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Palin More Popular in Northeast? Huckabee Polls Best Against Obama?

By: Mr_Ed (Diary)  |  July 21st, 2009 at 09:16 AM  | 

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The Rasmussen polls released yesterday reported on Mitt Romney’s and Sarah Palin’s competitive state against President Obama in 2012.  Another reputable polling outfit, Public Policy, released its latest poll yesterday, with some interesting results:

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_National_720.pdf

Among other things, Sarah Palin appears to be more popular among Northeastern Republicans than in other parts of the country.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/07/notes-on-palin-and-gop.html

And, among four potential GOP contenders (Romney, Palin, Huckabee and Gingrich), Huckabee’s spread versus Obama and his overall favorability numbers are the best.

It would be interesting to have Rasmussen include Huckabee in their next 2012 polling exercise.

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  • janis

    Can we just focus on NOW and possibly 2010? I know you’re a Huck fan and wish to push him as much as possible, but it’s just way, way, way too soon to have to look at this stuff. We’re in the equivalent of a gunfight right now and what you’re doing is the same as dreaming about the gun you’d like to have 3 years on instead of shooting at the enemy that’s looking to destroy you RIGHT NOW.

    Focus, man, focus.

    • randy streu

      If a politician or pundit isn’t helping with 2010, they’re useless to the cause and can just go to sleep for a few years and quit bugging those of us who are concentrating on the battle at hand.

    • Mr_Ed

      I agree these polls are meaningless now. But news is news. Drudge ran the Rasmussen results yesterday featuring Romney and Palin. This post is meant to:

      1) highlight the interesting results about Palin being more popular among Northeastern Republicans than Republicans in other regions of the country

      2) re-emphasize the falling popularity of our current President

      3) give Huck equal time in the 2012 comparability polls

      Besides, I’m not the crazed Huck fan I used to be. I’m still searching for the ideal conservative leader on whom I can hang my hat. Marco Rubio could be it. Ted Garza (an upcoming Texan) holds promise.

      • janis

        I don’t even really want to hear the year “2012″ spoken of at this point. I don’t care about polls which change weekly, I care about the reality of what’s happening today, right now this minute. And that would be the usurping of our freedom minute by minute. We know this POTUS is falling rapidly in popularity and if you agree that polls are meaningless now, then you shouldn’t be worrying about giving Huck equal time. Huck’s got a show of his own to flack his public profile.

        We need every single person here to be focusing on RIGHT NOW and fighting with their every breath to defeat what’s happening RIGHT NOW.

        So, Mr. Ed, Mr, Ed, MR, Ed–focus, man ,focus.

        • George Claghorn
        • Mr_Ed

          …is distracting me from my focus — and perhaps your own focus, too? Each response you make to my post distracts you, does it not?

          • janis
    • George Claghorn

      2012 is -not- important right now. It’s time to put on the blinders and pay attention to 2010, or else we risk being distracted from our goals and ultimately failing.

  • Vegas_Rick
  • redstatebluestate123

    isn’t PPP an openly partisan democratic pollster?

  • http://www.redstate.com/britcom/ Britcom

    I had a look at the poll and now it’s clear to me why the Dems are afraid of Palin. Huckabee does well but with a lot of unsures voted. Palin actually steals votes from the Dems base where the others don’t. That makes Palin an effective weapon against any Dem.

    The poll also tells you where blacks are. They are about 95% lopsided for Obama (no big secret there) but oddly Romney seems to do well with them. Go figure.

  • Finrod

    Normally I’m the first to say ‘no 2012 talk until 2010 elections are over’ but since this is just a round-up of polling, I’m fine with that.

  • JadedByPolitics

    perhaps you will double check what you find to be reputable against you know real polling…Rasmussen reputable…public policy BOGUS!

  • Mr_Ed

    …about Public Policy’s reputation among conservatives. However, their polling results from yesterday’s released polls generally mirror those of Rasmussen’s results from yesterday. At least in areas in which they both polled on the same subjects.

    I’m still curious as to why Palin seems more popular among Northeastern Republicans than Republicans in other geographic areas.

  • Rod_Patrick

    But early polls at this stage are all NONSENSE.

    Pollsters and the media just want to say something intriguing for the sake of readership/patronage.

    So I don’t really care at the moment who is leading or not.

    Let’s focus first on Obama’s stupidities for the meantime and make sure that the majority of the American people will clearly see them as they happen.

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