Vote: How much would Sarah Palin's endorsement matter in the race for the GOP presidential nom.?

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/

How much would Sarah Palin's endorsement matter in the race for the GOP presidential nomination?

Not at all 69% 99672
A little 22% 31803
A lot 9% 12523

Total votes: 143998

[tridim]

1. Kiss of death IMO.

She's double-plus toxic now.

[JuniperLea]

9. That's how I see it...

If anything, she's getting calls from Pubbie candidates who are trying to piss her off so she WON'T endorse them!

Kiss. Of. Death.

[OHdem10]

2. She still has sway with RR and parts of TeaParty. Therefore,

she still has some influence.

[polmaven]

4. RR?

Is that Religious Right???

[msongs]

3. she will endorse when it is clear she will make the most $$ from doing so nt

[Vincardog]

5. Her endorsement would mean less than the endorsement of a real hooker.

[gratuitous]

6. Matter positively or matter negatively for the endorsee?

I'm running the the 9% on this one: It will matter a lot, but not in the way the recipient of her endorsement might want.

[RZM]

7. Not much. Most endorsements don't matter a whole lot

It's something that people might factor in, but I think it's the candidate themselves and their positions that determine who votes for them or doesn't.

It's a part of the larger picture, but usually only a small part.

[louis-t]

8. A whole lot less than she thinks.

[SheilaT]

10. There's going to be a tiny core of her most ardent

supporters who will care.

And I suspect there's some relatively fixed percentage of voters who make decisions based on endorsements. I sometimes do when it's local races I otherwise don't know much about. But in the end, I doubt that very many vote for a particular presidential nominee based on any endorsement of any kind.