Gallup wonders: What happened to Sarah Palin’s favorable rating?

Hotair ^ | 10/16/2009 | Allahpundit

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Worth posting if only to lay down a marker about where her favorables were before the book was released. At 40/50, there’s nowhere to go but up. Hopefully.

Palin became a bit of a sensation after John McCain tapped her as his running mate last August. But over the course of the campaign, her image suffered, going from a 53% favorable rating immediately after the 2008 Republican National Convention to 42% by the end of the campaign.

Palin’s ratings have not recovered, and her current 40% favorable rating is the lowest for her since she became widely known after last year’s Republican convention…

Palin could compete for the 2012 nomination because she is still widely liked by Republicans — 69% have a favorable opinion of her while only 25% view her unfavorably. But she may have difficulty succeeding in the general election, given that Democrats have overwhelmingly negative opinions of her, and independents view her more negatively than positively.

They offer no explanation for the slide but it’s not a mystery. Follow the link and see for yourself when the divergence between her favorable and unfavorable numbers started to grow. Anything important happen this past July? It’s not just Gallup either. If you scan Pollster.com’s poll of polls on her net favorables dating back to last year, you’ll find that she was pretty near even as recently as … mid-July, when suddenly the slide begins. In fact, Gallup’s numbers today are actually an improvement for her: The last three polls taken showed her approval in the 30s and her disapproval in the mid-50s. Proof positive, I guess, that her resignation has resonance with voters and will be a major issue in the primaries if she runs. I’ll bet Huck’s gaming out the “America can’t afford a quitter” ads as we speak.

[calex59]

If my family were getting attacked I would defend them and go after whoever was attacking them. Not run away like a whipped dog.

Not real bright are you? Sarah didn't run away "like a whipped dog". She didn't run at all. She fought hard and won every court case against the slanderous attacks on her.

However, the attacks were not going to quit, Alaska law differs from most because it allows Governors to be attacked with ethics charges over and over, which she was. The attacks were costing Alaska, not just Sarah, big bucks to fight.

She was fighting in the only legal way she had and it was draining Alaska's resources. She mainly quit for the good of Alaska.

Her replacement is carrying out her agenda and Alaska is doing fine and the draining of revenue from Alaska has stopped.

She did the right thing by resigning, she explained everything carefully when she did retire, if you couldn't understand what she said and what she meant that speaks to your stupidity, not to Sarah's character.

Your lack of brains and your emotional insecurity are evident in your idiotic remark.

[calex59]

Good chance you have a virus. Run a virus scan and a anti-malware program. They can eat up resources and keep making your computer slower and slower until it just locks up with very little use.

[potlatch]

Thanks calex, I run Spybot S&D pretty often. I have AVG antivirus. Think I’ll run MalwareBytes when I sign off tonight, takes two hours.

I think my computer is just FULL, lol.

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Know what?

Maybe you need a wider RAM!

(Continental Airlines TV ad ripoff parphrased - not to be used on any Michelle threads)

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There’s a Michelle thread today, you would enjoy it!!

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I am surprised nobody else picked that up

[paul544]

Sorry, I thought she QUIT her job. My mistake.

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[I am surprised nobody else picked that up]

Guess you're talking about RAM. Random Access Memory.

Michelle is not ‘that’ wide in relation to her height. She has the high, large rear of many of the Black race. Hillary is barrel shaped, plus cankles.

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Looks very good
Val here. Posted the illegal .jpg too

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Thanks potlatch

I knew would be good

Gotta check your post