Posted on 09/27/2009 5:27:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Head-to-head with Obama, she’s steady from last month: He led her 52/38 in August and leads 53/38 now. But her favorables are in the toilet, dropping from 47/45 in July to 40/49 in August to … 37/55. The positive spin for Palin fans, I guess, is that the less the public sees of her, the worse she seems to do, which turns the conventional media wisdom on its head. Now that she’s reemerged to hit the lecture circuit, it’ll be interesting to see if she spikes up in October.
Another ominous trend: Her favorability among Republicans was higher last month than Huckabee’s even though he fared better against Obama overall (this month he trails by seven points after trailing in August by just three), but now he’s nudged past her even within the party.
He beats her among Republicans even in a hypothetical contest against Obama, winning 77 percent and losing just 13 while Palin tops out at 70 percent and loses 18. Even when you break it out by ideology, expecting the ‘Cuda to win big among conservatives, it’s a statistical wash:
Exit question: Where’s all the GOP Huck love coming from? Does he have that many fans of his Fox show? Or is he just drawing good vibes as the funny, genial southern guy, in contrast to the more polarizing personas of Palin and Romney?
Depressing.
No..... nobody want to be considered racist!
Presidential Election is 3 years away... this poll means nothing.
America gets everything she deserves.
Given a choice today, the majority would choose Obama. That says a lot about where this nation is headed.
Yep, in 2005, everyone thought it would be Hillary versus Rudy.
I’m willing to bet Carter would have smoked Reagan if a poll were taken during September 1977.
caliph bammy beats Sarah Palin after three more years of his murderous policies?
Bullsquirt!
Figures don’t lie, but Liars can make figures say what they want.
**America gets everything she deserves.**
Unfortunately, you are correct. And all the innocent passengers go down with the doomed flight. The moron flight crew (demonrats and their enablers),on drugs, doesn’t even know the plane is crashing ... or doesn’t care.
Who did this poll, Acorn? Sarah has a lot more support among real Americans than what these “polls” show. Maybe the poll was taken in south-central LA.
Regan was rich. SHE is not. She supposed to stay on till she was one million in the hole?
PPP is a Democrat polling firm.
- JP
That is probably because the media won't quite trying to tear her down. This is because they fear her mightily.
It's too early to tell if these kinds of numbers are "normal," or if they reflect her absence from the public eye for a month or two.
One thing we do know: Zero's numbers tend to dip when he IS in the public eye. I will grant you this, though: it's hard for someone to come back from sub-40 approval no matter what you do. It's possible---Nixon did it. But difficult.
Palin has several years to see whether she is the next Margaret Thatcher or Jean Kirkpatrick. So far, I am impressed with her reaganesque qualities. We need someone who is a leader of the conservative movement, not someone who toadies to every whim of the press or society. Right now I believe Palin is doing the right thing. Sitting in the background and saying accurate statements like “death panels” to rile up up and infuriate the leftist-marxists that control our media and White House. She needs to build up her gravitas (how I hate that word!) like she did in Hongkong last week criticizing the FEDS role in the economic meltdown.
“The positive spin for Palin fans, I guess, is that the less the public sees of her, the worse she seems to do, which turns the conventional media wisdom on its head.”
In other words, the more people see of her, the better she does. Sounds good to me!
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