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Alaskans Sour on Sarah Palin
WSJ ^ | 5/7/09 | Susan Davis

Posted on 05/07/2009 1:00:48 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun

Once billed as the most popular governor in America, Alaska Republican Sarah Palin has seen her popularity take a dive. According to a recent Hays Research poll, 54% of Alaskans have either a very or somewhat positive view of the governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee while 42% have a very or somewhat negative view. The results are vastly different than a similar poll taken by Hays Research about a year ago which gave Palin an 86% positive rating and a 9% negative rating.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; 2012electionbias; ak; ak2010; alaska; alaskans; palin; palinbashing; pds; polls; pravdamedia; rino; rinoattack; romney; sarahpalin; smearcampaign; waronsarah
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To: anniegetyourgun

Baloney......Americans and Alaskans are REALLY SOUR ON PELOSI.
WSJ.... me know when you get your “power of reason” back, ‘cause you guys have lost it.
Take a BHO poll in Alaska......and get back with me about how horrible Sarah’s Numbers are.


41 posted on 05/07/2009 1:32:56 PM PDT by 4Speed
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To: anniegetyourgun

If they are tired of her in Alaska, let her move to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C.


42 posted on 05/07/2009 1:33:51 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Proud Veteran - Sworn to Defend The Constitution! - Caution: That makes me a Right-Wing Extremist.)
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To: avacado

“Propaganda works on the sheep, apparently.”

It’s all about the money; Palin has refused any government bail-out money. Obama, Reid, Pelosia, and their minions have made whores out the mindless idiots who only care about the now...


43 posted on 05/07/2009 1:33:59 PM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Great suggestion!


44 posted on 05/07/2009 1:39:13 PM PDT by pke
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To: hosepipe
"Only the silly Alaskan democrats are sour on Palin.. and not all of them.. Alaska LOVEs Sara Palin.. "

I agree. If you only poll 100 Democrats regarding the performance of a Republican governor, you will get similar responses. Considering the onslaught of NEGATIVE, NASTY, and DESPICABLE attacks she's had to deal with, I'd say she's done extremely well. I am still reminded of her nickname, and I don't think this stuff is doing much more than making her take names for future reference.

45 posted on 05/07/2009 1:46:17 PM PDT by redhead (REMEMBER DAN'S BAKE SALE!!!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Unless she can command airtime, she really is largely at the mercy of the liberal rags. It would be interesting to do a poll of who likes/dislikes her versus where they get their news from.

Your is a point well worth repeating. Not only do the MSM do negative reporting on conservative candidates they also withhold reporting of good news or well attended speeches. I remember the absence of reporting on Fred Thompson's run for the Republican nomination accompanied by claims that he was lazy and uninspiring.

The absence of positive reporting is just as destructive as false and negative reporting.

46 posted on 05/07/2009 1:49:32 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: anniegetyourgun

I don’t know where they get their figues. Everyone, and I mean everyone I talk to, left and right, think she is doing a fine job. Yeah, there are little complaints here and there, but over all, people respect her.


47 posted on 05/07/2009 1:53:30 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: anniegetyourgun

No campaigning, media full of bad news, not just about her, but life and the economy in general and she is sitting at 54%, it looks fine to me.

Check out this Rasmussen chart on Governor approval rates to see where numbers like that put her in relation to Governors in general.(it is high)

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/favorables/governors_approval_ratings


48 posted on 05/07/2009 2:05:34 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: Cicero
There’s been a fair number of items posted here from the Anchorage Daily News, and all of them were negative. It’s obvious that the Alaskan press has joined the rest of the MSM.

The Anchorage Daily News is owned by McClatchy -- the same idiots that publish the Miami Herald, the Sac Bee, the Kansas City Star, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, and several other rags.

McClatchy is about as Liberal MSM as they come. And McClatchy is going broke about as fast as the other liberal MSM wipes.

49 posted on 05/07/2009 2:07:53 PM PDT by Zakeet (Thou Shalt Not Steal -- Unless thou art the government)
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To: redpoll

I can testify to the accuracy of your comment, redpoll. The ADN’s smearing of Governor Palin has been beyond the pale. It is blatant, it is insidious, it is non-stop, and it is typical of the liberal bias of the MSM.

Did you see the cover of the ADN on the day before, or the day of (can’t remember which) election day?! I was at our local store and saw it. They had slapped a Vote for Obama sticker on the front page of each and every edition.

The ADN doesn’t get one damn dime from this Alaskan.


50 posted on 05/07/2009 2:08:12 PM PDT by CaribouCrossing
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To: redpoll

By the way, the same goes for the Fairbanks Newsminer.


51 posted on 05/07/2009 2:08:56 PM PDT by CaribouCrossing
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To: redpoll

By the way, the same goes for the Fairbanks Newsminer.


52 posted on 05/07/2009 2:09:46 PM PDT by CaribouCrossing
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To: trumandogz

same polling and sampling methodologies in both polls.

So we are told.


53 posted on 05/07/2009 2:21:09 PM PDT by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

No Alaska is very republican.. or conservative..


54 posted on 05/07/2009 2:28:16 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: chainsaw

Which doesn’t tell us how fair either one was. They could be picking up a societally disproportional number of fickle persons.


55 posted on 05/07/2009 2:35:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: snoringbear

She turned down 28.6 million of 931 million in federal aid. 0.3% of the total. Woo-hoo!!


56 posted on 05/07/2009 2:35:54 PM PDT by schlockandflaws (Sarah Palin makes me realize Steve Cowper wasn't so bad after all.)
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To: anniegetyourgun
Phone poll, 400 households, only had to have had someone in the household vote in 2 of the last 4 elections, no weighting by party, 5% MOE.

Here's a list of Hays Research's clients from its website:

The New York Times

The Daily Kos

The Washington Post

CBS News

Congressional Quarterly

Talking Points Memo

The Politico

Here's their pre-election 2008 final poll for Alaska:

McCain/Palin 46.6%

Undecided - Lean McCain/Palin 1.7%

Obama/Biden 43.9%

Undecided - Lean Obama/Biden 0.7%

Other Candidate 2.0%

Don't Know / Refused 5.1%


And here's the actual from 2 days later:

McCain/Palin 59.8%

Obama/Biden 38%


I think I'll wait for more reliable results before I pronounce her politically dead. Another poll reported a couple of weeks ago in the ADN showing actual projected matchups against real Democrat opponents showed nobody in Alaska could beat her in a race for Governor...nobody.

57 posted on 05/07/2009 2:48:00 PM PDT by Al B.
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To: Al B.

Forgot to add, I still don’t think she runs for re-election anyway. JMO.


58 posted on 05/07/2009 2:50:08 PM PDT by Al B.
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To: Al B.

Al B., I was just going to post this...thanks for saving me the trouble. I can’t believe (what am I saying..of course I can believe it) that so much is being made of this one “poll” of 400 Alaskans—with no party identity noted! Who knows-—maybe 80% of them were Dems. This poll is clearly an outlier-—add to that the past record of the pollster. How could any reputable pollster miss the Presidential race by so flippin’ much? A few points, sure....but by 19 points in a presidential call? Absurd.


59 posted on 05/07/2009 2:52:51 PM PDT by SallyH ( wit)
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To: anniegetyourgun

Hang in there, Sarah. We love you.


60 posted on 05/07/2009 2:53:56 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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