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Poll: Even Conservatives Don't Want Palin Running For President
Eric Kleefeld | November 17, 2009, 11:05AM
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A new CBS poll finds that Americans overwhelmingly don't want Sarah Palin to run for president -- and furthermore, even conservatives don't want her in the race.
Respondents were asked: "Would you like Sarah Palin to run for president in 2012?"
The top-line numbers: Only 24% would like Palin to run, compared to 66% who don't want her to run. Broken down by party identification, among Republicans it's 44%-48%, with Democrats 9%-83%, and among independents 26%-62%.
And among self-identified conservatives, only 41% said yes, to 50% who said no. Palin's only bright spot was white evangelicals, who favored a run by a narrow margin of 48%-42%.
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commie atheist
November 17, 2009 11:18 AM
Don't listen to them, Sarah! America needs you to run!
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Richard L. Adlof
November 17, 2009 12:10 PM in reply to commie atheist
Palin-Bachmann 2012!!!!
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ericf
November 17, 2009 12:25 PM in reply to Richard L. Adlof
The poll is nonsense. Probably 100% of Democrats hope she'll run. If we could trick, um, talk Palin into picking Bachmann for VP, all the better.
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geofu54
November 17, 2009 12:42 PM in reply to commie atheist
No worries, she won't. Her brain is so full of shit (= herself) she never thinks rationally...
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CT Voter
November 17, 2009 11:24 AM
But Candy Crowley says that she taps into something!!
Candy Crowley also said, when asked about Palin saying that Obama began his career in the home of a domestic terrorist, "well, the left has an interest in portraying opponents as wild-eyed individuals", or words to that effect, and never actually addressed the original question which was about Sarah Palin in particular
Get that? Sarah Palin makes incendiary comments, and it's the responsibility of the left according to Ms. Crowley.
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CT Voter
November 17, 2009 11:25 AM in reply to CT Voter
/rant.
These poll numbers give me hope for the American public.
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NotaGOP
November 17, 2009 12:54 PM in reply to CT Voter
Are you sure that's what Candy Crowley was saying? Or did Crowley claim that most US males want to tap into Sarah Palin? (It's amazing how the rightwing noise machine can garble quotations in ways that benefit them.)
And no, I'm not one of them. Her eyes are almost as crazy as Michelle Bachman's.
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Homefries
November 17, 2009 11:28 AM
How many of those wanting her to run were actually progressives?
You go girl. No one personifies the majesty and wisdom of the right wing quite like you.
*wink*
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Indie Pro
November 17, 2009 11:32 AM
The US needs a quitter just like her.
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Cal Gal
November 17, 2009 12:07 PM in reply to Indie Pro
Good one.
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commie atheist
November 17, 2009 2:22 PM in reply to Indie Pro
The GOP: Party of Quitters and Cowards!!!
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pdxer
November 17, 2009 11:32 AM
Don't believe the polls, Sarah. Run in 2012...and if you don't get the nomination, go third-party! That's super-mavericky!
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Indie Pro
November 17, 2009 11:40 AM in reply to pdxer
Yes. Going third party is super-mavericky! She should do that and show people what going rogue really means.
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Michael A
November 17, 2009 11:45 AM in reply to Indie Pro
You betcha!
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CT Voter
November 17, 2009 11:49 AM in reply to Michael A
Also too.
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Xantar
November 17, 2009 11:50 AM in reply to CT Voter
*wink!*
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Michael A
November 17, 2009 11:57 AM in reply to Xantar
Pagent walk to the presidency by way of a third party. Maybe she can reuse the bull moose label. Obviously, her policies are a 180 from Teddy, but that never stopped these people before. She likes dressing moose I hear.
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Cal Gal
November 17, 2009 12:09 PM in reply to Michael A
Not BULL moose. More like cow mousse.
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commie atheist
November 17, 2009 2:24 PM in reply to Cal Gal
Moose dung.
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Cleo
November 17, 2009 12:01 PM
If she likes dressing moose, how does she keep their booties on?
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mattomega
November 17, 2009 12:32 PM
Who cares if she, or anybody, runs? What matters is if she wins.
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foodchain11
November 17, 2009 1:35 PM
Another notch in Bill Kristol's credibility!! First, Dan Quayle, then the Iraq War with GW Bush, then Sara Palin! Why do people listen to him? I mean, really, why?
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Peter Principle
November 17, 2009 1:46 PM
Well there goes that darn liberal media again -- tryin' to confuse the issue by draggin' in things like facts and numbers, and askin' all those pushy questions, and putting "g"s on the end of words.
But Sarah'll show 'em, 'cause she's one of us: A simple moose-huntin', God Jesus lovin', commie hatin' good ol' gal. A woman of the land. The common clay of the last frontier. You know: a moron.
(hat tip to Mel Brooks)
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jenesq
November 17, 2009 1:46 PM
Sarah Palin is the Kate Gosselin of politics...a legend in her own mind who does not realize that her popularity comes from the public penchant for watching trainwrecks unfold.
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Schmed- ley
November 17, 2009 2:13 PM
Palin's only bright spot was white evangelicals, who favored a run by a narrow margin of 48%-42%.
These are the redneck males who get on their knees daily and fervently pray for a miracle date with Sarah.
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Michael A
November 17, 2009 3:29 PM
Awwww! Rambo of Northwest is mad. Too Bad and too funny.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091117/pl_ynews/ynews_pl984
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Schmed- ley
November 17, 2009 3:43 PM in reply to Michael A
This analysis is even funnier.
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