Romney For President, But Palin More Popular: Poll

Republicans would like to see Mitt Romney run for president again in 2012, a new poll suggests.

The Gallup poll, released on Wednesday, asked Republicans and Republican-leaning independents to chose between six possible candidates for the 2012 Republican nomination.

Romney, who was a front-runner for the 2008 nomination, came out on top with 26 percent of respondents. That gives the former Massachusetts Governor a slight advantage over Sarah Palin, who was chosen by 21 percent of the survey voters.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich got 19 percent and 14 percent respectively, while much smaller numbers said they would support Governors Tim Pawlenty (Minn.) and Haley Barbour (Miss.)

While the survey results show that Romney is the preferred presidential candidate, Palin is the most popular of the leading GOP candidates.

Seventy-two percent of those surveyed had a favorable opinion of Palin, compared with 56 percent for Romney and 59 percent for Huckabee.

Among all Americans, however, Palin receives the highest negative rating. Although Romney, Huckabee and Palin each receive a similar favorable rating from the general public, Palin's 45 percent unfavorable rating far outdoes Romney's 29 percent and Huckabee's 23 percent.

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[QuietLightTraveler]

Any party where Palin is popular cannot have credibility in my eyes. Cmon GOP bring her on. It's the kiss of death to have the tundra queen on your side.

[mitsie]

Even her supports know she's not capable of being President. There are many voters who won't vote for Romney because he is a Mormon, others because he was more of a liberal then switched to a conservative stance, both sides were because of his running for public office.

[carminedesapio]

The economy wont come around.It will get much worse. You will see double digit unemplyment, inflation and interest rates. Obama will be one and done

[Billyboy321]

It's all up to BO, really. He'll get his second term if the economy comes around, and all is calm on the war front. If the economy continues to tank (along with his approval rating), and the wars continue, he'll be one-and-done.

[RRundbaken]

How lucky the nation is that the GOP's strongest candidates for a presidential run are guaranteed to see the inside of the Oval Office ONLY when President Obama invites them in. In a week field Mitt (be serious I know we have a Barack in office but do we want a Mitt?) couldn't get the nomination and as it is he still is running second to that dolt from Alaska. Because once these guys start talking and trying to bend their archaic and incongruous beliefs around their hypocrisy folks will be reminded of life under Bush. This nation is not going back to the politics of personality and narrow social issues that are based on the sole idea of tax cuts for the wealthy.

[conservativelady]

Unfortunately, as a Republican conservative, I can say that what you said is very accurate. As a matter of a fact, by picking on Palin all the time, she will be nominated because Palin plays the victim role like an expert, and her base is buying it. It seems like some leftists in the media want Palin to get nominated. They are picking on her KNOWING it helps her. They aren't stupid, they know what they are doing and they want to win, at ALL COSTS!!!!

[StanMann]

I take it Mitt screaming "Bigot" doesn't count as playing the victim role?

[mitsie]

The majority of people see Palin for what she is, a person who uses others. People also don't see her as a victim, as with the Letterman fiasco. I don't think she will be nominated, because people will be to scared she will lose, and the Republicans need all the help they can get. They are the ones who want to win at any cost, that's why were seeing the Republicans running to the nearst camera to attack the President.

[Shovel4U]

Joe Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’

Makes perfect sense to me.

Why, just the other day, my boat was sinking, so I drilled a few holes to let the water run out.

[MajorKong]

I don't see how the evangelicals would ever go for a Mormon on the ticket.

[swebs]

They won't and since they are the majority in the Repulican party at this time, I think she has a reasonable chance to get the nomination. She'd get destroyed in the general election but that won't matter to the nomination process.

[beyondthepale9779]

Let's face it, if Palin announced this afternoon that she would give a speech tomorrow at site X she would have 20 to 30 thousand people there to hear it. Mitt Romney could not draw that sort of crowd with two weeks notice if it was to announce for president and they gave out 100 dollar bills at the gate.

[barackobama4prez]

Yeah, but big crowds don't turn into big votes unless you're Barack Obama.

[fedupinfla]

Big deal. Def Leppard sold out the stadium here and they haven't had a hit song in 15yrs...

[oscartucker]

It's nostalgia with Def Leppard, and it's a genuine and eternal fondness of the fans (loved the group once; still love the group). SP may draw the crowd, but will that be votes--that is, enough votes to win the top office in the land? Oh, and will she quit after two years? Will there be another "Cheney" to help her out?

