Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin are at the top of the list among Republicans looking ahead to 2012:
In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey out Friday that serves as an early measure of potential support for the next GOP presidential nomination, Huckabee tops the list. Thirty-four percent of Republicans and independent voters who lean towards the GOP say they are very likely to support the former Arkansas governor if he were to become their party’s nominee in 2012. Huckabee surprised many by winning this year’s Republican caucuses in Iowa and seven other contests before ending his run in March.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate in this year’s election, draws nearly as much support: 32 percent of those polled said they would get behind a Palin nomination. And with the survey’s sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 points, Palin and Huckabee are statistically tied.
The survey is an early measure of possible support, not a horse race snapshot.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is in third place in the poll, with 28 percent of those questioned saying they are very likely to suport him as the GOP nominee in 2012.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich draws roughly the same level of support as Romney, at 27 percent. In 2007, Gingrich flirted with making a run for the Republican presidential nomination, but decided against jumping into the race.
Twenty-three percent of those polled say they would be very likely to support Rudy Giuliani if he decides to run again. The former New York City mayor was the national frontrunner in many polls in late 2007, before performing poorly in the early primaries and caucuses. He dropped out of the race for the White House in late January.
Louisana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who’s considered a rising star in the GOP, draws support from 19 percent of those surveyed, and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist 7 percent.
So, here’s where the numbers come out:
- Mike Huckabee – 34%
- Sarah Palin – 32%
- Mitt Romney – 28%
- Newt Gingrich – 27%
- Rudy Giuliani – 23%
- Bobby Jindal – 19%
- Charlie Christ – 7%
So, apparently, the Republicans are thinking that their best hope for salvation in 2012 comes from either a bible-tumping neo-con or a woman who spent most of the 2008 Campaign incapable of forming a coherent sentence.
Yea, that’s gonna work.
December 6th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
The GOP needs to get real if they expect to have any chance of making a come back anytime in the next 50 years. Sarah Palin single handedly made the GOP a laughing stock of the media. Also Huchabee is a better musician than a contender for the White House. There are other more qualified people of substance that should be out front such as Mit Romney. If Sarah Palin is the best the GOP has to offer, that insures another Democrat will win.