Fox News Poll: Which Republican Could Beat Obama?
Monday, November 09, 2009
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According to Bill O’Reilly’s week long poll it is Governor Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin: 30%
Huckabee: 29%
Romney: 25%
Gingrich:16%
I find it odd that the numbers were only announced by Mr O’Reilly and not released. I would say the results are actually much better for Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin typically has a much larger margin of victory against the three respectable but boring Huckabee, Romney & Gingrich. But a win is still a win.
As Huckabee works his way through a 22-state tour for his new book, “A Simple Christmas,” he knows that he and the book will be almost entirely overshadowed by Gov. Sarah Palin’s two-week barnstorming tour for her forthcoming memoir.
Palin is the party’s rock star (Cafepress claims to have 1 million separate Sarah Palin themed items).
“Some of the people who had excoriated me and really been very dismissive of me for views that I had taken, and labeled me anything from a populist to an ignoramus — the same people have been very defensive [of] and laudatory to Sarah Palin,” Huckabee noted, adding that he’d invited her to appear on his weekly Fox show but “could never get any contact.”
“I’m glad she’s getting the props — I know I’m not nearly as attractive,” he said with a guileless grin.
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