I love the chick, but, unfortunately, not a whole lot of voting Americans do.
"Now that the 2010 midterms are over, the big question swirling around Palin is whether she will run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Given her high name recognition and broad popularity among Republicans, 80% of whom now view her favorably, she is clearly in a strong position to seek it."
Sarah (and indeed, no presidential candidate) needs to get 50% of the vote to be elected. She only needs 270 electoral votes, which she is quite likely to get, if she runs. Several Freepers have posted excellent analyses on this.
There isn't a stronger potential candidate in the Republican field, than Sarah Palin. And, I'm not just talking numbers. She has personal attributes and qualities that place her head and shoulders above the rest the potential candidates for 2012. Attributes and qualities that are absolutely essential to lead this country back from the brink of oblivion.
Would you care to compare that ‘all Americans’ Palin unfavorable rating with our current president’s unfavorables among likely voters?
Fortunately, the polling to which you linked does not pertain to "voting Americans", and uses warped sampling in several other ways. Survey Methods
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Nov. 4-7, 2010, with a random sample of 1,021 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using random-digit-dial sampling. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones (for respondents with a landline telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell phone-only). Each sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone-only respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, education, region, and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2009 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in continental U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.