Romano graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 2004 with an A.B. in English and a certificate in American Studies.
Posted on 09/16/2008 12:45:37 PM PDT by markomalley
To know her is not necessarily to love her.
When John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate late last month, the Alaska governor quickly became a media phenomenon. Largely unknown, she existed at first in something of an information vacuum, and due to the shock of her selection--everyone loves a surprise--the press rushed to fill the void with whatever data was easily available. Mostly this consisted of human interest material; Palin had plenty to go around. Mooseburgers. Float planes. Ice Fishing. Beauty pageants. Teen pregnancy. Et cetera. By the end of her first 15 minutes in the spotlight--which included her speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul--Palin existed mostly as an idea: a frontier supermom who'd triumphed over adversity (the Ol' Boys Club, the "liberal media"). Palin spent her first week reading from a teleprompter and avoiding questions from the press--and the public--so as not to sully this useful image.
The polls reflected the early success of her strategy. In the three days after Palin joined Team McCain--Aug. 29-31--32 percent of voters told the pollsters at Diageo/Hotline that they had a favorable opinion of her; most (48 percent) didn't know enough to say. By Sept. 4, however, 43 percent of Diageo/Hotline respondents approved of Palin with only 25 percent disapproving--an 18-point split. Apparently, voters were liking what they were hearing. Four days later, Palin's approval rating had climbed to 47 percent (+17), and by Sept. 13 it had hit 52 percent. The gap at that point between her favorable and unfavorable numbers--22 percent--was larger than either McCain's (+20) or Obama's (+13).
But then a funny thing happened: Palin lost some of her luster.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.newsweek.com ...
This ‘article’ is moosecrap.
Now it’s time for Palin to go off script and surprise the people who are starting to get bored.
I didn’t realize that they still published Newsweek.
That’s what they want you to believe. I believe we’ll see Sarah Palin increase in popularity. I also believe that a socialist Obama can’t beat the McCain/Palin ticket.
Anyone who quotes NewsWeak as a reliable source is merely dancing to the Democrats tune
If they get you to repeat this and believe it then you are under their control. Consider the source, do you REALLY believe what they are saying??
I sure hope not
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Sure shiny new trinkets lose their luster, but a good pair of boots or jeans only get better when they aren't brand new.
Palin is a good pair of jeans.
I can't imagine why - I mean the media has been on a full-court press campaign to smear this woman and portray her as the anti-christ, and they report with glee that her "favorability ratings" begin to falter.
Here’s what I don’t get. Republicans know over and over again that whenever a popular conservative gets into the national spotlight, the mainstream media hacks immediately go into character assassination mode. So why don’t the “evil” Karl Rove types do the obvious and dig up private dirt on MSM taking heads and news anchors like Charlie Gibson and Keith Olbermann, and when they smear us, we smear them. We keep thinking this is us versus the Democrats, when the issue is really us versus the media establishment.
Team McCain are starting to lose control of the narrative... they need shake things up again...
Hmm. Well, moving right along.........
Newsweak is in the sack with the Demoncrats.
I wouldn’t believe them if they were favorable to Palin.
Newsweak has NO CREDIBILITY with me.
When you quote Newsweak you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for a resource.
Romano graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 2004 with an A.B. in English and a certificate in American Studies.
Typical liberal bullcrap, moosecrap and cariboucrap. This is nonsense, because today FoxNews showed through Rasmussen polls that John McCAin is ahead of Obama and it’s holding...that is first thing I watch every day while praying for a 10 pt lead. Above the margin of error.
Gee, do you think Mr. Romano is going to vote for Mr. Obama?
Exactly. What are the credentials and histories of those who presume to judge?
NEWSWEEK?!?... I think they’ll be coming out with an article soon about how Palin flushed a Koran down the toilet.
Newsweek is as reliable as USWeekly.
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