Posted on 03/16/2011 5:31:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It has been a tough couple of days for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Her favorability ratings among GOP voters have slipped, a new poll shows, and fellow Republicans are taking pot shots.
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll, released Wednesday, found that Ms. Palin’s favorability ratings among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents have dropped to a new low. Fifty-eight percent of those voters still view her favorably – not exactly shabby, by most standards. But compared with the 88 percent favorable rating she enjoyed right after Sen. John McCain picked her as his running mate in 2008 – and even the 70 percent positive rating she enjoyed as recently as October – Palin is definitely on a downward slide.
Even more troubling for Palin, especially if she harbors presidential ambitions, is that her negative ratings among Republicans are higher than those for other possible GOP presidential contenders. Thirty-seven percent of Republicans and Republican-leaners see Palin unfavorably, the ABC News survey said. That exceeds former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s unfavorable ratings by 11 percentage points, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s by 16 points, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s by 19 points.
Support among Republicans is especially crucial for Palin given her standing with the general public. An ABC News/Post poll in December found that 59 percent of all likely voters would not consider voting for her for president.
“The results indicate continued challenges for Palin in public opinion,” Gary Langer wrote on the ABC News blog The Numbers. Mr. Langer provides public opinion polling and analysis to ABC News.
The poll slippage comes at a time when Palin's fellow conservatives are taking political pot shots at her.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Nothing to worry about.
This is P. Ant’s job to post this stuff.
http://www.langerresearch.com/uploads/1121a3%20Republican%20Candidates.pdf
METHODOLOGY – This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone March 10-13, 2011, among a random national sample of 1,005 adults, including landline and cell-phone-only respondents. The results among the sample’s 378 leaned Republicans have a 6-point error margin. The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates of New York, with sampling, data collection and tabulation by TNS of Horsham, PA.
Another ugly secret of these weekly hit polls is that they are conducted only in the big liberal cities and not in rural America.
And who's paying for them anyway? And why are they solely focused on Sarah Palin?
I don’t know if Palin is the only person I would vote for, but she is one of them.
Headline: Palin announces Run.
Unexpectedly surges in polls.
Funny that.
I omitted to say that ALL the pundits shelling SP are NOT conservatives by any real conservative measure.
In the LSM deluded minds only are they labeled as such so let “them” continue to drink that Cool Aide.
Seattle went 85% for Obama in 2008, if they ran a poll on Palin there, guess if the numbers would be skewed.
‘Fellow Conservatives like who.
Peter Wehner, Matt Labash, George Will, and Judd Gregg!
LOL!
LOL yeah if those are Conservatives then John McCain is a Conservative LOL
Good evening SB. Agree. Please see post #9 on this link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2689838/posts
This is the calm before the storm.
Have her poll numbers peaked? We will only know once she has been on the trail as a candidate for president. It’s called a campaign. There is a reason that candidates go out and talk to voters. Some candidates who seemed inevitable flopped and some who seemed unlikely got the nomination.
With Ari Fleisher, its all about getting Jeb Bush to run..look at all of the haters who hate on Sarah Palin, its all Bush guys, they all want Jeb Bush to run and get the nomination. That is why they are doing this, to get Sarah out of the way and Jeb Bush in
Not even for a scooby snack?
They think she has peaked? She will peak on election day.
They started by trying to convince her that she had insufficient support to run. She knew better. Then they try to erode support among her supporters by telling us that we don’t exist. We knew better. Then they tried whistling past the graveyard with the idea that “she’s not running”. We knew better. Now they are piling all those tactics together, “She doesn’t have enough support. Her supporters are bailing like rats on a sinking ship and she’s not running anyway.”
We know better.
If Romney is nominated, there will likely be a Tea Party candidate.
That’s why Dems will go heavy for him in open primary states - their version of Op Chaos.
With the opposition split, Baraq has a fair shot at a Clintonian plurality win.
378 republican leaners is a tiny sample. It establishes nothing other than the dishonesty of the Of ABC and the ComPost, which was already beyond cavil.
Memo to the MSM: She is running. But keep spending your money on these phony polls. You will have less ot run attack ads with in the general.
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