Yeah, Sarah Palin isn’t running.
“Does a title shackle a person? Are they — someone like me, maverick, you know, I do go rogue, and I call it like I see it, and I don’t mind stirring it up…. is a title and is a campaign too shackling? Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of the box, not allowing handlers to shape me?”
I no longer watch or listen to her because her voicemail is like nails on a chalkboard, but even reading her quotes gives me headaches.
Meanwhile, a new Pew survey finds that 52% of the American people have confidence in President Obama in handling the deficit. Only 35% have the same confidence in the GOP to handle the issue.
In Pennsylvania, a new Quinipiac poll is out. Among its findings, Pennsylvanians oppose by a wide margin (52 to 40%) the Republican plan to change the way its electoral votes are allocated. 57% say the Republican plan is just a power grab to help their presidential candidates rather than a plan to better reflect the will of the voters. Even Republicans are split, with only 48% saying they should change the system.
In the Republican presidential primary race, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has 18 percent, with 16 percent for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, 12 percent for former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, 8 percent for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and no other candidate, including Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, above 6 percent.
President Obama leads all current GOP candidates: Obama gets 45 percent to 43 percent for Romney, leads Perry 46 – 40 percent, and beats Santorum 45 – 42 percent.