[AlwaysRightLeftist]

Good point. She should definitely be put in control of the most powerful nation on the planet (for now) based on her popularity. I'm thinking Miley Cyrus for 2012 though to be honest. But in all seriousness, she's a complete m0r0n, and I challenge you to prove otherwise.

And by the way you right-wing id.iot.s, the left is ridiculing her not out of fear (that is seriously the most path.et.ic, bullied, victimized stance ever) but because it is a LOT of FUN to push the buttons of someone who is so quick to anger (people who are thin-skinned are pit.iful). She is an emotional child. I love getting her goat. But really, I don't know a single leftist who does not honestly want her to run for President in 2012. THIS IS NOT A BLUFF.

[DCinFrance]

I beg to differ, ARL. I fear her a great deal. I don't trust the American electorate not to hire another ideologue, especially if the economy is still in the tank 2 years from now.

[AlwaysRightLeftist]

And just so you know the truth.... I've been trying to keep this under wraps, but here goes:

Trig has Down Syndrome because Sarah Palin inadvertently impregnated herself. Yes, she is a hermaphrodite (which explains the manly jaw).

[StanMann]

Peresphone got me curious, check posts then clicked and looked at MikeRgd

This guy listed related to Mitt? It says it is a witness list, don't see a Palin on it, what goes on?

Witness List (Revised) Steve Garagiola, WDiv David Morse Prosecutor Livingston County West Lafayette Boulevard Law Center Detroit, MI 210 S. Highlander Way Howell, MI 48843 Judge Susan Gaddis Judicial Center Sheriff Bob Bezotte 204 S Highlander Way Livingston County Sheriffs dep. Howell Michigan 48843 Livingston County Jail Building 150 S. Highlander Way G. Scott Romney Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP Howell, MI 48843 2290 First National Building Pamela Maas 660 Woodward Avenue Prosecutor Livingston County Detroit MI 48226 Law Center [phone] Office 210 S. Highlander Way Howell, MI 48843 Steven Jentzen 106 S Washington St Susan Hamilton and Staff Ypsilanti, MI 48197 211 East Grand River Howell, Michigan 48843 517-573-5082 Karl V. Fink Pear Sperling Eggan & Daniels, P.C. Neal Nielsen 24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive, Lobby D 2000 Grand River Annex Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 Suite 200 Office 734-665-4441 Brighton, Michigan 48114 Gary McCririe Livingston County Republican Party Genoa Twp. Superintendent Mike Murphy 2911 Dorr Rd. Lana Thesis and Vicki Fyke Brighton, Michigan 48116 Besty Hundley Rick Pine The Former Mrs. Gary McCririe 455 East Grand River Ave. (When she is located) Brighton, Michigan 48116 William McCririe Janice Skousen Livingston County Prosecutors Office 30979 Bramley Circle Law Center New Hudson, Michigan 210 S. Highlander Way Howell, Michigan .

[StanMann]

This guy is on the list G. Scott Romney is he related to Mitt?

[StanMann]

These guys have something in common? What?

[mnmoderate]

Anybody compare Sotomayor to Palin this week? Axis of Reason said it best:

http://axisofreason.com/2009/07/15/palin-sotomayor-and-the-politics-of-victimhood/

The Republican party needs to understand this: voters (not to mention tomorrow’s voters) have the images of these two women before their eyes this week. One is an intellectually formidable constitutional scholar who has relied on a strong work ethic to rise to the top of her profession. The other continuously plays the victim card and can not name a newspaper that she reads.

[ogidni]

Why don't the Republicans put both of these people in the White House. Maybe between them they can resolve the economy.

[chriss0114]

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[JRsNana]

All I want from Sarah Palin is, without notes, to explain that op-ed to me. Explain what she was saying, to me, from the top. I don't think she could do it because I don't think she wrote it.

[chriss0114]

it's got to be about the jobs, ya know.

[barackobama4prez]

it's about shoring up healthcare and job creation that American serviceman and the Department of Law have fought for in the Constitution, don'tcha know?

[MikeRdg]

Oops must have been Freudian, Palin invokes 100's of POSTS Mitt only 18.

Must mean no one cares about Mitt.

Truth is Mitt has snagged many a political figure, with investments linked tied Bain Capital.

[Peresphone]

How about links to sexual assaulters? Oops, that's Palin...

[StanMann]

huh? Palin linked?

[Peresphone]

Palin, links to foreign company...­..English, like Benedict Arnold...

[tcastillo]

No, it means Palin needs to be straddeling a post.

[MikeRdg]

look at it this way Palin invokes 100's of votes, Mitt only 18.

Liberals don't take Mitt seriously.