Poll: Palin Top GOP Pick For 2012

A new Zogby poll shows that despite her divisiveness and the anger directed her way by Republican campaign aides after the election, Sarah Palin is still Republicans' preferred 2012 candidate:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the slight favorite of Republican voters as the best candidate the party could run for President in 2012. When all voters are asked that questions, Palin falls into a three-way tie with Mitt Romney and Bobby Jindal.

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Palin's strength is with all conservatives, conservative religious voters and gun owners. Among Republicans, she gets the support of 30% of Born-Again Christians, 32% of weekly churchgoers, 34% of National Rifle Association members, 28% of current gun owners and 29% of self-identified conservatives. More GOP support comes from 32% of blue collar workers, 30% who shop weekly at Wal-Mart, 28% of NASCAR fans and 25% of both those with children under 17 and those with family members in the military. She scores lower among GOP voters ages 18-29, with 15%.

Twenty-four percent of Republican respondents chose Palin, compared with eighteen percent for Romney and sixteen percent for Jindal. When all voters were polled, each candidate took about thirteen percent of respondents.

The poll also finds that Mike Huckabee will have a hard time beating Palin among the base:

Palin looks to be stealing Huckabee's thunder among Republican religious conservatives and working class voters. Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist minister, and his highest GOP totals still come from Born-Again Christians (15%) and weekly churchgoers (18%), but those numbers are about half of those drawn by Palin. Despite his populist economic message, he wins only 10% of blue collar Republicans.

Read the full results here.

Comments

[Snow97]

Fantastic. Bring it on, Palinistas. We thought you learned your lesson when you got spanked in the last election, but you apparently have not. So, please, let's have a serious discussion about who is best for a nation in crisis and (hopefully, by then) recovering from war and economic meltdown. Then we'll turn it over to your folksy prophet for some anti-intellectual mispronunciations and cue-card reading. Because, hey, politics can be SO important and serious -- why not inject some laughs into it, as well?

[indy girl]

A Democratic Prayer:

Dear God,
Please let Sarah Palin think that You are calling her to run for the GOP nomination in 2012.
Please please please please please please, pleeeeeeeease!

Amen!

[marketvolatility]

Why do you trust them?

http://theliepOlitic.com/

The Sarah Palin Lies & The Top Ten Stupidest Moments of Sarah Palin

[isis]

Republicans everywhere want to live on Animal farm.

[hortonhearsawho]

lol

[Blue in NH]

2012 headline: Elephant commits suicide

[hortonhearsawho]

Poll or Light Pole with the bulb burned out?

[AmyS43]

She needs to go home and do her job. Why would anyone want her to be in charge of this nation? She can't even tend to her own state. Her state is paying for her to do what??? If I were an Alaskan I would be very upset. This woman is a sick, twisted, and stale joke.

[Norge]

Fine, let her run and it will confirm 2 terms for Obama. Palin does not have the gray matter to work with so she is forgiven her ignorance.

[fifitrixiebelle]

http://www.palindeception.com/blog/

A little birdy told me that something is afoot here.

[NotInspiredbyFamousChefs]

Sarah Palin won't be a candidate for anything if this blog has the big news: http://www.palindeception.com/blog/ .

[Gasparilla]

I don't buy into every conspiracy theory, but something about that situation smells.

[Manx]

Sarah Palin, a national joke, is the favorite of Republicans. That says more about the Republican Party than it does about Sarah Palin. If that continues, the Republican Party will go the way of the Wig Party.

[Thad]

I love that, on the main page, the headline for this story is "Palin Still Republicans' Favorite Choice For 2012". Really? You mean people's opinions haven't changed significantly in the FOUR WEEKS since the election? Amazing!

[kenfromEugeneOregon]

What a gift to the Democrats! Go, Sarah! Her being put forward by the Republican Party to run in 2012 will just about guarantee its further sharp demise. Running Jindal, the intellectually-costumed version of Sarah, will produce a somewhat less dramatic version of that same demise. So, go Republicans. Ignore the thinking of the majority of U.S. voters and push your extremist right-wing ideas as hard as you can. You will without doubt be political gerbils running endlessly on the wheel to nowhere.

[Sparty1]

The low information voters that enjoy Gov. Palin won't even remember her in 2010, let alone 2012. And if they can drag her back onto the stage, she'll get torn to shreds again. Bring her on. I'll have my popcorn waiting.

[Ohsnap]

She scores lower among GOP voters ages 18-29, with 15%.
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Which means that the people with the raging hormones still have the sense to dislike Palin for all the right reasons.

No I am not so afraid for the future of our country.