From Conservatives for Palin:
This week’s Economist/YouGov poll finds Governor Palin leading the 2012 presidential race:
Sarah Palin 28%
Mitt Romney 18%
Newt Gingrich 17%
Mike Huckabee 13%
Mitch Daniels 4%
Tim Pawlenty 1%
Mike Pence 1%
Haley Barbour 1%
John Thune 1%
No preference 17%
Curiously, neither Jindal nor Christie is listed – and those two governors are the only people, I think, who can de-rail a Palin run for the GOP nomination (Christie much more than Jindal, at the moment, but if Jindal keeps up the passion he’s been showing of late, then he could become just as formidable on the trail as Christie).
Clearly, though, Palin’s use of donations and endorsements coupled with her so-far dead-on use of Facebook and Twitter to intervene in the national debate has paid off. It really now just comes down to, will she run? I simply don’t know – she’s doing what she needs to lay the ground work, but she’s also keeping just far enough away from the fire to keep all of her options on the table.
What she is doing is allowing herself the time time to come in only when she really wants to. Someone like Gingrich or Daniels will have to be pretty clear about it no later than, say, February of 2011 – they will have to start building up the national infrastructure to run. Palin’s already done that – she can now wait until even September of 2011, the deadline for filing in the New Hampshire primary. This allows her to sit back, choose her moment, build up tension and expectation and then do a huge, razzle-dazzle entry in to the race.
We’ll see how it comes out – but one thing to keep in mind: she’s probably one of the smartest people in American politics today. I know, the left (and even some of the “ruling class” right) have tagged her as a dummy…but that is because they, themselves, are idiots. Mark my words on this – she’s got depth upon depth of insight her opponents don’t even suspect her of.
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