Fox News Viewers Favor Mike Huckabee Among Most Likely GOP Presidential Candidates: Poll

A new survey released by Public Policy Polling suggests self-described regular Fox News viewers favor former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee over other big Republican names believed to be mulling presidential campaigns for the next election cycle.

PPP relays the numbers on who's up and who's down in the eyes of the Fox News community:

Among the most likely Republican Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee leads the way with a +19 favorability spread at 45/26. He's followed by Sarah Palin at +16 (53/37), Mitt Romney at +4 (40/36), and Newt Gingrich at +2 (41/39).

Findings from a Gallup poll released earlier this month suggest Huckabee is the preferred potential candidate among Fox News viewers to run as the GOP nominee against President Barack Obama in the next election cycle. Politics Daily reported at the time:

The winner of the Fox "presidential primary" is Huckabee who tops the list for regular Fox viewers at 18 percent, followed by Mitt Romney at 17 percent, Palin at 13 percent and Gingrich at 13 percent. Santorum was way back at 3 percent, according to the poll conducted Feb. 18-20. The margin of error is 3 points so no one in the top four is too far apart when it comes to viewer support. Gallup defined regular viewers as those who tune in four to five times a week.

In an intriguing twist, the survey from PPP suggests Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker polls ahead of the usual suspects with a +30 favorability spread among Fox News viewers despite the fact that he is not currently believed to be mounting a campaign for the White House in 2012.

 

 

Comments

[Gary Pedersen]

02:34 PM on 04/04/2011

Is this the same Huck(ster) who would like to force every American at gunpoint to watch and believe his version of the founding? I love it when the "nuts" are in charge of the asylum.

[Brigette]

12:28 AM on 03/22/2011

Fingers crossed. The crazier the candidate, the better for us.

[TyneCrescent]

07:11 PM on 03/21/2011

Folks are really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this lineup of incompetents. Even Donald Trump thinks he could be president. Really? But as always, you have to consider the source that was polled (regular Faux Noize viewers) so nothing new here.

This group couldn't find their way around the block.

[pilotsknob]

07:05 PM on 03/21/2011

Whoever ends up representing the Republican party, it won't matter. Odds are on Obama for 2012.

[joeyfoto]

11:06 AM on 03/24/2011

pilotwsknob wrote: "Whoever ends up representi ng the Republican party, it won't matter. Odds are on Obama for 2012."

Too bad odds don't win elections...

It's a long time between now and November of 2012.

As bad as this GOP field is, don't count your chickens just yet... the world could still lay an egg on the president'f face. Voters are as fickle as polls... only one counts and American voters have proven, recently, that they could make a ridiculous mistake — twice. We'll see...

[dkinton49]

06:02 PM on 03/21/2011

A monkey could run and beat Obama. He has screwed up so royally that most of his own party do not want him back. He is not a leader.

[pilotsknob]

07:03 PM on 03/21/2011

Clever, but totally wrong.

[SocialistBoy]

01:18 AM on 03/22/2011

Yeah, like the one we got rid of after 8 years of monkey doo!! Go for it!!

[eelo1]

05:29 PM on 03/21/2011

With Obama giving the republicans oodles of material for campaign commercials whoever the repubs choose it will be landslide for them

[eelo1]

05:28 PM on 03/21/2011

Anybody but Obama the incompetent one

[pilotsknob]

07:04 PM on 03/21/2011

Obama is quite competent.

[WeAreUnstoppable]

05:04 PM on 03/21/2011

Who cares what Fox "news" viewers want, Fox is gonna pick for them

[NoWayMan]

04:57 PM on 03/21/2011

what this poll really says is that fox viewers and repubs are seriously desperate.

[mustraline]

04:53 PM on 03/21/2011

A Hucka-fraud candidacy guarantees an Obama victory in '12.

[Madagain]

04:28 PM on 03/21/2011

Don't worry anyone, republicans have all wized up, and are going to vote for President Obama this time.Um, no, that cannot be right. Republicans NEVER wize up...

[TyneCrescent]

07:15 PM on 03/21/2011

By the time the current congress, especially the House, finishes screwing things up for everyone for the next few years, the damage will be done and mainly self-inflicted on their own supporters by their own pols who've duped them.

[Madagain]

04:23 PM on 03/21/2011

My advicve to Huckabee. Lay low, because, like all your compatriots, you will prove yourself to be a fake if you speak too much. Atually, maby you should speak a lot, and save America from another republican embarrasment.

[towny]

01:52 PM on 03/21/2011

They want someone just like themselves, which is VERY SCARY!

[frappe]

11:02 AM on 03/21/2011

"Who do Fox news viewers want to see become president?"

Gomer Pyle?

[Gaylord P Farqua]

10:44 AM on 03/21/2011

Is the response limited to Fox employees or can anyone be considered? All Fox supported candidates should be tested in a debate with Charles Krauthammer. If they are not put to sleep by Mr. Dour, they can go to a similar session with Beck. The challenge with Glenn will be to unravel the clues on a yet to be showcased "chalk board" and find Waldo.