Palin's Favorability Plunges

[swag]

Source: Teagon Goddard's Political Wire

A new USA Today/Gallup poll shows Sarah Palin's favorable rating has dropped to 38%, her lowest since just after bursting onto the national scene as Sen. John McCain's running mate in 2008. In the wake of controversy over her response to the Tucson shooting, her unfavorable rating hit a new high at 53%.

Read more: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/01/18/palins_favorability_plunges.html

[Mz Pip]

1. 38%

is still way too high IMHO. Is 38% of the country that delusional? apparently so.

[patrice]

6. I agree. nt

[ZombieHorde]

15. Agreed. 38% seems really high. nt

[emulatorloo]

24. The "Palin is so HOT!" contingent? n/t

[Submariner]

71. Yup...the Teabaggers prefer T&A to brains n/t

[sce56]

102. The VoteForTheMILF.com A$$hats crowd

http://www.govgap.com/2008/09/28/john-mccain-own-voteforthemilfcom/
John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com?
Sunday, September 28, 2008 | Written by govgap | Printed in BELOW-THE-FOLD, FRONT PAGE, INDEX



Updates:
First, some Updates:


- If you were one of the 120,000 visitors who experienced the redirect before it was changed, post a comment below for the record.

The Redirect has been changed 5 times over 48 Hours:

-From the time this article was published, until 3:34 PM EDT (9.29.08), the redirect pointed to John McCain.com as explained in video and screenshots below. The redirect had received about 120,000 clicks just through GovGap by this time and had just started to be picked up widely by other blogs and media outlets (Washington Post, FireDogLake, etc.) when the redirect was changed.

-As of 3:35 PM EDT (9.29.08) The redirect has been changed to direct users to google.com

-As of 3:49 PM EDT (9.29.08) The redirect has been changed to direct users to a Wikipedia page about domain registration.

-As of 9:11 PM EDT (9.30.08) The redirect has been changed to direct users to a blog entry suggesting that the redirect was a simple prank.

-As of 3:02 AM EDT (10.01.08) The redirect has been changed to direct users to google.com.
Washington Post Picks Up Story, NYTimes Published list of RNC Owned Domain Names:

-Washington Post publishes an Article and requests comment from the McCain Campaign. McCain Campaign denies any involvement, suggesting the URL redirection was a prank they have nothing to do with, and no control over.

-The NYTimes published a verified list of opposition URLS owned by the Republican National Committee


Original Post:

Video:

Visit VoteForTheMILF.com and you will be redirected specifically to a video intro by Gov. Sarah Palin at JohnMcCain.com if you are hitting it for the first time. Note that the redirect sends you first to JohnMcCain.com and THEN to Palin.htm (Palin’s Video Intro) if you’re visiting for the first time, or if your cookies are cleared, or if you’re not accepting cookies. Here’s a video of this taking place:



- URL Registered within hours of McCain’s Decision to select Palin as running mate
- Redirect sends users specifically to a palin.htm file, but only on the FIRST redirect
- Whois Privacy Information Matches JohnMcCain.com Whois Privacy
- URL Held by same registrar
- Note that the .net and .org versions also redirect to the McCain Campaign Website.
Network Tools.com Trace Route:
- 64.203.107.149 (VoteForTheMILF.com)
- 64.203.107.149 (JohnMcCain.com)

I also saw it at VotefortheGILF.com I could get if it meant Governor I'd Like
to F%@k or Grandma!

[LiberalFighter]

76. Probably at least 75% of them are men where their little head works better than the big head.

[Paka]

86. Little Head vs. Big Head

You got that one right! Unfortunately there's a lot of stupid women out there as well who love her. I have a sister who fits in that category. Don't know what her excuse is.

[Demstud]

19. I thought it was lower

But I'm not surprised. There's a sizable chunk of the country who really pay very little attention to what she says either way. Many probably just think of her as the pretty lady that tried to run for VP. I've come across many conservative men too who think she's just being picked on for being an "attractive" and "intelligent" conservative woman (don't ask me what qualifies her as intelligent in their eyes).

