If Joe Miller wins the Republican nomination it will have little to do with Sarah Palin's endorsement. So there!

According to Public Policy Polling:

Contrary to the media spin on the surprise results of last Tuesday’s GOP Senate primary in Alaska, former Governor Sarah Palin did not seem to have a decisive influence on Joe Miller’s apparent victory over incumbent Lisa Murkowski (barring absentee ballot counts). If anything, her impact was minimal, with 65% of those who reported voting in the primary saying Palin’s endorsement had no bearing whatsoever on their vote. Only 15% said it was very important, and 20% somewhat important. In fact, a 39% plurality said that Palin’s endorsement in general makes no difference on who they support, with 35% saying it actually makes them less likely to support her endorsee and only 26% saying it makes them more likely.

Feelings on Miller and Palin do, however, seem to correlate, with both getting 51-40 personal favorability marks. Murkowski, meanwhile, has only a tepid 48-46.

As well as voters liking Miller more than Murkowski, the main thrust of his narrow win seems to have come from the ideology of the voters and the perceived ideologies of the candidates. 59% are conservatives, to only 37% moderates—actually less conservative than the GOP primary electorates in some other states. But 53% support the goals of the Tea Party movement, and Miller hitched every limb of his body to that Express. Indeed, a 47% plurality view Murkowski as too liberal, something only 7% say of Miller, whose views are seen as “about right” by a 51% majority, with only 33% saying he is too conservative. 38% think Murkowski’s ideology “about right.” Only slightly fewer, 34%, see the Republican Party itself as too liberal, than the 35% who see it is “about right.”

“Sarah Palin can claim credit for putting Joe Miller on the map, but not for carrying him to victory, should he end up prevailing,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “Instead, the story in Alaska is the same as most other places: the winner was better liked than the loser, and his views were seen as more in line with the electorate. Miller is yet another insurgent candidate who proudly claimed the Tea Party mantle.”

The simple truth is that the people who actually motivated to vote were either Joe Miller fans, or Independents who wanted to get Murkowski out of of the way so that Scott McAdams would have at least a shot at winning the Senate seat. It had, as proven by this poll, virtually NOTHING to do with Sarah Palin's endorsement.

Of course those are little things we call "facts" and facts will never convince teabaggers and Palin-bots of ANYTHING.