Hays Poll Indicates Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Would Clobber Ted Stevens 59 Percent To 36 Percent In U.S. Senate Republican Nomination Race

Published: August 13, 2007, 11:37 pm

Tags: ted stevens, mark begich, ethan berkowitz, sarah palin, jake metcalfe

The Hays Research Corporation released the results of two polls taken during the past two weeks. Media reports on these polls available on Anchorage Daily News reporter Kyle Hopkins' Alaska Politics blog, and a story aired by KTUU Channel 2 Anchorage, both on August 13th, 2007.The first and most significant poll, taken from July 31-August 1, asked 500 respondents how they would choose for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination if an election were held today. The results:Sarah Palin: 59%Ted Stevens: 36%Don't Know/Refused: 5%Another question from that same poll, which was asked first and may have been used to set up the Palin-Stevens question, asked respondents to describe, using a range of choices, how they felt about Sarah Palin. Eighty-four percent of respondents stated they felt positive about Governor Palin, subdivided into 56% Very Positive and 28% Somewhat Positive.So the possibility exists that whoever commissioned the poll may have arranged for the "approval" question to be

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