Palin’s got a natural constituency with independents, whom we also need for her to win—and the media’s succeeded in casting her as a bimbo. She has to undo that image with them.
I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that most independents do not think that Gov. Palin is a bimbo. They see her as a good, decent person and an effective leader.
The media can cast her as being a bimbo all it wants but I think that most people who have conservative leanings already think more highly of Gov. Palin than they let on.