Romney leads Huckabee, Palin in early poll

A new survey by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, shows Mitt Romney with a narrow lead over Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin among Republicans as their choice for president in 2012.

The "next-in-line" in a party which almost always nominates the "next-in-line," Romney nevertheless will have to weather what figures to be a major storm over the similarities between the health care plan he had passed when he was governor of Massachusetts and Obamacare. And candidates like Tim Pawlenty and Mitch Daniels, whom I suspect will be much heard-from before the next Republican nominee is crowned, are at present not well enough known by rank-and-file Republicans to register in the polls.

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