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Is it too late for Sarah Palin to get into the race? Pundits will disagree.
But, according to yesterday’s Fox poll, voters have begun to move on and would answer the question another way: Who cares, because she shouldn’t run anyway.
While the immediate headline from the poll was that Perry had overtaken Romney in a big way as the frontrunner, the more unexpected finding was just how broad-based the opposition to a Palin candidacy was.
Most interesting was that two-thirds of Tea Partiers thought Palin should not run. And nearly 80% of women said she should not run.
Here are the percentages of people who said that Sarah Palin should not run:
- Republicans: 71%
- Democrats: 80%
- Independents: 66%
- Tea Party: 66%
- Men: 71%
- Women: 77%
- White: 72%
- Non-white: 81%
- College degree: 76%
- No college: 72%
- Under 35: 74%
- Age 35-54: 73%
- Age 55+: 75%
- Age 65+: 76%
- Under $50k: 72%
- $50k+: 76%
- Liberals: 77%
- Moderates: 75%
- Conservative: 72%
These final numbers are most illuminating. Normally, in such polls, there is a pretty big difference between the views of liberals and conservatives. But in the case of Sarah Palin, there’s more agreement among liberals and conservatives than one might think that Sarah Palin should just stop now.
It’s just one poll. But the writing is on the wall: don’t run, Sarah. Your day has passed.
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