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The 2012 presidential election is still a long way away, and Sarah Palin hasn't even decided if she will make a run for the White House, but a second straight poll brings troubling results for the former Alaska governor if she does launch a bid.

An ABC News/Washington Post poll indicates that nearly six in ten Americans say they wouldn't even consider voting for Palin if she runs. Eight percent of the people questioned in the survey, which was released Friday, say they would definitely back Palin in 2012 if she runs and 31 percent say they would consider supporting her.

The 59 percent who flatly rule out Palin is 16 points higher than the 43 percent in the survey who say they wouldn't consider voting to re-elect President Barack Obama in 2012. It's also 17 points higher than the 42 percent of the public who said they wouldn't vote for then Sen. HIllary Clinton in the last presidential election.

The poll also indicates that 27 percent of people voted for the John McCain-Palin ticket in the 2008 election, as well as nearly three in ten Republicans and four in ten conservatives, and four in ten evangelical white Protestants say they wouldn't consider Palin for president.

According to the poll, Obama leads Palin 54 to 39 percent in a hypothetical matchup if the 2012 presidential election were held today.

The ABC News/Washington Post survey comes a day and a half after the release of an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that indicated Obama leads Palin by 22 points in a hypothetical general election showdown. Obama's advantage over Palin in the two new polls is larger than in other recent surveys.

The NBC/WSJ poll also indicated that Palin's negative rating has climbed to 50 percent, higher than anyone else measured in the poll.

The ABC/Washington Post poll was conducted Dec. 9-12, with 1,001 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds: 39% say she is ready to serve as president if needed, 33% say she isn't, and 29% have no opinion. That's the lowest vote of confidence in a running mate since the elder George Bush chose then-Indiana senator Dan Quayle to join his ticket in 1988. In comparison, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden was seen as qualified by 57%-18% after Democrat Barack Obama chose him as a running mate last week.

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Palin’s 23 percent favorability rating in Monday’s CBS News poll is nearly identical to the 24 percent favorability rating she registered in mid-July, soon after she announced that she would step down from her post as governor of Alaska. Palin received a 38 percent unfavorable rating in the CBS poll released this week.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Monday showed that Palin is viewed favorably by only 43 percent with 52 percent holding an unfavorable view of the former governor. Fifty-three percent in the poll said they “definitely would not” vote for Palin if she ran in 2012 and 60 percent she is not qualified to serve as president.

In a CNN/Opinion Research poll also released Monday, only 28 percent of those poll said Palin is qualified to be president. But among Republicans, 54 percent said Palin is qualified to be president.

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Sarah Palin has upped her national profile in recent weeks, but a new poll shows that the extra attention hasn't done her any favors. In the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, the amount of people with a favorable view of Palin has dropped to its lowest point ever recorded by the pollster. More than 70% of respondents said she's not qualified to be president.

Palin's numbers don't improve much when just Republicans are asked to give their opinion of her, the poll found. The Post reports just 45% of conservatives consider Palin qualified to move into the Oval Office. Last November, 66% of conservatives said she was qualified.

Only 37 percent of Republicans have a "strongly favorable" view of Palin. Among all Americans, her overall favorable/unfavorable split is 37/55, the lowest it's been since ABC and the Post added her to national polls in Sept. 2008, when John McCain made Palin his running mate on the GOP ticket.

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Ms Palin's unfavorables are much higher than those for any of the Democratic candidates in 2006. Hillary Clinton, whose 40% unfavorable rating was deemed by many at the time to render her candidacy moot, had a favourable/unfavourable margin of +9%; Ms Palin's is -9%. The only potential Republican presidential candidate more unpopular than Ms Palin would appear to be Jeb Bush, who no doubt has his brother to thank.

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The figures are in and it reads: Sarah Palin Not So Popular At The Polls. Her own party backs her but even 20% of those see her as unfavorable. In a general election she will not fare so well. Back in 2008, the independent and swing voters did not back her and will not in the next election. More Americans view her in a negative light (47 percent) than a positive one (44 percent). What's more, only nine percent of Americans haven't formed an opinion of the former Alaska governor, making it difficult for her to correct that deficit.

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In a new Quinnipiac poll of GOP 2012 front-runners, Palin would lose a head-to-head matchup with Obama, if it were held today.

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The latest poll numbers for Sarah Palin show that her fans are conservative men, and women of all stripes despise her.

The key stat in the Sarah Palin poll numbers is that 74% of all US women – including 50% of Republican women – think Palin isn’t qualified to be president.

In addition, 66% of all men and 40% of GOP males think Palin isn’t qualified to be President either.

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A Wall Street Journal-NBC poll finds that Palin would lose a hypothetical presidential election against Obama by 33 to 55 percent. Even after Palin's already rough year of polling, pundits are treating these two new batches as exceptional: nails in the coffin of her 2012 presidential hopes.

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