President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Trump 19% Huckabee 19% Palin 12% Romney 11% Gingrich 11%

According to the latest CNN/Opinion Research Poll.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted by telephone, with 824 people questioned. The survey’s overall sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

• Donald Trump – 19%
• Mike Huckabee – 19%
• Sarah Palin – 12%
• Mitt Romney – 11%
• Newt Gingrich – 11%
• Ron Paul – 7%
• Michele Bachmann – 5%

So, where are Donald Trump’s votes coming from – meaning at whose expense?

Trump jumped from 10 percent in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted last month, with Romney dropping from 18 percent to 11 percent.

“Are Republicans switching from Romney to Trump? Some are, but it’s a lot more complicated than that, as you would expect with 11 potential hats in the ring,” adds Holland. “Only one in five Trump supporters say that Romney would be their second choice. It looks like Trump pulls as much support from Gingrich and Palin as from Romney, and Romney’s support would go down even if Trump were not in the list of potential candidates.”

Not necessarily a good poll for Mitt Romney who earlier announced a Presidential exploratory committee, Tim Pawlenty who has already announced and Newt Gingrich who has been pseudo-running for over a year. Sarah Palin will likely not run and has been making no moves to do so.

But, who do Republican voters really want?

According to the survey, more than seven in ten Republicans say that regardless of whom they would support, they’d like to see Huckabee run for the party’s presidential nomination, with two-thirds saying the same thing about Romney.

But that figure drops to 56 percent for Trump, with 43 percent saying they don’t want to see him run. By a narrower 53 to 47 percent margin, they would like to see Palin make a bid for the White House, and by a 51 to 45 percent margin, they would like to see Gingrich run.

I would say a fresh face but if that is not available, then MIke Huckabee – if he runs.