[molly77]

65. Conservative men like women who are low on the IQ scale these days.

[d_r]

35. visual aid

[dixiegrrrrl]

77. Thank you!!!!

That pic flashed into my mind when I saw the thread, but i could not find a copy of it.

Sadly, it does explain a whole lot.

[wordpix]

100. link? Not that I don't believe it...

[stockholmer]

122. did this chart maker take basic math? the MEDIAN of anything will always have 50% above, 50% below

not the average, which is the sum of the total value of all the variables, divided by the number of said variables

that chart is pure 'skit' (yes, that means shit) as we say here in Sweden, especially the symmetrical distribution pattern for a so-called average

was it lifted from the quack racialist Dr. Charles Murray's "Bell Curve"?

[d_r]

125. did you take basic psychometry

to understand that IQ scores are standardized with a mean of 100, and 50% of scores above the mean and 50% below? (well, technically not accounting for the scores of 100) - of course this is snark, for humor, but the jist of it is correct. That's kind of what "standardized" scores mean. We could talk about the reliability of the tests, ranges of scores, etc., but really, that's not the point here - it is a normal curve because the scores *are* normalized. If a person scores "100" then they score at the 50th percentile - the median - with 50% of scores below and 50% above - because the distribution of scores is standardized. That's sort of the joke.

[stockholmer]

134. ahhhh, sorry for missing the sarcasm, lolol

[james0tucson]

126. your graph shows

Your graph shows that about 95% of the population is less than two standard deviations from the mean.
Far from what the caption implies, your chart says that most people are very close to average intelligence,
and far fewer than 50% are "below average" in any meaningful sense.

Now if you could show that your graph is wrong in that intelligence does not follow a Normal Distribution, you'd really have something.

[derby378]

63. Wasn't Herr Decider's popularity at 38% during his second term? (n/t)

[Plucketeer]

80. Any chance

there's a missing decimal point? Three point eight sounds about Right.




GOP JOBS PLAN

[BEZERKO]

81. Too high and

what are those 38% smoking?

[Mz Pip]

83. Whatever it is

I don't want any of it. I don't want anything that lowers my IQ.

[Le Taz Hot]

135. It's what they're NOT smoking that's the problem.

[Initech]

104. It should be 0%.

[johnnyplankton]

111. How could it be THAT high?

As far as the MILF theory goes, haven't the teabaggers discovered internet porn yet? SHEESH!

[Frank Cannon]

117. At least 25% of this country couldn't find their own asses with both hands and a map

It is actually a virtue in the United States to be willfully ignorant, and at least a quarter of our population take that very seriously. I always subtract 25% from figures like this, because I know there is absolutely nothing you can do about people like that. God WANTS them to be stupid.

[rpannier]

113. 38 Special

2nd Amendment Sarah

[tex-wyo-dem]

114. My first reaction, as well....

There's actually 38% of (I assume voting age, registered voters?) Americans that approve of this murderous self-obsessed nitwit?!??

Unfuckingbelievable....

[Ikonoklast]

2. But, I *want* her to be the Republican/Teabagger nominee.

The landslide loss and ensuing schism within that party would destroy the Republicans for a generation.

[denverbill]

4. That 38% is also the most rabid right-wingers and most likely to vote in a primary, imo.

I sure hope she runs though because even just running should implode the Republicans. Most Beltway Republicans/conservatives fully realize she's completely unsuited to be President, but her followers view any criticism of her as heresy. But in a primary, Mitt Romney or Newt or whoever is eventually going to HAVE to criticize her. They all spout the same idiotic talking points, so they can't critique her solely on policy. It will have to come down to ability, experience, etc, and her devotees will have a cow if anyone says she's not up to the job. So even if she loses, her adherents will be so pissed they may stay home. And if she wins a primary, she'll go down like a rock.

[Demstud]

22. True.

The Teabaggers got some seriously batshit crazy people through primaries who make Palin look like a bastion of rational intelligent thought by comparison. I think she could have a pretty good shot at the nomination.

