Your source for the polls doesn't come clear in my browser, but I copied this quote from the article:
I was surprised that Palin's charm did not work better than the poll results showed. But she likely was weighed down by Saturday Night Live parodies and interviews earlier in the week with CBS's Couric. By the time of the debate, people knew that she is not ready for the presidency and saw through her efforts to appear that she was with canned responses.
The issue from the Thursday night debate ultimately is not about Palin but about McCain's judgment in selecting someone with so little qualification for national office.
The McCain/Palin ticket will likely drop into attack gear for the remainder of the campaign in a last ditch effort to stop Obama and Biden. I think it's likely to become really ugly but hope that McCain chooses instead to recover some of his dignity as Palin did in a good effort Thursday night.
No bias there right? It appears Olddeckhand believes the MSM templates quite well. It was Palin's fault McCain lost. Is your last name Schmidt?
I couldn't care less about the comments of the media. What I care about are the scientific results from the pollsters. I chose that particular story because it quoted the most polls I could find - CNN/CBS/FOX. I've seen other polls from that period from NBC/Wall St Journal that all track with the others.
Are you saying the polls are wrong, fabricated, made-up or manipulated in some way? If so, that's fine. At least I know where you're coming from. You'll believe nothing that doesn't conform to you're own personal view of world, despite overwhelming scientific evidence. It's tough to have an intellectual conversation with that.