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"While 91% of GOPs view Palin favorably, 20% say she hurt the ticket."

Those numbers do not compute.

They do compute. You can have a favorable impression of Palin while, at the same time, believing that she hurt the ticket in the general election.

Look at the percentages from the article:

"Ninety-one percent (91%) of Republicans have a FAVORABLE view of Palin ... "

"An Election Day survey found that 81% of Democrats and, more importantly, 57% of unaffiliated voters had an UNFAVORABLE view of her."

Republicans gave Palin a pass on the Katie Couric interview disaster. Independents did not give her a pass and Democrats went for her jugular after the Katie Couric interview.

These are the percentages of Republicans, Democrats and Independent in the nation, as a whole.

Whether we like it or not, Democrats and Independents can and do vote in the general Presidential election and they constitute 73% of the American electorate.

Get out your calculator and crunch the numbers.

47% of all the voters in the general election had a FAVORABLE impression of Palin.

53% of all the voters in the general election had an UNFAVORABLE impression of Palin.

The final popular vote percentages in the general election were:

Obama/Biden: 52.6%

McCain/Palin: 46.1%

Palin’s unfavorable percentage was almost exactly the same as the winning popular vote percentage for Obama/Biden.

You can win a Free Republic popularity poll by getting 100% of the Republican vote and telling Democrats and Independents to go pound sand.

You can win a Republican primary election by getting 100% of the Republican vote and telling Democrats and Independents to go pound sand.

You WILL lose a general Presidential election by getting 100% of the Republican vote and telling Democrats and Independents to go pound sand.

You WILL lose a general Presidential election by getting 100% of the Republican vote and telling Democrats and Independents to go pound sand.

You WILL lose the next Presidential election -- just as you did this one, unforgivably, to a one-term Senate Marxist with open and unapologetic terrorist ties -- by alienating the conservative voting base still further (if that's even possible, at this point) and continuing to chase after the exact same phantom Democrats and "independents" who routinely spurn you every four years.

We did everything the RINO way this year, exactly the way the "moderates" wanted it, down to the last mewled syllable of their squishy, mealy-mouthed sock puppet's last apologetic campaign commercial.

The campaign "advice" offered up by these electoral dullards is, demonstrably, worth precisely jack squat. "Money talks, bull***t walks."