Even though the polls for the 2012 election won’t open for three years, Republicans are preparing for the resurgence of their party.
A CNN/Opinion Research poll released last week confirms what pundits have been saying since early October: Sarah Palin is the GOP’s sweetheart for 2012.
But now she’s got some competition.
The poll puts John McCain’s former running mate, along with Mike Huckabee, the dark horse favorite in the early Presidential primaries, in a dead heat. While the two are both fighting to reinvent the disenchanted party, the numbers are interesting.
Huckabee is doing well with conservative women while Palin is collecting support of the men; both seek the evangelical vote, but the former minister is the heavy favorite with Christians and Palin is controlling the older demographic.
There was a great deal of chatter following President-elect Obama’s victory. The GOP analysts, pundits and party leaders humbly conceded the GOP’s need to “soul-search” and re-envision their path back to Washington.
However, while Huckabee and Palin may represent the ‘core’ conservative values that Republican leaders seem to believe lost them the election, 53 percent of these Conservatives did NOT vote for John McCain, who shifted his ‘Maverick’ reputation in both ideology and rhetoric to pander to this very community.
