rssRasmussen Poll: 21 Percent of Voters Want Palin to Run as an Independent
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 11:27 am
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Rasmussen Reports has an already-Drudged poll on the 2012 presidential election, which finds former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) tying Barack Obama and soon-to-be former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) only trailing by 6 points.
I doubt you could find a Democratic consultant not named Doug Schoen who takes this serious, especially the high seven percent “some other candidate” number; Rasmussen has been showing Obama in the dumps for months. But the rest of the poll has got to be headache-inducing for Sarah Palin skeptics.
If Sarah Palin loses the Republican nomination should she run for President as an independent candidate?
Yes – 21 percent
No – 63 percentIn thinking about the 2012 Election for President of the United States, suppose you had a choice between Republican Mitt Romney, Democrat Barack Obama and Independent Sarah Palin. If the election were held today would you vote for Republican Mitt Romney, Democrat Barack Obama or Independent Sarah Palin?
If Sarah Palin loses the Republican nomination should she run for President as an independent candidate?
Barack Obama – 44 percent
Mitt Romney – 33 percent
Sarah Palin – 16 percent
Two things. First, Obama remains around 45 percent no matter who else is in the race; even in Rasmussen’s relentlessly gloomy (for Democrats) polls, that suggests an unassailable base of non-white voters and liberal whites. Second, if 21 percent of all voters would want to see Palin run as an independent, how many Republicans would want to see that? How many of them are still sick at their party or the possibility of a Romney nomination?
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Comment posted July 22, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
Rasmussen and Pew are the two best in the business. They sample LVs, which are all that matters. Others samples RVs, adults, or just don't do it right. Look at the results from 2008. Their numbers do not lie.
Comment posted July 27, 2009 @ 7:10 pm
The real delemna for the republicans is that if they can't come together and anyone, particularly Gov Palin, were to run as a 3rd party candidate then Obama wins. Everything that the Obama administration is doing right now (stimulus, cap and trade, Gov't health care, huge deficit and lame foreign policy) would make it easy for a republican to beat Obama in 2012. If the Obama plan holds up, the U.S. will be the 2nd worst, if the not the worst, country for companies to locate in. Jobs, prosperity, energy independence down the drain.
This would suggest that the repubs should regain control in the congress if people perceive it this way. Given the disaster of the dem party take all situation that we currently have in place, the voters, if they put the republicans in control in the congress, may not want to also put them in the WH and have another case of one party controlling both the congress and the White House.
Comment posted August 5, 2009 @ 6:13 pm
I'm tired of plaid pants country-club republicans and New England RINOs as well. I'd take Sarah Palin over any of them. She's got the best moral compass and enormous common sense. I don't care if she never reads any magazines. I can't blame her for that. There's not much to any of them anyway.
Comment posted August 10, 2009 @ 8:40 am
Haha! Yes, run Sarah run! I really LMAO the last time you were running with bomb bomb bomb McCain and I would love to experience nothing more than another few months of laughter and the splitting up of the GOP at the same time. Oh my, that would ge a dream come true. Run Sarah, run!
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