Poll: GOP heavyweight Sarah Palin would lose in 2012 election against President Barack Obama
"Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin may still be making news headlines, but the U.S. electorate has news for her. If the 2012 presidential election were held today and she were the Republican candidate, Palin would not defeat President Barack Obama. In fact, the president would win the election by a considerable margin."
"If the 2012 presidential election were held today, and Palin was the GOP candidate, she’d get wiped out by President Obama, a new Marist poll showed Tuesday.
Only 33% of registered voters would go for Palin compared to Obama’s 56%, with 11% undecided.
Obama would pull in 92% of Democrats and Palin would get 73% of Republicans.
The President would clean Palin’s clock among amost all voting groups.
Independents would go 49% to 34% for Obama, according to the poll of 854 registered voters with a margin of error of 3.5%.
Men went for Obama 54% to 36% and women by a wider margin: 58% to 30%.
Whites favored Obama 50% to 40%, African-Americans by 99% to 1%, and Latinos 62% to 27%.
The only region where Palin held Obama under 50% was the South -- where Obama had 49% to 38% margin.
This is from the "Horse's mouth"
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