we take a look at leading republicans discussed as 2012 presidential candidates. the president is ahead of might tell romitt romney. let s move to sarah palin, leading by a whopping 22 points, obama is 55, palin is 33. what do you make of these leads? how do you interpret them? well, i think if the economy is not doing well, almost any major republican whose last name isn t palin would have a fair chance at least a fair chance of beating him. but the thing is, with sarah palin, it s almost like a no-fly zone. her negatives are so, so, so high. and the nbc wall street judicial poll it was 28% positive, 50% negative and 20% neutral. in the gallup poll wibt was 40 favorable, 52. but here is one way to look at it. in the gallup numbers, 81% of republicans viewed sarah palin positively. but it was only 30% among