For Palin there's no place like home...in a bad way (PPP Survey says she has 33% favorability in AK)

Public Policy Polling ^ | 12/30/2010

[SeekAndFind]

It's a well known fact that Sarah Palin is the most unpopular major political figure in the country...one thing that may be less well known is that one of the states where voters have the dimmest view of her is her own home state of Alaska.

We've polled Palin's favorability in ten states over the last couple months. In Alaska just 33% of voters have a favorable opinion of her to 58% with a negative one. The only place where fewer voters see her positively than her own home state is dark blue Massachusetts.

Democrats hate Palin in Alaska but they hate her everywhere so there's nothing newsworthy about that. What makes her home state numbers unusually bad is that Republicans see her favorably by only a 60/30 margin. In most places she's closer to 80% favorability within her own party. Also while independents don't like her anywhere their level of animosity in Alaska is unusually large- 65% unfavorable to only 25% with a favorable opinion.

It's not a coincidence that the 35% of the vote Joe Miller appears to have received in the Alaska Senate race is almost identical to the 33% who have a favorable opinion of Palin. Miller allowed himself to practically become a surrogate for Palin and while that was good for letting him pull off a primary victory by the slimmest of margins it was not so good for his prospects in the general election.

Palin's unpopularity in Alaska is an interesting sidebar but ultimately pretty irrelevant to a possible 2012 Presidential bid. What's more relevant is that a majority of voters in every single state we have polled so far on the 2012 race has an unfavorable opinion of her. And her average favorability in the Bush/Obama states of Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia that are most likely essential to Republican chances of retaking the White House is 36/56. Democrats can only hope...

Here are Palin's state by state favorability numbers:

State	Favorability
Montana	44/50
Ohio	37/52
North Carolina	36/57
Florida	36/57
Virginia	35/58
Wisconsin	35/58
Minnesota	35/60
Michigan	34/60
Alaska	33/58
Massachusetts	27/68

[Doc Savage]

Jesus said it best: A Prophet is never believed in his own land. I paraphrase.

[Doogle]

poll poo

[Pikachu_Dad]

Sounds like they only polled leftists.

[calex59]

BS, this whole article is BS. Sarah had an 80% approval rating when she was governor and I doubt is she has dropped that much in Alaska by this time. As for being the “most unpopular” and it being common knowledge, that is just wishful thinking among the dimwits.

[KoRn]

Not good....

I believe the Miller campaign picked up on this at some point, given how he wouldn’t exactly come out for her when asked if he thought she was qualified to be president.

[bgill]

It's a well known fact that Sarah Palin is the most unpopular major political figure in the country

That's where I stopped reading.

[Leo Carpathian]

They are fer shure skared of her!
In another poll: Oooobama farted, Hellelllujjaaaah!

GO SARAAAAH!!!

[Sarah Barracuda]

PPP is a leftist polling company..If they said the sun will rise tomorrow I’d have to go outside and verify it

[central_va]

PPP Methinks thou doth protest too much.

[Cheetahcat]

This is a poll by the bed wetters,meaningless.

[Padams]

While Palin had an approval rating in the 80s early in her term as governor, by May 2009, her approval had dropped to a low of 54 percent.

[Psycho_Bunny]

How’d PPP do in the last election cycle?

[Brilliant]

Yeah. If you’d kept reading you’d have seen that the really bad news for Palin is that she has a favorability rating among Republicans of only 60 percent.

[Sarah Barracuda]

PPP had Doug Hoffman winning by 20 points..nuff said

[gwilhelm56]

Anything from the MSM regarding Palin... or ANYONE... I need 3 corroborating sources before I’ll believe it... The National Enquirer only needs 2.

It’s a pity how SOME FReepers will see an article like this, and they join the bandwagon.

The MSM and the GOP are NOT our friends. The forementioned FREEPERS NEED to get this thru their thickened skulls.

[MichaelCorleone]

As someone once said: the only poll numbers that matter are the ones on election night.

Just wondering, how well “liked” was Margaret Thatcher prior to her rise to power? How about Benjamen Netanyahou (sp?) or Winston Churchill?

[jospehm20]

Has a PPP poll ever been right? This outfit is nothing but a bunch of ‘Rat hacks.

[gwilhelm56]

** ...how well “liked” was Margaret Thatcher prior to her rise to power?**

They said REAGAN could never get elected, too!!

[hosepipe]

Many of the the ones that support her are not polled..
So the poll(s) are bull squirt..

Same with the TpCaucus supporters.. not polled.. many/most of them..