Poll: Most Republicans don't want Palin to run for president
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CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.
Most Republicans do not want to see former Alaska governor Sarah Palin enter the presidential race, a new CBS News poll finds.
Fifty-four percent of Republican registered voters want Palin to stay out of the race, as do 50 percent of Tea Party supporters. Just 34 percent of Republicans and 38 percent of Tea Party supporters want her to seek the Republican nomination. Overall, two-thirds of registered voters want Palin to stay out of the race.
Republicans are split on opinions of Palin overall: Thirty-seven percent have a favorable view, 36 percent have an unfavorable view, and 25 percent have no opinion. Her favorable rating among all voters, meanwhile, is just 21 percent, with 57 percent holding an unfavorable view.
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The Republican presidential candidate with the highest net favorability rating among Republican voters is Mitt Romney, who has a 37 percent favorable rating and an 11 percent unfavorable rating. But despite Romney's relatively high profile, half say they don't know enough about him or have no opinion.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose criticism of GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to transform Medicare angered many Republicans, is the only GOP presidential candidate or potential candidate with a net negative favorable rating among Republicans; 24 percent of Republican voters view him favorably, while 34 percent view him unfavorably.
The survey suggests that many of the Republican candidates and potential candidates - including Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman, Michelle Bachmann and Herman Cain - remain unknown to large majorities of Republicans and voters overall.
(At left, CBSNews.com Senior Political Reporter Brian Montopoli discusses the GOP field in the "The Drive.")
That can be attributed in large part to the fact that most voters have not begun to pay much attention to the race. Only 25 percent of registered voters and 29 percent of registered Republicans say they are paying a lot of attention at this point; roughly two in five are paying "some" attention. More than one third of voters say they are paying little or no attention to the race at this point.
Seven in ten registered Republicans want a nominee who would repeal the federal health care law, but only about half want one who supports changes to Medicare. Just one in ten want a nominee from the Tea Party movement, while 14 percent want one who is not from the movement; 73 percent say it doesn't matter.
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This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,024 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone June 3-7, 2011. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.
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Sarah to GOP: "I have not yet begun to fight"
Could be worse. Imagine being born in Idaho. I have never met or heard of anyone born in Idaho. Is it one of our states?
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You remember the great Senator Larry (meet u in the bathroom)Craig don't you???
Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Sarah Palin? Unfavorable
Do you think she is an idiot? Yes
Do you think she is qualified to be President? No
Do you think she is qualified to run a lemonade stand? No.
Do you want Sarah palin to run for President? Yes.
He failed because he's a marxist. If you look at it from his perspective he's been successful.
What is the definition of "Marxist", and how does that definition apply to Obama?
I bet it is because she is a woman.
Sarah Palin isn't demonized because she's a woman. Numerous women would make EXCELLENT presidents: Kathleen Sebelius, Jennifer Granholm, Hillary Clinton, just to name a few.
Female politicians everywhere must cringe every time the idiot from Wasilla opens her uneducated mouth.
Its strange to see all the Obama lovers here saying Palin doesn't have enough experience to be president while Obama's only experience prior to the election was RUNNING for president! I mean, really? Are you seriously saying that? If you want to count his year and a half in the US Senate then you have to count her year and half being governor and running an entire state.
Did Obama QUIT in the middle of his term?
Its very true, sarah likes cutting public spending. She vetoed 13% of the Alaska state budget the single largest line item veto in Alaskan state history.
There was the Ebay jet and the cook...............
True Palin doesn't like spending the Alaskan state budget but she LOVES extending it, asking for combined increases in the operating budget of 27% over two years. $12,680 per capita, $51,000 per family of four.
Palin just loves slashing taxes and letting enterprise shine. Well, she would wouldn't she folks, this is Alaska. Alaska is number one by a country mile for federal handouts. A dubious title it has held for over nearly 20 years. This figure thrown into shameful relief by federal revenue from Alaska under Palin ranking 48 putting giving them also the largest (with no close second) deficit gap. No, if Palin wanted to show her fiscal reform credentials she should have stopped begging welfare off the lower 49. Can you say WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION?
Yes, people, your libby progressive tax dollar is funding these 'self sufficient common sense, fiscal conservative,real American, Carhartt loving, energy rich, conservatives. They don't believe in paying taxes. Not when they have you to do it for them.
What does Alaska have to show for all this federal spending? Great schools? No? Great social services? No. Great community projects? No. Great regeneration projects?No. The truth Alaska is a barely sustainable proposition as a state from the get go, not helped by ballooning earmarks disappearing in to the back pockets of businesses, consultants, cronies, contracts as per usual but with nothing spectacular to show for it.