Look around you. Notice anything unusual? Cruise the news feeds about Palin's latest activities. Check for buzz on Facebook. Heck, peek in at DU. Soak it all in, and put it through your analyzer.
Review the result, and if it doesn't show you that the ground is literally moving beneath your feet, then you've got false data corrupting your processor.
Search FR for Brices Crossroads' posts on Palin's electoral chances. He's done some great analyses.
RockinRight is a confirmed Palin basher; he will only be persuaded by actual victory, as were most of the Reagan doubters 30+ years ago. Nonetheless, an analysis of the current polls and the battleground states shows Palin can very easily defeat Obama. In fact, shew would shave the easiest time of any of the GOP candidates because of her ability to get lower middle class union white voters to vote for her.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2672768/posts
We have to remember what the election of 2012 will be about. It will be the country class vs. the ruling class as personified by the regime of Barack Obama. The revolt against the ruling class began in 2010 and it was successfully led by Sarah Palin. We brought along independents and moderate and liberal Republicans in many states. We won the women’s vote 49/48 for the first time in many years.
Does anyone really believe that any of these other candidates even understand the conflict between the average person and the ruling establishment class? Does anyone think that any of them are capable to leading the effort to overthrow them? There may be a couple who would like to, but they don’t have the political skills of Sarah Palin.
Does anyone think that if Perry or Romney become the nominee, that the media wouldn’t portray them as viciously as they have Palin or Reagan or Bush? Palin has beaten them. She is still standing.
Those who believe that she will run an ideological campaign like Goldwater, should think again. Her campaign will be selling smaller government, but it will be aimed at those Reagan democrats, who given the choice between a Marxist democrat and an honest, patriotic Republican who thinks about the people first, will choose the Republican.