Really, then how come with 98% name id she is only polling 20%??????
McCain polled so bad in Dec of 07 that the media pronounced his campaign dead. Polls now mean nothing in 2012.
"Polls" said that Carter would wipe the floor with Reagan, right up until election day of 1980.
If the polls were the oracle you believe them to be, the MSM wouldn't waste a single breath attacking Sarah Palin.
Folks who are in the professional political class know that she's a force to be reckoned with, and aren't dismissing her in the least. On the contrary, they're doing all they can to prepare for her entrance into the race - including bailing out altogether, ala Huck, Trump, Barbour, et al.