Americans View Sarah Palin as More Sincere and Believable After Watching Speech (Focus Group)

Mediacurves ^ | Saturday January 15, 2011

[Bigtigermike]

A new national study among 1,437 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and Independents revealed that Americans indicated that Sarah Palin was more sincere and believable after viewing her speech in response to the shootings in Tucson.

The study was conducted during January 13-14 by HCD Research and reported on its MediaCurves.com® website, to obtain Americans’ perceptions of Sarah Palin after viewing a video of a speech she gave in response to the shootings in Tucson.

Respondents were asked to rate Sarah Palin on a scale from 1-7 regarding likeability, believability and sincerity, with 1 representing “not at all strong in this attribute” and 7 representing “extremely strong in this attribute.”

With the exception of likeability among Democrats, Palin’s attribute ratings increased among all parties after viewing her speech. The most notable increase was her sincerity ratings, which increased from 2.62 to 2.69 among Democrats, from 5.25 to 5.45 among Republicans and from 3.68 to 3.85 among Independents.

Here is the raw data. 81% of Republicans and 56% of independents concluded that the speech will help her image and 78% of Republicans and 54% of independents concluded that the speech will help her in a potential presidential run.

[rabidralph]

A position paper? I read her Going Rogue book and that told me all I needed to know about her and confirmed what I learned about her during the 2008 campaign. When she speaks, it’s from the heart, not from the heart of a teleprompter. She follows the Constitution, believes in America’s greatness and refudiates the evil in our enemies both foreign and domestic. She exhibits leadership skills at every level of her professional and personal life.

[IM2MAD]

I wish she would recall Abraham Lincoln’s quote when addressing the malice toward her.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

[meadsjn]

Sarah Palin: America By Heart, A Review
Posted by Melissa Clouthier on Dec 5 2010

[GoCards]

Wonder where the poll is on Obama and his speech?

[RED SOUTH]

Or for that matter , read America By Heart.

[Charles Martel]

I wish she would recall Abraham Lincoln’s quote when addressing the malice toward her.

Indeed, I'd love to see that just for the howls of protest it would generate on the left. The Democrats keep trying to lay claim to Lincoln; it'd be very rewarding to use his words against them.

[Vinnie]

The TLC ‘Alaska’ show was fun.
But it’s time to get serious, ie. the recent speech she made. Very presidential.

[ridesthemiles]

AMEN

[rabidralph]

I haven’t had a chance to read that. I loaned it out to a friend.

[EmilyGeiger]

Well she scares them because she is able to communicate straight to the public...one of Reagan’s traits. The media hates this as does the Republican establishment.

[rabidralph]

I didn't mean to attack your call for a position paper. But this being the 24-hour news cycle, breaking news on Twitter, updates on Facebook, the general public is not going to spend 40 minutes reading a position paper.

Gov. Palin is learning how to communicate with the public, without the media filter and interference. She can say what she wants on Facebook, release a video on YouTube, all without buying airtime on an alphabet channel, nor being interrogated by hostile journalists with their confused face reaction shots. There will be plenty of time for those encounters when the time is right, but for now, Gov. Palin is taking charge of her image and her quotes and people can see what she's about without the media telling us what she's about.

[freedomfiter2]

But, the RINOs are saying that she jumped the shark.

[Clyde5445]

SARAH PALIN'S PING LIST

[Yaelle]

It’s queer and baffling. I’ve never seen such hatred and sheer unadulterated malice leveled at any public person, including Nixon and Bush. This goes beyond reason.

Include President Bush.

You said my sentiments better than I have ever done. What we need is for SOMEONE in the public eye, or a few someones, to repeat what you have said above, several public times. The general public needs to hear that the hatred and malice leveled at her, when she has committed no heinous act, is unprecedented, and they need to think about WHY that is, and what our "media" might really be.

[OpusatFR]

“What we need is for SOMEONE in the public eye, or a few someones, to repeat...”

Oh dear. No one will. I know several on the left who are appalled at the Bolsheviks’ tactics, but they won’t endanger themselves or their positions, and some have high positions to lose.

[Anamnesis]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703766704576009322838245628.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/252477/midterms-lessons-learned-and-way-forward-sarah-palin

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/252715/palin-bernanke-cease-and-desist-robert-costa

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071302852.html

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/255568/senate-republicans-vote-no-new-start-sarah-palin

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-12-22-column22_ST2_N.htm

[Josh Painter]

One thing that makes Palin such a standout is the difference between her and her potential rivals for the GOP presidential nomination. As a group, they remind me of the talked-about-but-never-seen character “Mr. Loopner” from the Todd and Lisa skits on the original SNL:

[ Mr. DiLaBounta and Mrs. Loopner re-enter with some glasses of Tang ]

Lisa Loopner: You know, Marshall, as a single parent, I’ve had to be both a mother and father to Lisa.

Todd: You’ve done a terrific job, Mrs. Loopner.

Mrs. Loopner: Oh, thank you, Todd!

Mr. DiLaBounta: Uh, Enid.. I hope this isn’t indelicate, but.. [ picks his nose ] ..how did Mr. Loopner pass away?

Mrs. Loopner: Oh.. he was born without a spine. It was always just a matter of time.

Mr. DiLaBounta: What did he do for a living?

Mrs. Loopner: Oh, didn’t you know? He invented the Slinky.

Lisa Loopner: Yeah.. unfortunately, he didn’t call it the Slinky, and he didn’t patent it. But he sued the Slinky people for $5 million.. and lost.

[ they laugh ]

Todd: Good Tang!

- JP

[meadsjn]

Or for that matter , read America By Heart.

I'm reading America By Heart now. It's a whole book of position papers.

Of course, I've also read most of the 297 articles that Sarah Palin has written in the past two years, on every major issue facing the USA and the world, some published in various MSM news outlets, and all preserved on her Facebook Notes page.

PalinTV - In Her Own Words. Unfiltered. has hundreds of speeches and video clips wherein Palin addresses just about anything anyone could want to know about her views on anything.

The Policy & Issues section of the PalinTV.com site has 42 separate pages on Sarah Palin's positions on policy and issues.

All this, in addition to Going Rogue and America By Heart, is still just not enough. I'm looking forward to hearing more from and about Sarah Palin.

Perhaps after eight years as President, we'll know a little more about this mystery woman, her vision for the future of the USA, and maybe some hint of her positions on various political issues.

[Dawgreg]

I said it on another thread on here.....she may be the next POTUS. This hit on her will backfire. I love her and I must say at times she’s sounded shrill in her delivery but this time she was soft-spoken and as usual, direct and to the point. I loved that speech and that speech may be a turning point for her. IMHO.....:)