Not that I like either of them, but I do hate one of them, can you guess who? You Betcha!
Murkowski garnered 57 percent to Palin's 33 percent; 9 percent said they were not sure.
And given the senator's popularity, Dittman says Palin would not be wise to challenge Murkowski.
Source: http://www.ktuu.com/...
The only thing is this directly contradicts the R2K poll reported by Kos here: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 12/15-17. Likely voters. MoE 4% (MoE 5% for Republican over-sample) (No trend lines).
Republican Primaries
Senate
Murkowski 31
Palin 55
House At-Large Seat
Young 33
Parnell 27
Harris 11
Undecided 29
I do wonder what's going on here... has something happened recently to drive down Palin's favorables amongst Alaskans? I would trust the R2K poll a priori over a poll from this Ditman guy. I wonder if this is a Murkowski sponsored poll. This "analysis" by the poll author makes me wonder:
"And I think there would be a feeling, too, of overreaching -- going too far, too aggressive, too much too soon -- if Sarah decided to run for Senate," Dittman said. "When you've already got someone there with seniority, who most people think is doing a good job, I think it would be a huge mistake."
I'm not sure who the potential democrats are for this seat, but I'm sure they'll start at least as a 2:1 underdog to the Republican nominee. Still, whatever happens we do have a democrat occupying the former Stevens seat for 6 years, so that will keep me happy about Alaska for a while.
By the way, the end of the article has this little dig, with no detail
A poll commissioned last month by the Web site dailykos.com showed Palin beating Murkowski 55 to 31 percent, although local pollster Dittman says he has concerns about the methods used to arrive at those numbers.
I'm sure those concerns can be summed up as: "dailykos", even though r2k+daily kos has show to be one of the most accurate pollsters this cycle.