2012 Poll: Obama Surges While Sarah Palin Slides

President Barack Obama is solidifying support among Democrats for their 2012 nomination, even as Sarah Palin is losing ground to other Republican candidates, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released on Tuesday.

CNN reports on the results:

In the battle for the GOP presidential nomination, the survey suggests Palin may have some work to do if she throws her hat in the ring. Only 49 percent of Republicans say that they are likely to support Sen. John McCain's running mate in 2008 for the Republican nomination in 2012.

"That's a huge 18-point drop since December of 2008, when two-thirds of GOPers said they were likely to support Palin," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland explained. "It also puts her well behind potential rivals Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, and a bit behind Newt Gingrich as well."

The lack of Republican support for a potential presidential run from Palin underscores an earlier Public Policy Polling survey, which found that the former Alaska governor is widely unpopular in her home state, not to mention in a variety of other key swing states.

HuffPost's Sam Stein argues that the poll results should be reassuring to the president, who has fielded some heavy criticism from progressives this year.

According to a CNN/Opinion Research survey, a full 78 percent of Democrats want Obama to win the nomination for a second term in office -- up five percent from late October. At roughly the same point in his presidency, only 57 percent of Democrats wanted Clinton to be re-nominated.

But if all the negative polling data dissuades Palin from running, the Democrats could be the ones to take the hit. In November, Vice President Joe Biden contended that a Palin challenge would leave Obama in "good shape."

Comments

[The Ghoul]

02:42 AM on 01/07/2011

I can't wait for the republicans to eat each other while Obama slides into re-election

[Harbinger08]

06:59 PM on 01/03/2011

Sure. But there is a very real possibility that with a wide GOP field the TeaDrinkers and Palin fanatics will swamp the primaries and get her the nomination, like with O'Donnell. Notice how many of the Washington insider party elites, intellectuals and "bluebloods" (as the Palinites like to call them) have been ratcheting up the public criticism of Palin. They're genuinely worried. Criticism of the Queen will whip up a backlash, certainly. I'm sure they're already calling Will a traitor and a RHINO, just like Noonan. Someone besides Palin is going to have to inspire enough enthusiasm among the base to get them to vote for them instead of her. It's looking like the vote may be split too many ways in the early primaries to stop her. O'Donnell snatched her nomination away with less than 5% of the voters in Delaware. Please run, Sarah, please please please.

[davg]

04:50 PM on 01/03/2011

Everyone wants to see Obama's birth certificate. I want to see Palin's undergraqd college transcripts... all SIX years of them.

[Patricia Cash]

05:39 PM on 01/07/2011

I want to see her medical records both from Alaska and anotehr state where its been talked about she had at least two abortions. Remember she refused to open her medical records and just showed a signed letter of good health from her Alaskan doctor - I want her Medical Records-

[Gordonfan24]

05:41 AM on 01/09/2011

How about the supposed treatment in Canada?

[venice6]

02:06 PM on 01/02/2011

Reagan's Alzheimer's Disease was effecting his Presidency.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDK--X0qOmg

[Candid One]

07:51 PM on 01/03/2011

Nancy was in charge anyway.

[venice6]

01:56 PM on 01/02/2011

Give Ms. Palin a pass ...

She is experiencing mid life symptoms.

http://www .project-a ware.org/E xperience/ symptoms.s html

[Candid One]

07:53 PM on 01/03/2011

Men have the same issues. Witness Dubya on that carrier deck proclaiming "Mission Accomplished!" He shared his midlife crisis with the nation for eight years!

[ExitZero]

05:09 PM on 01/09/2011

Nearly every male poltiician is in the middle of male menopause. Credit where it's due.

[JohnBryansFontaine]

08:09 AM on 01/02/2011

There they go again. Conservatives bringing up the Gipper in support of a Palin candidacy seem to be forgetting a few historical facts.

About that Palin-Reagan comparison ...
A restive GOP base in love with an ideologically extreme ex-governor: Haven't we seen this story before?
by Steve Kornacki

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/11/29/mccain_palin_reagan

[venice6]

02:03 PM on 01/02/2011

Wasn't the GOP's Sacro Religious Icon, Ronald Reagan debilitated by Alzheimer's Disease

http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/Publications/adfact.htm

Reagan called Princess Diana , " Princess David " and couldn't remember many of his cabinet members names, don't worry the great de regulator, Ronald Reagan had his bosses, the Corporations, run the rest of his Presidency. Luckily we were not in a state of emergency, America would be in jeopardy.

This part is like Sarah Palin.

[venice6]

02:21 AM on 01/02/2011

"

2012 Poll: Obama Surges While Sarah Palin Slides"

Duh!

[YellowDogInRedCounty]

02:03 PM on 01/01/2011

I'm voting for the guy from "The Rent Is Too Damn High" party.

[onecrazyprogressive]

11:15 AM on 12/31/2010

BREAKING NEWS!!

TLC’s Sarah Palin’s Alaska Jumps the Shark by Attacking Critical Blogger

http://tinyurl.com/37985a5

This is pure vintage Palin. She can make an enemy out of thin air. Because, see, no one is stopping loggers in Alaska. No evil environmen­talists are stopping “progress” in Alaska. This is another Palin v No One fight, where the viewer gets to plug in the evil guy (who is always a liberal and usually in the White House).

[Patricia Cash]

10:24 AM on 01/09/2011

She has to have an enemy ,she from what I've been told was like that in the Metro Council , Mayors Office and Governor she is ,simply put mentally unstable-

[Pam Justus Overholt]

08:48 PM on 12/30/2010

There is still quite a long time until the 2012 election. And I am sure she will give us many more moments to roll our eyes and shout in disgust at her stupidity. She is just that kind of polarizing person that will NEVER be elected president. Even in her home state she isn't well liked. I have yet to hear a valid reason for her walking away from the Govenors office up there. She is just a greedy attention wh@re that thinks she is intelligent. Not to mention her voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard!!!!

[forestnfama]

05:18 AM on 01/03/2011

What is more disgusting than her becoming president is the people who would vote for her. These are the ignorant masses that put Bush and Cheney in office and are the ones screaming and hooting about the deficit and such all the while supporting tax cuts that expand the deficit.

[RyanC1384]

06:45 PM on 12/30/2010

Everyone knows its easy to get dragged in the mud by the day to day of Washington. Who won the media cycle, what do the polls say, etc. Certainly everyone has their specific disappointed and frustration with the President, but its difficult to argue he hasn't worked hard and gotten an immense amount of important things done.

This is a pretty cool video and breakdown of what President Obama has accomplished in just 2 years of his presidency.

A macro, birds eye view :

http://www.doubledutchpolitics.com/2010/12/president-barack-obama-two-years-of-progress/

[BIG JOHN]

05:55 PM on 12/30/2010

How's that lacky supporty thing working out for ya?

[Godweiser]

05:34 PM on 12/30/2010

Doph, wrong article to post this comment on. Forgive me.

[BIG JOHN]

05:16 PM on 12/30/2010

Let the church say amen....

[ron ray]

01:34 PM on 12/30/2010

Run, Sarah, run! let's have a tea party-progressive showdown in 2012 and see who wins. and really, who else? Mitt and Hucksterbee couldn't beat McCain, for chris'sakes.

Stand Obama next to Sarah and no one will be able to say there's no difference between the parties.