How to make Sarah Palin disappear (Kornacki again!)

Salon's War Room ^ | August 23, 2011 | Steve Kornacki, News Editor

[GunRunner]

It's not just Ron Paul. It's all of the candidates in all of the polls done across all polling agencies. They all poll better than she does. Every one. And this is despite 100% name recognition.

If it were a one off poll, I'd agree with you. But is every single one wrong, and what information are you privy to that brings you to this conclusion:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html

[2ndDivisionVet]

If the internal polls showed Gov. Palin losing against Mr. Obama, they’d ignore her instead of attacking her, FRiend. Since they continue going after her, I know that the polls they show the sheeple are bull. I’ve worked on presidential campaigns (I lived in Iowa from 1974 to 2002, except for my service time) and I know quite a bit about Iowa and national politics. Google shows about 92,000,000 results (0.13 seconds) for “Palin” so they’re not ignoring her, are they?

[GunRunner]

As far as I can tell, they are ignoring her. I haven't heard the White House say anything about Palin, only attacks on Perry from his EDU Secretary, Axelrod, and Carney.

And I'm not talking about internal polls, I'm talking about all of the public polls averaged together show her coming in behind Romney, Perry, Bachmann, Paul, Cain, and even Gingrich and Huntsman when matched against Obama. I think it's a reasonable question. Why, despite 100% name recognition is this the case?

I know she's not a declared candidate and the rest are, but I don't think that explains the discrepancy.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Have those individuals been attacked 24/7/365 for 3 years by the full force of the media, Hollywood, RINOs, Democrats, White House, Broadway, beltway, left-wing blogs and all that? The fact that her numbers in publicly published polls is as high as it is is a miracle! When the choice comes down to a complete failure, socialist who vacations as Rome burns and a patriotic woman, who do you really think will win?

[GunRunner]

OK, so you do acknowledge the numbers at least. And your reason seems to be the media attacks on her since the 2008 campaign.

I'm still perplexed that you think that being an average of 16 points down is a miracle.