[CLANG]

27. So do I, but let's get real here...

[proud2BlibKansan]

55. I don't

She is evil and devious and has won over far too many. I'm also not convinced our elections are not stolen. I think she would have a good chance of winning if she were the nominee. Keep her OFF the ballot.

[Paka]

87. Too scary for the ballot...

Agree with you 100%.

[NYC Liberal]

61. Teabaggers and Republicans like her, so there's hope!

Please, please, please let her be the nominee. Seriously.

[grahamhgreen]

92. She was Obama's best hope at re-election....

[lolly]

3. Is the mass hysteria finally subsiding?

Her career trajectory reminds me of those teenaged girls in the Salem Witch Trials.

For a couple years, everything they said was taken as gospel truth. Every time they swooned or fainted or complained of a headache, another person was thrown in jail or hanged.

Once the hysteria subsided, people just ignored them. A few months after it had all blown over, one of them tried the song and dance on a woman who annoyed her, and she looked like a fool.

Maybe the public has finally reached that stage with Sister Sarah?

[Raschel]

30. I think the waning of attention is because her base is shrinking.

How can one be polarizing when one side disappear?

The left reacts because they can't stand her hateful spouting, the other small percentage she had on the right hate our President and for various reasons and see her as the savior. The moderates on the right aren't suffering her any more.

So that leaves her the geriatric bigots and stormfront.

[trud]

32. geriatric bigots?

"So that leaves her the geriatric bigots and stormfront."

Excuse me? We older people are certified nuts, is that's what you're saying?

[kestrel91316]

64. Geriatric bigots = old people who are also bigots. Stop the silly whining.

We probably have ZERO of that contingent on DU.

[Raschel]

115. Oh brother, WHY would I say that? I was talking about her base.

[patrice]

5. Maybe people are making the connection: "exceptional" America = Un-Ending War = Project for a New

American Century = Sarah Palin.

War on Iran is Palin's current task for her transnational financial masters.

[EFerrari]

11. For some people "exceptional America" is white Christian America. n/t

[patrice]

17. It is essentially a religious position that assumes "Christianity" must have dominion

by any means possible, including war, which just happens to be oh so co-incidentally :sarcasm: useful to our transnational masters, providing a big demographic for our military, rank-&-file and officers, and for war profiteering entrepreneurial capitalists like Blackwater/Xe, Halliburton, and Brown & Root.

[somone]

7. She's toast as far as 2012

[Raschel]

31. She should be toast as far as being on TV.

[wordpix]

101. Faux loves idiots so TV it is

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Should be 3.8, at best.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

18. best reply yet 3.8%.... :)

[Amonester]

21. Yep. 38% of 300 million is...

114 million of absolute dumbasses.

We're a long way out of the current mess, are we not.

[CLANG]

29. Please leave the children out of this!

[callous taoboy]

9. I've been wading through Palin apologists / defenders on FB

and giving them no quarter.

[patrice]

14. That's the right stuff!! Thank you! for your good work!!! nt

:hi:

[callous taoboy]

20. Thanks.

[crim son]

41. You have friends who like Palin?

Ugh. I've weeded them all out of mine.

[callous taoboy]

51. No, but some of my friends have friends who like Palin, and I am not afraid

to jump in tell them that they are stuck on stupid.

[crim son]

58. Gotcha.

I have three hundred plus friends and, oddly, get almost no negative commentary on my ceaseless progressive postings and virtually never have seen a pro-Palin post. I guess I'm just lucky! Glad you're keeping up the good fight.

[callous taoboy]

106. Got somewhat threatened by a bagger a little while ago.

I must have hit a nerve.

:evilgrin:

[titaniumsalute]

10. She's a nobody

You know most people don't read or watch politics. They know a name and that's it. "Oh that lady from Alaska...she seems nice." They poll everyone...not just political junkies like us.

I used to host a call-in radio dating show in Ohio. Even though it was dating and relationship stuff...in five hours we talked about kinds of stuff. Usually people had no idea. One lady one night thought the President's name was John F. Clinton. Yes, she was serious. She's probably one of the people polled about politics also.

