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When we visited a Palin rally in Virginia in October, we were greeted with Palin-mania. In a statement that seemed to represent the feelings of many, one woman said, “I respect John McCain, but I loooove Sarah Palin.”
That enthusiasm appears to be confined to pockets of the Republican base, because it sure as heck wasn’t found among the electorate at large yesterday. From MSNBC:
NBC-WSJ GOP pollster Neil Newhouse did a post-election survey last night, and here’s what he found: Just 12% of those surveyed believed Palin should be the GOP’s new leader; instead 29% of voters said Romney, followed by 20% who say Huckabee. Among GOPers, it was Romney 33%, Huckabee 20% and Palin 18%.
