Rasmussen: Obama up 17 against Palin

[Tender Branson]

Will she or won’t she? Sarah Palin has a busy schedule leading up to a major public event in Iowa on September 3, and Republican insider Karl Rove predicts she’s about to enter the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

If Election Day was right now, President Obama would defeat the former Alaska governor 50% to 33%, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. This marks the first time that the president has risen out of the 40s in hypothetical matchups with any of the major GOP presidential hopefuls. Fifteen percent (15%) prefer some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided.

Last month, Obama posted a 47% to 38% lead over Palin, the GOP’s unsuccessful vice presidential candidate in 2008.

Palin earns support from 62% of Republicans, while 88% of Democrats back the president. Voters not affiliated with either party prefer Obama by a 51% to 30% margin.

Obama holds a narrow 44% to 38% lead over Palin among male voters, but women prefer the incumbent by a sizable 56% to 29% margin.

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The match-up surveys of 1,000 Likely Voters were conducted August 11-12, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error for the surveys is +/- 3% with a 95% level of confidence.  Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.

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[TJ in Oregon]

Palin earns support from 62% of Republicans

If she were to somehow win the Republican nomination, it would leave the election ripe for a serious third party challenger. You would have an unpopular incumbent and a challenger practically no one likes. Only 62% of Republicans would vote for Palin, so the other 38% might be ready to look elsewhere rather than vote for Obama. If the right person were to enter... you could have a third party president.

[Ben Romney]

“Political organizer Peter Singleton tells National Review Online that Sarah Palin will likely launch a presidential campaign by the end of September. “I believe that she will run,” he says. “I can’t see her sitting this election out.””

“Palin, a former Alaska governor, is scheduled to address a tea-party rally on September 3 in south-central Iowa. Singleton is one of the forces behind the event, working with grassroots groups. “Labor Day will kick off the Republican campaign for the nomination,” he hints. “She is going to make a major, major speech.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/275146/she-will-run-robert-costa#

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Palin earns support from 62% of Republicans

If she were to somehow win the Republican nomination, it would leave the election ripe for a serious third party challenger. You would have an unpopular incumbent and a challenger practically no one likes. Only 62% of Republicans would vote for Palin, so the other 38% might be ready to look elsewhere rather than vote for Obama. If the right person were to enter... you could have a third party president.

Possibly, but Palin won't go anywhere. She would need to make a big splash early on to get rolling, and Bachmann has already rounded up the Iowa Republicans who want to vote for a unexperienced loony Conservative MILF, she has no chance in NH, and by South Carolina other candidates would already have established themselves as front-runners. Besides other Republicans like to praise her now when she's not a threat, but If she actually entered they'd eat her alive. Her starpower has faded too much by now for her to actually survive that.

[Reaper]

She's almost mentally challanged.  I hope she runs for the lulz.