Ryan Streeter
I know PPP isn't a Republican pollster (a reader once wrote to make sure we're aware of that, hence the caveat), but I found this from Tom Jensen today to be pretty interesting:
In Iowa two different polls this week found that Palin is a distant third in Iowa. We found her 15 points behind Mike Huckabee with 15% support and Neighborhood Research found her 13 points behind Huckabee with only 11% support. In New Hampshire our most recent poll found her in a tie for third place at 10% with Newt Gingrich, 30 points behind Mitt Romney. A Magellan Strategies poll last week found her with a similarly larger deficit, in second place at 16%, 23 points behind Romney. In Nevada she's been in second place in one of our recent surveys and in third place in another, but at any rate she's running double digits behind Romney. And in Florida our most recent poll found her in a distant fourth place at only 13%, 10 points behind Huckabee, 8 behind Romney, and 5 behind Gingrich.
He goes on to point out that we have all kinds of examples with people not polling well this far out, who surge closer to voting day. But they're usually relatively unknown this far out. That's why, for someone with Palin's name recognition, these figures are especially interesting.
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