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Despite poll findings, there is still a big audience that isn’t tired of Sarah Palin
The Washington Post's The Fix ^ | July 9, 2014 | Philip Bump

Posted on 07/12/2014 10:43:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg poll released on Wednesday reveals something that an exasperated portion of the country likely feels is overdue: The majority of Americans -- 54 percent -- wish that Sarah Palin would step back into the shadows of public discourse. As we noted, that includes over 60 percent of Democrats and almost 40 percent of Republicans.

Meaning that Sarah Palin must constrain her possible media audience to only 46 percent of the population of the United States, and a little over half of her party. Somehow, we doubt she'll starve.

Palin has been remarkably adept at parlaying her 2008 vice presidential nomination into this new career. Or, really, not a new career. Before she was in politics, she worked briefly as a sports reporter for an Anchorage TV station. She's been in front of a camera for longer than she's been on a ballot. So we really shouldn't find it surprising that, lifted up onto the national platform, she's figured out a way to keep from falling off the edge.

Last November, Palin released a new book called Good Tidings and Great Joy. It was pitched as an attempt to remind American of the religious nature of the holiday season, an early entry into the war over religion that erupted with the suspension of Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson the following month.

I was at the book launch in (fittingly enough) Bethlehem, Penn. The remarkable thing about the 700-plus people who waited in line to see the former governor was that they were much more compelled by her as a person than as a political figure...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: media; msm; palin; polls
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

:-))))))) !!!!


21 posted on 07/13/2014 1:24:35 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PS: The flak is getting heavier than ever. Gov Palin must be straight over the target with her call for impeachment.


22 posted on 07/13/2014 1:27:33 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...”Who commissions such a poll without wanting a certain outcome? Sarah Palin, at least to my knowledge, isn’t running for any political office. Polls cost money to implement.”...

Sarah has something in common with Jesus. The main stream media continues to try to crucify her, even though she is no threat to them. Her very existence, her example of traditional family values, her innocence and goodness, and the fact that she did not kill her little boy in the prenatal state, is a glaring contrast to what they are and that is why they hate her. The leftists, you know, must wipe out any example which does not totally match with their own ideas, lifestyle or lust for forcing society into total government rule where they get to be a part of the thug groups who enforce it. A significant portion of this country loves Sarah Palin and no matter how much hate exists for her in the 2% or so who have the big leftists megaphones , that is not going to change.


23 posted on 07/13/2014 2:29:31 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: Moonman62

...”Mrs. Clinton is one of the most vile people on the planet and she keeps getting propped up by the media, whereas the media is constantly attacking Palin. She’s doing well considering the circumstances.”...

Sarah Palin is a throw back to America, as it was founded. Mrs. Clinton has worked her whole life to implement a new America, based on Saul Alinsky’s, “Rules for Radicals.” Unfortunately, 16 years of the Clinton’s and the Obama’s very well might be looked back upon as a new founding for America which took her from being a free nation into a nation, which, like most of the other societies which have ever existed in human history, came into being through conquest. This time, it will have been a very clever 50 year long takeover of this nation through educational propaganda, greatly aided and assisted by a state run media.
Those interested in this process need to run to the nearest theater to see D’Souza’s movie, “America.” He makes everything plain in only a couple of hours.


24 posted on 07/13/2014 2:41:00 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gov Palin will be the next POTUS.


25 posted on 07/13/2014 2:59:40 AM PDT by SarahPalinForPresident2012 (And 2016 as well)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who commissions such a poll without wanting a certain outcome? Sarah Palin, at least to my knowledge, isn't running for any political office. Polls cost money to implement.

You can bet it ain't "An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg poll" group of folks.

26 posted on 07/13/2014 4:07:22 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

I don’t know one Conservative who is obsessed with Democrat former VP nominees. Or who even bothers to remember their names.
When among politically active Republicans, bring up Palin’s name and watch the proverbial wheat separate from the chaff. Fun exercise, although you may lose even more respect for some of your RINO friends.


27 posted on 07/13/2014 4:53:25 AM PDT by Kanzan
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To: SarahPalinForPresident2012
I believe she, Palin, could win the presidency with that 46% as long as Hillary and the fat one from NJ were the establishment candidates, for the Dems and the Repubs.

Palin as an independent with Teddy Cruz as her VP candidate.

Make it happen!

28 posted on 07/13/2014 5:24:44 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Philip Bump manages to puke out yet another anti-Palin article based on a fake leftist poll.

Who would have guessed it?

29 posted on 07/13/2014 5:37:14 AM PDT by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party - the accounts of their death have been greatly exaggerated.


30 posted on 07/13/2014 7:20:12 AM PDT by Lake Living
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