And 69% (correctly) state she helped the McCain ticket:
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republican voters say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin helped John McCain’s bid for the presidency, even as news reports surface that some McCain staffers think she was a liability.
Only 20% of GOP voters say Palin hurt the party’s ticket, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Six percent (6%) say she had no impact, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
Ninety-one percent (91%) of Republicans have a favorable view of Palin, including 65% who say their view is Very Favorable. Only eight percent (8%) have an unfavorable view of her, including three percent (3%) Very Unfavorable.
When asked to choose among some of the GOP’s top names for their choice for the party’s 2012 presidential nominee, 64% say Palin. The next closest contenders are two former governors and unsuccessful challengers for the presidential nomination this year — Mike Huckabee of Arkansas with 12% support and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts with 11%.
Three other sitting governors – Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Charlie Crist of Florida and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota – all pull low single-digit support.
As readers know, I’m a Jindal fan – but Palin is my very, very close second choice for 2012…and Palin/Jindal, Jindal/Palin is pretty much “same/same” for me. We’ve got the best of the best for our future prospects, while the Democrats have Obama and absolutely nothing else. We might lose in 2012, but that will be the last time for a while that we lose. Unless the Democrats clone Obama and Obama is an entirely unexpected success (meaning that for the first time in human history, liberalism works).
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