(CNN) - As former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin prepares to launch the next step of her political career, a new survey suggests nearly one in three Americans think it'd be best if the onetime GOP vice presidential candidate stayed home - and one in five would like to see her on another presidential ticket.
According to the new Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll, 32 percent of Americans - a plurality - think the best job for Palin is to become a homemaker while 17 percent say Palin is well suited to become a television talk show host. That was followed by 14 percent who say she should become the next vice president, 10 percent who think she'd be a good college professor, and 6 percent who say president is the best job for her.
Limited to Republican voters only, a plurality (27 percent) say she should be vice president, 18 percent say homemaker, 14 percent think talk show host, 12 percent say president, and 7 percent think college professor.
The Alaska Republican officially relinquished her post as governor on Sunday, 15 months before the term was set to end. Palin has said she plans to spend the next year and a half writing a book and campaigning for conservative candidates across the country.
The poll, which was conducted entirely before her weekend farewell speech, also suggests her disapproval rating has increased 6 points to 51 percent from a similar poll last spring.
When it comes to the 2012 GOP race for the White House, Palin comes in third place (17 percent) behind former Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney (22 percent) and Mike Huckabee (21 percent). A spokesman for Palin has said the former governor has no specific plans to run for president.
The new survey shows similar results to those of a recent CNN poll that also indicated the same three are in a close race for 2012 GOP frontrunner status.
The poll surveyed 900 registered voters from July 21-22 and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Whatever she does, I hope she stays in Alaska,
Seriously this woman needs to go away already...beat it!!!! You will neva be president...
So the poll about Sarah Palin Staying home is 1 person out of three wants her too, so that means two out of three wants her out there so more people want to see her than do not. So that should have been said as follows, 2 out of 3 people want to see Sarah Palin and only 1 out of three wants her to stay home, if you are going to state the facts of these so called polls, please do so correctly, unless what you said in this article is wrong and then you are lying about this poll.
Honestly, who really cares!
And any poll that FOX news does isnt really an accurate poll at all. The only people who watch or listen to fox are those with minimal education and limited intellectual curiosities.
Hopefully the GOP and Sarah Palin will follow the poll figures and not blind emotion that will lose elections...and tell Sarah to stay home. The percentage of people who want her for President is about the same percent that would like Ralph Nader as President.....and we all know where that went!
Sarah Palin's greatest service to the country she constantly spouts out about loving so much would be..........stay out of office.
*praying to Sarah Palins God*
Please God, make Sarah Palin stay home and take care of her kids.
-Amen
"she has no specific plans to run for president"...but she will keep everyone "guessing" and will therefore be front and center for all criticism she deserves. Her playing the victim of the media is old. Someone should tell her to stop as each time she brings it up, the only people she gets sympathy from are the ditto head lemmings that worship the ground she walks on. The rest grow increasingly cynical and tag her as thin skinned and unsuitable for any public office.
laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing, oops, fell off my chair, laughing, college professor? laughing, laughing, laughing.
Palin is just like Obama – an inexperienced, rank amateur trying to play in the big leagues. Just look at the generational damage Obama is doing to our country and that is exactly why Palin needs to stay home.
This is a hoot!! All too absurd to contemplate. This really underscores why the terms "smart" and "republican" should never be in the same sentence.
Did anybody see William Shatner's beat poetry presentation of Palin's farewell speech on Conan?
Priceless – Just priceless!
JUST STAY HOME SARAH!
We on the East Coast don't like your divisive and ignorant talk.
Ya know, if ya read the comments that are posted on YOUR POLITCAL TICKER!!!! you would already know this and you would not need a stupid poll. And make no mistake, YOUR POLL IS STUPID!
I believe Sarah is way more suited to be President than what's his name who became President. She has better sense than to spend, spend, spend. That man believes he IS Uncle Sam. This country needs someone who knows what they are doing. Sarah is THE ONE.
College professor??? Hahahahahahah!!! Have a nice day!
College professor? HAHAHAHA what would she teach? Stupidity 101?
I cannot believe that there are actually Republicans who think this woman should be a "college professor!" First and foremost Don't you have to have a brain to teach anything. As I recall she couldn't name a
magazine that she has read. Anyone who had to attend 5 different colleges to get a degree should reconsider joining the educational field. She isn't smart enough to teach anything but how to kill animals from helicopters. She should learn how to cook normal food and raise her kids to not have sex without being married first. She has another female child coming along. Her days of politics should be over. But of course she is a "Pig with lipstick" so I guess she won't
be hunting pigs.
I think she would make a great science professor. LOL j/k!!
and they want barney frank to keep his mouth shut , they want nit wit nancy to leave , they want harry ried to be a black jack dealer in vegas too. americans all so want to be thin , have a perfect body and lots of money,,,,,like palin not going to happen....
