Poll shows Palin leading potential Alaska Senate primary

[DonViejo]

If she decides to challenge Democratic Sen. Mark Begich in 2014, Palin has an edge in the Republican primary

BY JILLIAN RAYFIELD

Sarah Palin is an early front-runner in a potential Republican primary matchup for the 2014 Alaska senatorial race, according to a new poll by the GOP firm Harper Polling.

According to the poll, Palin would get 32 percent of the vote, followed by Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell who would get 30 percent. Twenty-four percent said they are not sure, while only 14 percent said they’d vote for Joe Miller, the Tea Party candidate who failed to oust Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in 2010.

Both Treadwell and Miller have formed exploratory committees for the race, which is to unseat Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, who is up for reelection. The poll finds that in a head-to-head matchup of just Treadwell and Miller, Treadwell would lead 45-26 percent.

The poll was conducted for the Tea Party Leadership Fund, which is pushing for Palin to run.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/05/13/poll_shows_palin_leading_potential_alaska_senate_primary/

[onehandle]

1. Never gonna happen. Too many skeletons... out of her closet. Imagine what's still in there.

And it doesn't pay show biz bucks.

[a kennedy]

12. and I thought Mark Sanford wouldn't win either....

Can't she just go away??

[Politicalboi]

2. The stupid still shines bright in Alaska

I was talking to my brother who voted for Obama, that the GOP would run her in a heartbeat. He thinks Chris Crisco will change to a Dem and run in 2016. I told him the Dems don't pick the dumbs like the GOP does. So I don't think Crisco stands a chance as a Dem. And his mouth can't be fixed.

[Arctic Dave]

3. Not going to happen.

As fun as it would be, palin doesn't have support in Alaska anymore.

Treadwell is going to run.

[Parable Arable]

4. Not sure if Alasaka is any less Conservative than it was in 08 but......

I pray to whatever probable deity that exists, that this woman doesn't get elected to the senate. As much as I disdain the Ryan's and Romney's of the world, I disdain people like Palin, Bachman, and Gohmert to an even greater degree.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. If she's the Repub candidate,

Mark's got it in the bag.

[Sheepshank]

6. personally, I think Alaskans would consider on a much deeper level

if Palin would actually be running. It's easy for so many to say on a whim they would vote for her....but when reality is at play, there would be very many that will recall the fiascot of the 1/2 term governor.

[Cha]

7. The question is.. if elected would she even serve

3 years?

[emulatorloo]

9. Exactly, what guarantees are there that she won't quit.

[muntrv]

8. Will Lady Blah Blah even serve half of a 6 year senate term?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. A teaparty baloney poll

[jmowreader]

11. Electing Palin to the Senate would be like getting a tattoo of a dick on your forehead

It didn't seem like a good idea at the time, and now you can't get rid of it.

I don't know the percentage of teabaggers to non-teabaggers in Alaska's Republican population, but rational Alaskans remember that Palin quit halfway before her term was over and she was corrupt as the day is long. Palin will never actually run for office not because she has skeletons in her closet (everyone does), but because several of Palin's skeletons are punishable by long stints in a rented cell in Arizona.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Our Republicans are mostly of the oil-shill variety,

not Teabaggers.

[Marrah_G]

14. People are nuts if they elect her

She already quite the last job they elected her to.

[bluedigger]

15. Who do they like in 2017?