Do you read polls? They are not good for Palin.
If there is this huge demand for Palin, why did she get less than 35 votes at the Iowa SP out of 17,000 cast? These thousands of Palin supporters should have been willing to crawl over broken glass to vote for her.
Imho, Iowa is out of touch, and increasingly inconsequential.
Dearest Conservativegreatgrandma,
You know better than that! The Ames Iowa Straw Poll is FUND RAISER FOR THE IOWA GOP!
Governor Palin didn’t spend one dime on tickets!
She displayed all the honor and consideration for the declared candidates as she possibly could!
She was in and out in one day, but she sure attracted a whole lot of crowds and media attention!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You and I have had this conversation before. You were told then that Palin had chosen NOT to be involved in the straw poll and indicated that to her supporters. Not that being told again will change your mantra.
The crowds Palin draws are indicative of the support she will receive and the vitriol that she and her supporters endure which serve only to embolden are telling. The more lies the lamestream spew being proven wrong will serve to lesson their impact over time.
Because those thousands of Palin supporters were not allowed to cast ballots. In order to cast a ballot, you have to purchase a ticket for a fundraiser for the state Republican Party. Those tickets were quickly snapped up by party hacks who wanted to ensure their candidate got a good showing. That's how Ron Paul ended up in second place, only about 150 votes behind Bachmann. You think that is an indicator of how Ron Paul will do when the real primary season starts?
Then you had announced frontrunner candidates like Rick Perry and Mitt Romney who only got a few votes because they decided not to expend their energies on it, because it is such a worthless poll that is easily manipulated by party hacks.
Guess how well 2008 nominee John McCain did in the same straw poll back in 2007?
He got a whopping 0.7% of the vote.
And in 1987, Pat Robertson was the winner of this poll. Yes, the same Pat Robertson who claims that God diverts hurricanes for him.
So basically the Ames Straw Poll is nothing but a joke...a diversion to help get bored journalists through the dog days of summer.
The Iowa Rino fund raiser has been explained to you repeatedly. You choose to twist the truth. And even spread disinformation.
I guess you didn't hear that the Iowa star aw poll was nothing but a big vote auction, and that word went out for Palin supporters to not even bother.
Also, those crowds you shrug off are voters, and so are their families and friends. There's nothing worse for a campaign than an empty venue...
...as opposed to THIS:
I read polls, lots of them every day. They are actually quite fluid on Palin, neither positive nor negative beyond the tilt imposed by question wording. Once she announces, we'll see what her support is like, particularly after she does some campaigning and people listen to her. For now, the polls on her are essentially harmless to moderately positive. She will have an audience when she announces, a BIG audience. Whether she will get their votes depends on what she says in her speeches and other announcements.