I find that incredible and unbelievable. Give me a source, a link, or anything that validates your kooky theory. It's so far out in left field that I am just sitting here laughing at you for thinking up this conspiracy, and trying to pass it off as truth. Nutsville.
Palin just is not popular with the general electorate, and even hardcore FReepers like Hildy and I are finding her passive-aggressive approach to running as both hypocritical and divisive. My thought is that she would have already announced if her internal polling showed her she had a chance, and since the public polls aren't showing that, and I'm guessing her internal polls as well, she's going all-in on the goofy "outsider" slant as a last chance attempt at finding more than a rabid a loyal base.
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I have been active here for ten years. Palin blew it the day she quit. She created an insurmountable negative vis a vis any national election.
Americans do not like quitters and regardless of what her freeper-acolytes want, that is what America will see, that she quit.
Her husband was confronted last month by a self-described Alaskan who said that she and others fely betrayed by the resignation. His answer..."go see the movie". That will not happen, not for that woman or for the 70,000,000 other American voters she would need to win.
She rendered herself unelectable.
Then she spent two years raking in the dough (fine but not especially solid credential building activity). Books, TV show(s), paid speeches, a start-and-stop bus tour, the dance of the seven veils...a handful of freepers see this as the work of a political genius...America sees something entirely different....they see an opportunist.
>> “You are accusing Murdoch of paying Scott Rasmussen so Ras will publish phony polls downplaying Palin’s chances.
I find that incredible and unbelievable” <<
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I find you incredibly naive and unbelieveble.
That is exactly the way all early “polling” has been done in the TV age.
Cogent people see through “polls” and look at more relevant data, like the candidates’ records.
Polling at best would yield to others your own decision making. Are you that hollow and gullible?