[proud2BlibKansan]

Very important that we remember this.

Most Americans don't even know who their elected officials ARE. They can tell you who won American Idol last year or which team won the Super Bowl but they don't pay attention to the political process.

Sarah has charisma to them and you bet she'd get far more votes than any of us political junkies realize.

Then there are single issue voters who vote for the anti-choice candidate regardless of the rest of the platform. I also talked to way too many voters in 2008 who were voting for McCain because he was a war hero. They didn't care what his platform was, they just wanted a decorated veteran in the WH.

Welcome to DU :hi:

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Reminds me of the demise of Lonesome Rhodes in "A Face In The Crowd".

Fools didn't know when to shut up.

[Frank Cannon]

119. Thank you for mentioning "A Face in the Crowd".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/

One of the most amazing, chillingly prophetic movies ever made.

[jtuck004]

13. Few enough people care what this buffoon says. I can't count myself among them. n/t

[Nothing Without Hope]

16. So, even before these latest ugly memories fade, 38% FAVOR her

Depressing but not surprising. Lots of gun-toting bigoted morons out there believe her lies and enjoy acting out the hate.

[demosincebirth]

23. I'm surprised...38%?

[sabrina 1]

25. Just 22% See Palin as Effective President

This poll is from before the Tucson tragedy ~

Just 22% See Palin as Effective President

Overall views of Sarah Palin remain negative, according to the latest CBS News poll, with fewer than one in four Americans voicing a favorable opinion of the former Alaska governor. Almost half (48 percent) view her unfavorably. Republicans are far more likely than Democrats or independents to view her favorably.
Although she has not ruled out a bid for the White House in 2012, few Americans (22 percent) think Palin has the ability to be an effective president, while 64 percent say she's not up to the job. This view is shared by a majority of Democrats and independents. While Republicans are more divided, more of them think she does not have the ability to be an effective president than think she does.

Even her own Tea Party was 'divided' about her:

Even many Tea Partiers aren't jumping on board the Palin 2012 bandwagon. Less than half (47 percent) of those who describe themselves as Tea Party supporters think Palin has the ability to be an effective president, while 39 percent don't.

This poll was taken last October. I would like to see where she would be on the same today.

This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,129 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone October 1-5, 2010. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.

[goforit]

46. looks like she still ahead of last Oct. Scary.

[sabrina 1]

57. I doubt it. Different questions.

People did not want her running for office. Asking if she is a nice person, that is a very different question. Even I might say 'yes she may be' to that question.

[Blasphemer]

67. That 22% is Bush's bottom - AKA the utterly hopeless... nt

[Broderick]

26. good

[Raschel]

28. So that's why her voice was quivering last night. She's thinking of all the $$$ she's going to lose.

[MadMaddie]

91. You noticed that too?

I got the feeling that her confidence was shaken and she couldn't believe she was on the defensive.

[SharksBreath]

109. I got the feeling she was on anti-depressants.

[Blandocyte]

33. Neckline to follow

Heh.

[Auggie]

37. "Heh" indeed

[zen_bohemian]

34. ...imagine that...... sarcasm n/t

[StevieM]

36. I doubt she will even run for president. It will be interesting to see if Huckabee runs, given how

much money he is making on Fox. Palin not running might be enough to get him to enter the race.

[Can of Whoop-ass]

38. Free

Bush crack for eberbody! Let's hab a parrr-ty.

[geckosfeet]

39. Happy feet. Happy happy happy feet. But who in the world is in that 38%?

I know inSannity is. And probably bILLo and the FAUX regulars. But what is that - a couple hundred people tops?

[Athena66]

40. I always kind of thought

that the right-wing males who were Palinistas wanted to f**k her. I don't know about her female supporters. Maybe they want to BE her.

[NewJeffCT]

44. The conservative British magazine "The Economist"

had Palin pegged perfectly - "Boob Bait for Bubba" was what they called her. I agree that I think she was the "dream woman" for a lot of Republican men

[Athena66]

48. Perfect description!

And she worked it at it, too- all those winks and smirks. She knew what she was doing to troll in the conservative male contingent.

