Actually Mchael Medved has noted the first lady’s popularity throughout the administration, and also noted that its perfectly normal for First Ladies to be more popular than their husbands. Sometimes the contrast is extreme, as with Betty Ford. Deal with it. I don’t think that conservatives do themselves any favors by living in a bubble or shooting the messenger over things like this. Admittedly the media has helped her out, but automatically jump to the conclusion that the survey was rigged? Would you have done the same if some poll had announced that Laura Bush was more popular than W?
It’s also inaccurate to say that she must poll well with poor people. I’m poor and I don’t like her. Not being proud of her country for most of her life was bad enough, but what really tore it was letting the White House garden rot during the shutdown. The people gushing about her upper arms tended to NYT columnists, not people in housing projects.