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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Please, Mr.Ed, please don't start this now.
janis (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 10:02AM EST (link)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.
Amen, Janis. Like Palin, right now Huck is only useful where he helps Conservatives win in 2010.
randy streu (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 10:29AM EST (link)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.
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Mr_Ed (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 10:37AM EST (link)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.
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Then let Drudge do his thing and we need to do ours.
janis (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 10:54AM EST (link)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.
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Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 10:56AM EST (link)Janis, your scolding...
Mr_Ed (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 11:20AM EST (link)…is distracting me from my focus — and perhaps your own focus, too? Each response you make to my post distracts you, does it not?
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Not in the least. It just gets rid of the clutter. nt
janis (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 11:48AM EST (link)What Janis said.
Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 10:41AM EST (link)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.
who cares? nt
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 10:29AM EST (link)“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
All the points about 3 years away aside
redstatebluestate123 (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 11:55AM EST (link)isn’t PPP an openly partisan democratic pollster?
The poll link alone is reason enough to recco this.
Britcom (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 12:09PM EST (link)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.
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Finrod (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 12:15PM EST (link)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.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Public Policy reputable? you lost me on that statement...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 12:31PM EST (link)perhaps you will double check what you find to be reputable against you know real polling…Rasmussen reputable…public policy BOGUS!
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Mr_Ed (Diary) Tuesday, July 21st at 1:38PM EST (link)…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.
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Thanks for the info.
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Wednesday, July 22nd at 6:08AM EST (link)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.