[Rozlee]

60. True. The last time I wore 5-inch heels was when I was in my 20s

and my mother asked me what street corner I was planning to stand on. True, she was raised in a generation when a proper lady didn't wear 5-inch heels, but I'd still think that they'd be more appropriate for a night out on the town or a lively session with your husband and not for giving speeches in front of your supporters while you're wearing a black leather jacket. But, that's just me.

[PSzymeczek]

99. The highest i ever got

was 3-inch. And that was when I was in my 20s

[madmax]

116. And the peep toe pumps when McGramps

trotted her out for the first time. I remember a pic of just the front part of the shoes with the toes showing. We should have known then it was going to end badly. ;)

[geckosfeet]

95. Well - very optimistically - if half the population is RW then half of that half is male.

That is 25%. And I KNOW that we don't have a 50% RW contingent.

[mbperrin]

42. What a damn shame!

Tee hee.

[Myrina]

43. Over saturation ...

... let's hope her 15 minutes are just about up so she can take her millions and GO THE HELL AWAY!

[GSLevel9]

45. you gotta be kidding me...

yesterday Gallup had Obama at 48% and Palin now at 38% ???

[shirlden]

47. She lost me when

She exploited her very pregnant, very unmarried daughter on national TV. Instead of running for VP, she should have been running from Child Welfare officers.
I really dislike people who have children, but do not want to do parenting. Sarah is pure trash............

:rant:

[SoCalDem]

49. She was just an attractive woman who read a speech someone else wrote for her

and right-wingers fell for her.. the women wanted to BE her, the men wanted to DO her.. that's all she ever had going for her..

[callous taoboy]

52. Um.... Never wanted to "DO" Palin.

[SoCalDem]

56. Right winger men did:)

especially the Pat Buchanan types:)

[callous taoboy]

105. Ewwwww! Pat and Palin. In front of her fireplace, on a bearskin rug no doubt.

Thanks for helping ramp up a reverse libido before bed.

:puke:

[glitch]

130. I shall never forgive you for that visual. nt

[slackmaster]

50. Palin's fault

:nuke:

[russspeakeasy]

53. Sit down and shut up.

[SpiralHawk]

54. AMERICANS are sick and tired of Republicon whiners

Who can blame them?

Republicon whining is incessant, juvenile, and frankly as unpatriotic as it is unappealing.

Shut up your whining, Republicons, and try doing something FOR America once in a while.

[penndragon69]

59. 38% national INSANITY rate.

[Enthusiast]

62. I'm very disappointed. nt

[craigmatic]

66. This is terrible news. I wanted her to implode after she won the nomination.

[SoapBox]

68. Hilarious! Especially how she Just-Doesn't-Get-It!

...what a maroon this nit-wit is...

[Frank Cannon]

120. It's amazing that if she would just show some measured amount of humility and self-awareness...

her approval numbers would most likely skyrocket.

But she is absolutely, constitutionally incapable of that. She is a textbook narcissist and sociopath.

[LawnKorn]

69. I love it when right wingers take a plunge

[LawnKorn]

70. K&R

[RayStar]

72. Unemployed

Why is she being polled? She is unemployed.

[barbtries]

73. i can't believe it's that high

i never believed gw's 90% either. i couldn't find anyone at the time who didn't recognize what an asshole he was. can it possibly be true that almost 4 out of 10 americans fail to grasp what an asshole she is???

[Turborama]

74. Me too. "Dropped" to 38%? WTF?

I always thought her popularity was in the low teens. I mean, come on, Faux is only watched by not even 1% of the population FFS.

[Tx4obama]

75. New map

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

78. 38% is far too high! What's wrong with America??? n/t

[Sailing]

79. Won't matter. People, such as her, are a dime a dozen. (nt)

[AllTooEasy]

82. I hope she wins the Republican nomination

4 more years of Obama after that!!!

[totodeinhere]

85. I don't. I don't want her to have that nationwide platform and millions of dollars to

spread her vile hate around the country. President Obama should easily beat Romney or whoever so we don't need her to get the nomination just so Obama can win reelection.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

84. Bullshit!

No text.