There's no accuracy in polling the Fox Noise echo chamber. Yep, she's a regular star there, but in a national election, she'd be road kill.
Teach what?
I defy CNN to go one week without a mention of this individual. She is now just a private citizen. She neither makes nor implements policy at ANY level. Her opinion carries no more weight than the next person's. Unless and until she demonstrates greater insight or wisdom into today's challenges further attention to her opinions is unwarranted.
We have seen this five different times now CNN and I think Republicans and Democrats all agree. Unless you are pandering for more Democratic hate speech lets move on.
please, please, please let her stay in the national spotlight for the next three years...we democrats need her to ensure Obama is re-elected and the stand-up comics need the steady flow of material.
How ignorant are Americans? 10 percent think Palin would make a good college professor, hello!, you have to have gone to college and hold at least a Masters degree to do any teaching at that level. Did she even finish high school?
17 percent think she'd make a good talk show host? What? The woman can't formulate a complete sentence, let alone one that makes any sense. Just listen to her exit speech when she resigned as governor. What's the IQ of Alaska?
And another 16 percent think she should be the VP or the President?
This country is getting dumber by the minute.
She should stay isolated form society for the good of all mankind. Buh-bye Caribou Barbie. Your dreamhouse is in shambles like your inner soul. Thanks for playing craziest politico to hit the stage and quickly fade in to nothingness.
Yep 900 voters is a real career breaker for Palin.
I hope this woman is out there as much as possible. She's the gift that keeps on giving. So YES, keep her out there.
Didn't a plurality of Americans also think it was smart of Obama to bail out GM and Chrysler? That was just "STUPID" and look how well it went! But that was only $50 billion. Americans are a forgiving bunch though, so now we are talking about giving him 20 times that for ObamaCare. It will do as much for lowering health care costs as the $50 billion did for keeping the automakers out of bankruptcy.
I would love to see Sarah Palin debate President Obama in 2012. She had to practice, practice, practice to debate Vice President Joe Biden, and the only thing we got out of that was "Say it aint so Joe", "Joe six pack" and "Soccer Moms". It would be very interesting to see her meet with leaders of other countries and deliever anything of substance.
Sarah should raise her kids and stay far, far away from the spot light of office. Maybe, Senator John McCain should have a serious talk with her and let her know that he made a mistake and he regrets putting her on the ticket (since it cost him the election).
It is disappointing to me that American people don't appreciate someone who took on the job (with great fanfares!) and then quit midway because job is difficult and boring.
I adore Palin and would love greatly if she stays in GOP politics forever! The ditzier the better!
No No, Not a Good Idea.....
If Palin stays home, her husband will make more babies.....
That is not the Republicans want Palin to do.....
I think she should join fox news gang, there she would be at home and all fo them together could throw out there hate and you better send Lou Dobbs over there too. CNN should be ashamed to have him on their net work.
College professor? What, were astronaut, cowgirl and ballerina all taken? Have a nice day!
Her ONLY supporters are the right wing fringe hate groups (that includes all the republicans).
Palin would be a good talk show host on Fox news, someone in her family has to pay the bills, and apparently no one else in the family is working
What about the percentage that wants her to slip into obscurity, never to be heard from again? I'm in that percentage. Na na na na, na na na na, he-e-ey, goodbye.
Palin is a red-neck, same as Bush, and both are dumb as a box of rocks.
And after 8 years of Bush destroying our country who with any brains would want Palin in charge of anything.
She's ignorant.
College professor? That's FUNNY!
She can't put three words together to make a sentence.
How interesting – even a Faux poll says only 12% think she should be President. Let us do the math – 12% of the 24% of people who say they are Republican – oh yeah – not too many votes there.
Another word for plurality is a minority, but being the race conscious site that CNN is, they don't feel it is appropriate to call someone a minority.
I think she should be in the House too or the Senate. Why should she or any woman stay home? She is smart, attractive and dynamic woman who may be the one to lead the Republicans back. Who knows at this point? The media should leave her alone for sure. Be fair to her.
I don't think they have in the past.
I cannot believe the hate that is spewing from people. Don't like Sarah Palin, that is fine, but people are talking about her children. Additionally, people should wake up - not everyone was as privileged as Obama and got sent to a boarding school by his rich grandparents. The majority of people in the US went to many different institutions to receive a degree. Come on people, lets be intelligent about our comments.
two words: journalistic diarrhea
Or she could visit her neighbors in Russia.
If I never see this idots face again, it will be too soon.
I'd like to see her join NASA. They could send her to Mars.
Look, I have said repeatedly. Palin would be great if she took a non-political position. I would be interested to see her put her degree, Journalism to work. I would be interested in seeing her cover the levels of dishonesty of our media, and she could do it from a Conservative point of view. Lets get imaginative. Republicans know good and darn well they will not put her up in 2012.
If I never see this idiots face again, it will be too soon.
