Palin vs Obama 2012 Poll: Palin Would Lose By 8 Points To Pres. Obama

Washington — Voters don’t think President Obama deserves a second turn – but they don’t want Sarah Palin either, according to a new Quinnipiac University survey.

Obama leads the former vice presidential candidate by 8 percentage points in the survey, but is in a statistical dead heat with Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.

That news may come as a shock to Palin who told Barbara Walters in an interview set to air Dec. 9 on ABC that she believed she could beat Obama in 2012.

“I believe I could,” she told Walters.

That comment was met with near-panic by both sides – Republicans who believe if she got the party’s nomination she would be trampled and Democrats who fear she could win.