Gallup: Palin Tops The GOP's Dream Ticket

Sarah Palin continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. The poll is, of course, meaningless. We haven't even gotten to Jan 20th, let alone serious thoughts about 2012. Polls like this also rely heavily on name recognition. Nonetheless, Gallup sez:

Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are most interested in seeing Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee run for the party's presidential nomination in 2012. Those three received the highest scores among the 10 possible candidates evaluated in a recent Gallup Panel survey.

Given that a contemporaneous poll (the exit poll) says:

and Gallup at the beginning of the month says :

the Republicans have not gotten serious about understanding where they went wrong.

Did you notice that Republicans are different than everyone else? They haven't.