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  • Sarah Palin: Still Not the Front-Runner (Then why are they writing about her?)

    09/22/2010 1:31:15 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 50 replies
    The New York Times ^ | September 22, 2010 | Ross Douthat
    Here are two more data points from the weekend to back up my argument that the 2012 Republican nomination is not Sarah Palin’s to lose. First, the Values Voter Summit straw poll, a decent gauge of sentiment among the kind of activists Palin would presumably need to rally, in which the former Alaska governor racked up just 7 percent of the vote, trailing Mike Pence (who gave a barn-burner of a speech), Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. Second, a new 2012 poll from Public Policy Polling, showing Romney leading with 22 percent, followed by Huckabee at 21, Gingrich...