NBC/WSJ: Who GOPers see as most important leader: Palin 19% Huckabee 16%

[Mr. Morden]

link:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WSJ-NBCpoll101910b.pdf

Q21: When you think about the Republican Party, what person comes to mind as its most important leader or spokesperson?

all voters:

Palin 18%
Huckabee 11%
Romney 11%
Gingrich 10%
Boehner 8%
Limbaugh 7%
Beck 6%
Paul 3%

Republicans:

Palin 19%
Huckabee 16%
Gingrich 14%
Romney 13%
Limbaugh 7%
Beck 6%
Boehner 6%
Paul 3%

On the flip side, this writeup:

link

looks at who different subsets of Republicans see as the party's most important leader, with those most strongly identifying with the Tea Party seeing Gingrich as the most important leader, and those least strongly identifying with the Tea Party seeing Romney as the most important leader:



Of course, those subsamples are going to be tiny, so take that with a grain of salt.

[Phony Moderate]

lol

[Mr. Morden]

Btw, the latter story linked to has this on Gingrich's and Romney's contrasting approaches to the Tea Party:

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[tpfkaw]

Remarkably little difference between voters at large and Republicans.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

So voters think Republicans are dense, and they actually are?

[Poundingtherock]

When NBC/WSJ talks about Republicans, they mean Republican and Republican-leaning indies.

So Palin is leading among the entire group, even independents who claim they have no lean.

It's fair to read the question, at least as it was posed to Republican and republican leaners, as a who would you support question.  it's tough to see why a republican or republican leaner would answer it differently.

[You kip if you want to...]

The GOP has no leader.

[Bull Moose Base]

Those Tea Party numbers -specifically their lack of interest in Ron Paul relative to those other names- is evidence of how little of whatever the Tea Party is is actually motivated by a passion for smaller federal government.  As opposed to a passionate objection to whatever else Obama in the White House may represent for them.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Well, it can turn out differently in time, but still.

[tpfkaw]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Are you sad because 19% of GOPhers think Sarah Palin is their most important leader, or because 81% don't?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

I really don't like Palin, so the former.

[King]

Interesting how Ron Paul doesn't even sniff the top of this list, even when narrowed down to teabaggers themselves.  I never believed Libertas' assertion that the Tea Party, though a Paul creation, still had anything to do with him, but it's nice to have data to back up that belief.

[Associate Justice PiT]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Are you sad because 19% of GOPhers think Sarah Palin is their most important leader, or because 81% don't?

     This is an important point to be made. Palin got the most responses, but it is still a small minority of the overall total. She's hardly the actual leader of the GOP.

[Poundingtherock]

Limbaugh and Beck got 13% combined.  I think it's fair to add most of that total to her total.  It's not so small once  you take out Limbaugh and Beck.