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.
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
Here's a list of Hays Research's clients from its website:
The New York TimesHere's their pre-election 2008 final poll for Alaska:The Daily Kos
The Washington Post
CBS News
Congressional Quarterly
Talking Points Memo
The Politico
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.
Hang in there, Sarah. We love you.
In early March, this same pollster had Palin at 64% approval. At the end of March, the pollster had Palin at 59%. In May, the Hays Research has Palin at 54% approval.
Palin publicized feuds with the legislature have hurt her more than the silly ethics complaints and Levi doing the MSM tour.
Redstate Poster Achance wrote this lengthy piece that shedds some light about Palin’s governing style.
Paying attention to her government would be good. Understanding that she can’t rule by fiat and that there is a Legislature to be considered. They were all scared to even be seen together while the FBI was in full cry here, so she could run roughshod over them. That’s over and they can feel the weaknesses in her Adminstration. There’s also some fearsome desire for payback on the part of some powerful Republcan legislators, so it will take some fearsome making nice. She never had any support much in Juneau, but our new Republican Legislator tried to work with her with little success on a new State office building here. She’s made implacable foes of the Republican legislators in the rest of Southeast Alaska by acting like Southeast isn’t even a part of the State. That doesn’t change because it plays well in Wasilla to hate Southeast though nobody there has ever been here. The WAR appointment alienated what little support she had in rural/Native Alaska and making it without any real consultation with Republican legislators didn’t help her relations with them. That was a first; no gubernatorial cabinet level appointment has EVER been turned down before. She’ll never see 80-90% approval numbers again, but that was unrealistic anyway. She got a holiday from the ADN, something no Republcan had ever gotten before and that ended the day she accepted the VP slot and will never return. They did do a halfa@#ed criticism of all the Ethics Act complaints on the lead editorial the other day though, but those had reached the point where they were making the Ds look silly. So, she gets to be a real world governor dealing with real world things and her superstar days here are over, but she can mend some fences. The question is, will she?
http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2009/05/07/alaskan-conservatives-need-to-stand-up-for-gov-palin/
BOGUS poll....Hays is a small outfit out of Anchorage. They don’t even have the integrity to publish their methodology!
The persecution of conservatives by the media continues unabated.
They must be doing something right ;o)