Sarah Palin now just 5 points behind Obama in new poll

Tea Party supporters walk past a sign of Sarah Palin during the Tea Party of America's "Restoring America" event at the Indianola Balloon Festival Grounds September 3, 2011 in Indianola, Iowa.

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Sarah Palin has not officially declared whether she will jump in the race for president. A new poll may give her one more reason to take the plunge. She is just five points behind President Obama in the survey released Tuesday by Marist College and McClatchy Newspapers.

The Fox News analyst garnered 44 percent in the poll, compared to Mr. Obama's 49 percent.

That's a sharp increase for Palin, who had been consistently running about 20 points behind Mr. Obama. A key reason for her gain is stronger support among independents, who favor the one-time vice presidential nominee to the sitting president, the newspaper said.

Mr. Obama's approval rating fell to 39 percent, the lowest level of his presidency, and his disapproval rating rose to 52 percent. That is the first time a majority of registered voters said they disapprove of Mr. Obama.

"Although numbers like these typically spell doom for an incumbent's re-election prospects, the Republicans in Congress and eventually his GOP opponent could still provide Obama with running room," said Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Three out of four voters think the United States is in the midst of an economic recession, while 22 percent think the economy is not in a recession and 3 percent are not sure.

The telephone poll was conducted September 13-14 among 1,042 randomly selected adults, including 825 registered voters, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The registered voters subset has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

[magicwhiteman]

Well obama has a 36 % approval rating , so if she is 5 points behind him i would say that is not good. She needs to quit the rope a dope with the media and American People and get in or out period. She is waiting to see if Michelle Bachmann gets out then she will jump in. She wants to be the only woman in the race, and besides Michelle Bachmann is good looking and very smart too. Palin would like Bachmann to get out and then try to get Bachmann to endorse her etc. I know what i am talking about trust me. In addition she wants to asks Herman Cain to be her VP running mate. He is BLACK . blacker than Obama and 10 times smarter than Obama and Biden put together.

Palin/Cain 2012 - whoDat

[Birdman04]

She is scared to death to debate. A quitter with no credibility, honor or integrity like her wouldn't stand a chance. Ron Paul is at least consistent, honest and tells it like it is and I will concede he may be a certified fruitcake.

She is not and never will be a viable candidate for public office again.
The world hates a quitter who let down the good people who elected her for love of the almighty dollar.

[Lindag10]

I like what I've seen of Huntsman, but he is intelligent and has common sense so of course no self respecting rightwinger will give him the time of day.

[JV1970]

In my opinion neither Paul nor Huntsman will make it past the primary. In fact I doubt that they even make it to the primary.

[anOPINIONATEDsob]

The comments on Fox never fail to amuse the intelligent American. Sarah Palin as POTUS is perhaps the most laughable thing since Limbaugh got caught with his "pain" meds. If the republicans have any more debates they will expose the ignorance of all their leadership not already out of the closet!

[Lindag10]

Yes Sarah is amusing. She just got outed by Levi Johnston. She was hitting on him while he was dating Bristol (no wonder Bristol decided to get pregnant). It was a "cougar crush" just like that broha over her sexting a teenage boy in PA. LMAO

[JV1970]

I suppose you have a copy of Johnston's book and know first hand what's in it or are you just repeating the crap that's on the internet? Even if you do, do you believe every bit of trash that you read? Apparently you do when it's about Palin! You probably believe those trashy tabloids that line the checkout stands at the supermarkets that have articles like the one they ran a few years ago about batboy, the kid that's half boy and half bat, too! You forget that Levi Johnston is not exactly impartial when it comes to the Palin's. Bristol gave him the boot and she has custody of his son and won't allow him unsupervised visits. Therefore, whatever he wrote in his book should be taken with suspicion and not believed because his goal is to trash the Palin family. In fact I'm going to repeat that the Palins should immediately file suit against him and have him pulled up in court and make him prove every word that he's written about them before a judge.

[noloyalisti]

Palin is about as Christian as my cat. They only claim to be fake Christian to appeal to the lowest level of Americans, the gullible and ignorant. All Palin cares about is money, like the rest of the failed and fake Christian Republicons.

[JV1970]

It's just as I've told several others. You might as well settle down and get used to her because whether you like her or not she'll probably be your next president and there's nothing you can do about it except vote against her. After she's elected all of your griping and nasty remarks won't matter and won't do a bit of good. In fact it won't matter at all what you think of her. You'll just have to get used to her and accept her as your president for at least four years!

[noloyalisti]

What part of idiot Tea Bagging bozo zombie doesn't Airhead Palin not get?

[JV1970]

She gets it but she doesn't care what you think of her! She's ignoring you and everyone like you!

[haigeonos]

Is this the beginning of the end for the Obama regime ?

Maybe it's time to roll out the final Obama secret weapon :

Obama / Levi 2012 - The Democrat Dream Team......Yes We Can !!

Sure Win !!!

[noloyalisti]

Is anyone else completely sick and tired of these lying, stealing cheating Republicons like Palin? I don't know what is worse, a brainless, corrupt. evil Republicon or the mindless idiots who support them stealing their money from them.

These anti-democratic corporate slave Republicons need to be taken to task and taken out. Enough is enough of these idiot Republi CONS.

[JV1970]

Get used to us because our intent is to not only win the House again but in 2012 we intend to make a clean sweep of it and win the House, the Senate, and the Presidency and you'll have to put up with us for at least four years!

[bobbyboobee]

OK, but here's the thing. If she is elected she must promise she'll stay in office for the whole 4 years. And even though she doesn't read newspapers she must at least learn the names of a couple in case she's asked again.

And she must promise to let us know whenever God gives her instructions. Also she must not bring up any more stuff about American history like Paul Revere warning the British cause it only confuses people.

And please don't invent any more new words in ignorance like refudiate although we know she really thought it was a word cause she tweeted it.

Well, these few things will do for a start. We could go on for pages and pages but I think we've done well in getting her presidency started.

[JV1970]

If Obama wins another term he should learn that there are only 50 states in the union and the correct year that it is and that the word Corps is simply pronounced cor, not corpse (as in a dead body)! Obama once called the Marine Corps the Marine Corpse!

[doneinone]

If you people think Palin is and idiot look at this photo our "Embarrasment in Chief" took at the UN posing with diplomats. He did not disappoint when he broke protocol as he always does and waved in the picture looking like the foolish self he is.
Obozo is the perfect name for this clown.



http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/20/7862290-barack-obama-joins-open-government-partnership-for-group-photo

[rwsmith29456]

Good its close. Hopefully a real candidate could be nominated that would actually beat Obama. And Bachman seems to be worse than Palin.