On a similar note, it appears that 40% of Americans would like Barack Obama to GO home:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 32% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8.
Her speeches are incoherent and not at all cogent and articulate. One wonders if she needs some prep. classes in speakin' and perhaps writin'. We also opine that compared to Hillary, she will be nowhere near the final list of repubs. runnin' for 2012.
I think she would make a great teacher of being a loudmouth who is addicted to the spotlight and distorts the truth at every turn.
Why is CNN so obsessed with Sarah Palin?
The far left has such a brain-numbing fear of Sarah Palin and Christian Conservatives, they spend all their time in hate filled dialogue trashing both and advising them to leave the country. Guess what? Both will be back. If for no other reason, somebody has to supply the tax money to support the don't work and won't work crowd that has it's hand out for other people's money.
Wow, 10% say Professor, 6% president, and 14% VP?? There's the 30% of our country that makes us all look like idiots to the rest of the world. Thank you....
Cool. Of course, a plurality of Americans also say that they disagree with Obama's policies and wish he would go home.
Gee... Be a homemaker or be President? Hmm... What to do??? How will poor Sarah ever make up her mind?
What kind of delusional person:
a) put "become a college professor" in that poll
and/or
b) chose that option in the poll?
Honestly? The woman couldn't put together a coherent thought regarding the stimulus last fall, couldn't name *one* *single* Supreme Court decision with which she disagreed, and couldn't even name a *single* printed news source that she read...
She was barely qualified to be the mayor of Wasilla and governor of Alaska, wasn't qualified in the least to be VP of the US, but people are talking about her becoming a professor? Seriously-this poll is clearly an early 2010 April Fool's joke from FoxNews.
Cool! I can play CNN's highly biased semantic game! A "plurality" of people want me to be the next president. Plurality = a number greater than one.
I don't think Sarah Palin is presidential material or congressional or senatorial material either. But then, there are a few others in congress that aren't any better than her – Bachman, Coryn, Cantor to name a few and they managed to get elected. I guess if the people that elect you are dumber than you are you can make it to Washington. The way things are going in Washington right now with all the crazies, it's like our national circus with clowns galore. She'd probably fit right in with some of them.
Well i have to say the news media is definitely dogging palin out.
Speaking as an educated Republican, I believe it is safe to say the 7 percent of Republicans and 10 percent overall that believe Palin should be a college professor never attended college.
Palin is one of the dumbest person I've ever seen in politics............crying and complaining about everyhing.
Sarah and Phoenix could start their own show called,"The Biggest Political Losers".hahaha
Any person who after being introduced to the American public as a VP candidate and says, "the war in Iraq was a mission from God"....deserves everything that happens to her.
Imagine where we would be as a nation right now if "this one" actually won, and McCain with his age had to step down and she was the president.........
and for all the people who claim that the president "bowed" to the Saudi King (as one should do when they meet royalty), at least he didn't hold hands while walking and kiss the king on the cheek like they were going to the Sadie Hawkins dance together......
I really love how insane the democrats all get over Palin. You must all have some raw, exposed nerves on subjects she is passionate about. Such as respecting the rights of the unborn perhaps?
Republicans go to church to repent, sorry you don't have anywhere to go where you feel comfortable.
Okay, we get it.
A plurality of media outlets won't be happy until they have destroyed the only current viable political personality that rivals the worshipped one.
Whoever said they would love to see Palin debate Obama in 2012 – if Obama's teleprompter fell over, he wouldn't be able to ad lib. As Biden said "What would he do?" I feel Palin has a lot more smarts than people think – after all, she was a Governor and managed the state of Alaska, more than Obama had ever done and look what a mess he has our country in now – leading us into Socialism, stirring up racism with his last comment about the police "stupidly" handing that case. I can't think of a thing he has done well. He's just a pretty face and speaks well (but with forked tongue).
Let's remember that all she did was give a couple of electrifying speeches at the beginning of the campaign. These speeches were written by someone else and delivered using the dreaded teleprompter. When left to her own devices, she bombed in various interviews where her lack of knowledge was obvious. The only interviews she did fairly well was with Hannity. Of course, he acted and looked like a love struck high school teenager (no disrespect to high school teenagers)and threw only softball questions her way. As C&W singer Roy Clark sang in one of his songs-"Thank God and Greyhound She's Gone".
Hey, hey everyone. WE have the POWER to make her really go away!
That is IF you really want her and her incoherent statements to end!
STOP posting on her... plain and simple.
I will as of right now... you betcha!
I'm done wasting my time on this marshmallow!
Ever since the last election Sarah Palin seems to thinks she's royalty....needless to say she was the jester that gave us all a good laugh. She really needs to get over herself...she's not important.
Be best for her to just stay out of politics and stay home, being a grandma sitting for the grand kids. She's only looking for the green money not for the interest of the people. who cares!