palin showdown is really inevitable. Now I would like to address why I believe it is in the best interest of Sarah Palin, Palinistas, conservatives, evangelicals, and Tea Party supporters to make that argument much sooner in the GOP primary process than it would be later in the process or not at all. Here are...

Yesterday I wrote a post based on the premise that the media is deliberately avoiding any mention of the potential showdown between Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin in the GOP presidential race to determine who will win the GOP nomination next year and then attempted to provide mounting evidence that this was indeed the case, and in addition why the showdown is inevitable. The potential of anybody in the field to win the nomination is NO longer a valid premise. The departure of Mike Huckabee from the presidential playing field on the evening of May 14th, 2011 on his weekly...