rssPoll: 53 Percent Would ‘Definitely Not’ Vote for Sarah Palin
Monday, November 16, 2009 at 11:20 am
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The new Washington Post-ABC News poll sneaks a little bit of reality into the maelstrom of Sarah Palin news. Fifty-three percent of Americans would “definitely not” vote for Palin in a hypothetical 2012 presidential race. For comparison, when the Post asked this question about then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in 2006, only 42 percent said they’d definitely vote against her. Palin’s solid support — those who’d “definitely vote for” her — is 9 percent, about half of Clinton’s in 2006.
It’s one poll, but it’s only the latest to portray Palin as an unpopular — forget “divisive” — figure whose weakness with the general electorate has no bearing with her popularity among Republicans. And it cuts against the surreal arguments that Palin is in a good position to rebuild an image that was positive for, at most, about four weeks in 2008. Clinton’s 42 percent “definitely not” number was the kind of thing that encouraged Democrats like Barack Obama and John Edwards into the race against her. Palin’s 53 percent is just brutal.
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9 Comments
Comment posted November 16, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
That means almost half this country might vote for her and that's scary – not to mention depressing.
Comment posted November 16, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
The problem for the Republicans is that they have about 20 percent of the voters. Assuming there aren't many Democrats or independents who are “definitely” for Sarah Palin, she may have a very solid percentage of Republican voters (40-45%) at the outset of the 2012 primaries. Even if she is incapable of winning the general election, she could be formidable in the primaries because she has the “crazy base” of the Republican Party sewn up.
Comment posted November 16, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
What are you talking about?
Any vote for Sarah Palin is a wasted vote and a vote that would have gone to an actually electable Reich-wing Repubitug.
But I doubt she'd run for anything, she's a quitter.
She's in it for the $$$ now. Rupert Murdock is giving her wingnut welfare with HarperCollins (a Murdock property) and her numerous Fox News/ GOP TV (also a Murdock property) appearances.
Comment posted November 16, 2009 @ 6:54 pm
I was wrong about this woman. She IS a politician. She has no ethical center, is vain, shirks or outright runs from responsibility (one wonders if she REALLY takes care of her kids, or her kids take care of themselves), and LOVES money. She also lies with the best of them.
She still won't amount to much in 2010 OR 2012 OR any other time. If, in this day and age, all you can muster is beatnik nonsense no one understands, forget public office.
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 11:57 pm
Palin will get eaten alive by her own party in the primary debates…Obama would annihilate this woman in a debate. I could care less about this and I wish people would concentrate on NOW. We have many challenges NOW. Eff Sarah Palin
Comment posted December 9, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
The fact that ANYONE would consider her to be a SERIOUS contender for the office of President of the USA, aka Most Powerful Person In The World, is extremely depressing . . .
Comment posted December 9, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
The fact that ANYONE would consider her to be a SERIOUS contender for the office of President of the USA, aka Most Powerful Person In The World, is extremely depressing . . .
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