Posted on 11/24/2009 8:49:42 AM PST by TaxPayer2000
Via Andrew, some real talk from David Frum:
I was interviewed on PBS last week about Palin's book release. I said that Palin had an especially serious problem with women voters.
This is just fact, again recorded in every survey. In October 2008, Palin's support dropped furthest and fastest among women, and especially among independents: more than two dozen points among independent women in barely 6 weeks. Consistently since the campaign, every survey has shown the former Alaska governor much more popular among men than women. And yet this attested statistical fact is shrugged off with comments like, "when I saw her campaign in N.H., I was surrounded by moms with strollers"
So let's try to bang this one down for keeps.
Earlier this month, CNN/Opinion Research released a poll showing that only 28% of Americans now think Palin qualified for the presidency. 70% say she is unqualified. Even among Republicans, only 54% think she is qualified, 44% say No.
The published poll does not break these answers down by sex, but I asked my friends at the Political Unit for the cross-tabs, and here's what they show:
While 33% of men deem Palin qualified, only 24% of women do. 66% of men deem her unqualified - and 74% of women.
Now look just at Republicans: Republican men deem Palin "qualified" by a margin of 60-38. But Republican women? Not even half think she is qualified: only 49%. 50% of Republican women say Palin is unqualified for the job.
If you like Palin - well go ahead. It's a free country. But quit saying that "the people" love Sarah Palin.
They don't. Actually, they quite dislike her. The longer they know her, the more they dislike her. And even more than they dislike her, they do not respect her.
(Excerpt) Read more at ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com ...
I agree with the headline, but given that, i cannot understand why the Left is so obsessed with her.
People HATE David Frum. The three dozen people who know him at all, that is.
The BS meter just went through the roof!
AND the LAME STREAM MEDIA will NEVER be taken seriously!
What? He has a crystal ball. We were stupid enough on this site saying that Obama would never be President even up until the final vote was cast...lol. Seriously people were yelling at people who said “Pennsylvania went to Obama” and people were called liars and other such names. So who can even predict who can and can’t be President....no one can until the last vote is cast. Sarah has as much chance at being President as anybody else.
“Sarah Palin will never be president”. Just keep telling yourselves that. And get yourselves some valium for November 2012.
Palin 2012
This is funny.
the media sure is scared of her
I agree with the headline, but given that, i cannot understand why the Left is so obsessed with her.
uh, maybe because they REALLY believe she can???
Just a silly guess on my part...
Frum is irrelevant and has turned on conservatives which is why the lefties love him.
Any article that uses a CNN poll as a basis for it’s
reasoning isn’t worth reading.
I wish people would stop posting crap from Frum.
The Disingenuous, Bashing Media’s (DBM) ongoing “shock and awe” smear campaign against Sarah remains in full swing.
They simply can’t handle the fact that Sarah is intelligent, attractive, conservative and did it all on her own without the need for ANY government “assistance” or intrusion!!
I look forward to casting my vote for her in ‘12.
There is one question I would like to pose to the David Frums of the world:
If, by some accident of happenstance, Sarah Palin becomes president in 2012, would you agree at this point to resign your writing position at whatever failing rag you currently write for or will be at that time writing for, and agree to work at the deep fryer at a McDonald’s of your choice, at any location you might choose, for four years?
ACORN!!!
Barack Obama will never be President.
Is this from the Atlantic Monthly? If so, you will understand that that mag goes into the garbage before it gets into the house. (my 97 year old mother sends it to me)
I like Palin, but this is what I am noticing from my republican women friends. I’ve been bashed for saying it also.
I don’t know all the issues that are bothering them. I just think it is not something to brush off if Palin wants to be president.
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