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Title: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: blacken700 on May 22, 2011, 01:20:27 PM
Source: Associated Press

Odd as it might seem, given that her favorability ratings are not that high, the former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is now within the margin of error of the lead in many polls, indicating she very well could be the preferred 2012 presidential candidate of the Republican Party. How did that happen? How did the polarizing conservative firebrand move from a steady fourth or fifth position (depending on which polls were accessed) into second place in a recent Gallup Poll?

According to a Gallup poll released on May 17, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney led all potential Republican presidential nominees with 20 percent of respondents saying they would prefer he be the 2012 GOP choice. Palin was only two points behind. Given the statistical margin of error for the poll (+/- 3 percent), there is a statistical possibility Palin just might be the most preferred of all the candidates.

It appears Palin had a little help from her Republican colleagues and potential competitors. On May 14 former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a leader in many national polls as the preferred Republican candidate, announced via his Fox News talk show that he would not be seeking the GOP nomination in 2012, saying his heart just wasn't in it. Two days later, businessman Donald Trump, who had also led or maintained a frontrunner position among potential candidates, announced that he, too, would not seek the Republican Party's nomination in August 2012.

And then, just days after declaring that he was running for president, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich brought down the puzzled wrath of most of the GOP by calling Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal (incorporated in the overwhelmingly Republican-supported 2012 budget passed by the House of Representatives) a "radical change" from current Medicare practices, describing it as undesirable "social engineering."


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Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: 240 is Back on May 22, 2011, 04:13:50 PM
imagine Palin knocking Cain out of the race.  Wouldn't that be some shit?  You fanboys worshipping her for 4 years would get your wish... she tosses out a person who would beat Obama badly in the general election...

just wonderful.  Obama wins four more years because morons believe Palin will do more to fix the economy than Cain can.  Oh brother!
Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: blacken700 on May 22, 2011, 04:22:02 PM
yeah but she's prrreeeeeety  :D
Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: 240 is Back on May 22, 2011, 04:25:13 PM
actually - I have to think most getbiggers, even those with a crush on palin, would choose Cain over Palin in a primary.

33, who would you vote for, if those 2 were on the ticket?
Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: Soul Crusher on May 22, 2011, 04:30:53 PM
Cain.  I am very mpressed by his life. Story.
Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on May 22, 2011, 04:32:43 PM
She's not running so why is she even in this type of discussion?
Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: Soul Crusher on May 22, 2011, 04:40:41 PM
Do you really thibk blacken wants to discuss issues? 
Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: Purge_WTF on May 22, 2011, 04:42:02 PM
yeah but she's prrreeeeeety  :D

  Prrreeeeeety dumb. If she's the nominee, we get four more years of Obama, guaranteed.
Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: Soul Crusher on May 22, 2011, 04:43:56 PM
She's not running.  Blackass and the other obamanuts need to attack her to avoid discussing the collosal mess the economy is still in.
Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: 240 is Back on May 22, 2011, 04:45:32 PM
she might be running now. 

suddenly, huck drops out and she's got "fire in her belly".

She knows that the far right people who vote solely with a bible don't have a candidate at the moment ;)
Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: garebear on May 22, 2011, 04:45:48 PM
imagine Palin knocking Cain out of the race.  Wouldn't that be some shit?  You fanboys worshipping her for 4 years would get your wish... she tosses out a person who would beat Obama badly in the general election...

just wonderful.  Obama wins four more years because morons believe Palin will do more to fix the economy than Cain can.  Oh brother!
WTF r u talking about?
Title: Re: Sarah Palin Moves into Statistical Tie for Lead in Wide-Open GOP 2012 Field
Post by: 240 is Back on May 22, 2011, 05:08:02 PM
WTF r u talking about?

i believe that Cain would fare way better against obama than Palin would, in a general election matchup.

His no-nonsense speaking of "stop spending money, barrack" will speak to a lot of voters.