Three Republicans are bunched within five points of each when potential GOP presidential candidates are matched up for 2012 with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney barely on top, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted July 21-22. The margin of error for the part of the survey dealing only with Republican voters is 6 points.
Romney leads with 22 percent, followed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 21 percent and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with 17 percent. Former New York City mayor (we're dealing with a lot of "formers" here) Rudi Giuliani polls 13 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gets 9 percent and by the time we get to an elected official, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, he scrapes together 3 percent. Ten percent say it's too soon to decide.
Other recent polls have varied on the 2012 results. A Washington Post/ABC News survey conducted in mid-July had Huckabee on top while a July 10-12 Gallup poll favored Romney. Several recent polls made clear that voters overall don't want to see Palin as president.
When voters overall were asked what would be the next best career move for Palin, 32 percent said she should be a home-maker, 17 percent recommended becoming a talk show host, 14 percent said vice president, 10 percent said a college professor and 6 percent said president. Only 12 percent of Republicans picked president for her with the biggest group (27 percent) saying vice-president.
On another one of Fox's occasional from-out-of-the-blue questions, a plurality of voters said the Democrats have had more sex scandals than Republicans - by 39 percent to 19 percent - even though the most recent revelations has involved Republicans.
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College professor? Palin? Where? Wasilla Community College?
Posted by: Wings
| July 28, 2009 12:44 PM
Gotta agree with Wings.
Posted by: NObama
| July 28, 2009 1:56 PM
Sarah should move to Nevada and join up with John Ensign. They could start a brothel just for Republicans outside of Las Vegas!
Posted by: Chuckles
| July 28, 2009 2:32 PM
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