Palin the early GOP leader for 2012

Palin 29%, Huckabee 26%, Romney 21%, Jindal 9%.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/27/cnn-poll-gop-2012-gender-gap-use-this-version/

It's obviously way too early for it to mean much - its as much a poll of name recognition as it is of strength at this point. But it has to be good news for Democrats that this is the best of what's out there so far for the GOP.

On a somewhat related note, I saw a news headline today that said "Worst GOP in 26 years". My first thought was "makes sense", followed by "wait - how are they measuring that?", followed by "they can't write that in a news article, can they?". Turns out it said "Worst GDP". But I think that's mostly a consequence from having just gone through the worst GOP for the last 8 years.