[Swampguana]

88. I find it hard to believe its still that high

[Lint Head]

89. It's amazing she has any credibility at all. Goes to show you that

there is a percentage of the population that will believe anything just like there is a percentage of the population with mental illness. You betcha.

[delightfulstar]

90. Your village called, Sarah.

They saw their idiot on Faux yesterday, and are wondering exactly what the hell she's doing.

38% does seem a bit steep. Someone must have double-voted or something.

[TeacherB87]

93. That's still too many! 38%!!

Her approval should be 0% given how tactless and unintelligent she is.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

94. 53% of America are hateful people who should be shot

That's what she'll probably say.

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

96. They must be might lonely

Those 38%ers must be some of the most deranged idiots in the country.

[AsahinaKimi]

97. Strangely enough...

At the Safeway today, at their bookshelf near the check out stand, an employee was pulling down the Sarah Palin books, and replacing them with Glenn Becks books. Some things never change.

[forty6]

98. If one talks to some of her supporters, it's amazing to notice how much they..

identify with her, (even tho many of them are men!). They consider her a victim of "vicious" language from "the left" or from "the liberal media types". They, too, have no compassion for the victims of the shooting, it appears, they just feel Sarah (and HER family) are getting a raw deal. Not a single one of them thinks cross hairs on a campaign poster is offensive, but a bulls eye on a democratic poster is offensive, (follow THAT logic if you can).

I am on a message board where about 1/2 the posters are law and order conservative types, opposed to gay marriage, opposed to Health Care Reform, opposed to Obama's every move, let's face it they are ignorant racists and sexist men who have the hots for Sarah. Many of them love their guns, too.

They really believe Sarah has something important to say, she is their spokesperson. Very frightening, in every sense.

[chapel hill dem]

103. Why is all of the attention focused on un-electable Palin?

She is the sacrificial anode of the 2012 election. Are we giving Romney a free pass to become the R nominee? He has a lot of money and a national network to work from.

I think the R's are enjoying us trash Palin so their other candidates feel no heat and do not have to take early positions.

IMHO, of course.

[stockholmer]

123. you had better watch out for John Thune,Tim Pawlenty, or Mitch Daniels as real dark horses w/ upside

Romney will get the old 'knife the Mormon in the back' whisper smear campaign from the bible-banger/wanking 'poster of Palin hidden in the double-wide' crowd

[Dookiestix]

107. Hey America!

What took you so long to figure this bullshit out?

[DissedByBush]

108. She had favorability?

Some people will buy anything.

[WheelWalker]

110. n=38

[progressoid]

112. Stll too high.

[Thor_MN]

118. W F C.

[pinniped]

121. These dipshits think she's the friggin Oracle of Delphi.

After anything happens, let's ask her.

Before anything happens, let's ask her.

FN stupid.

[stockholmer]

124. if Palin nightmarishly wins in 2012, then I'm taking early odds on Caligula's Horse in 2016

Incitatus

[workinclasszero]

127. Palin the teabagger queen vs President Obama next election =

President Obama wins in a cakewalk.

Please don't sit down and shut up Sarah!

Go gettem grizzly mama bear! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[obxhead]

128. Funny, she's still a in high favor here by the number of posts

about her.

Unrec as I'm sick and tired of Palin "news."

[RainDog]

129. Petty Woman

Petty Woman
Talking on the screen
Petty Woman
I never want to meet
Petty Woman
I don't believe you, you're not the truth
No one could lie as much as you
Mercy.

[madmax]

133. Roy might be pissed ;) nt

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[DirkGently]

132. Doesn't take much to crack the Beauty Queen mask and reveal the raging narcissist beneath.

When criticized, Sarah gets ANGRY. She tries to keep winking and smirking, but she's often looks like she's two seconds away from a screaming meltdown. Kind of like McCain, with less polish and experience.

And apparently no one has penetrated her ego with the old saw about, "When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging." Just the kind of folksy thing she'd say herself.

Should we tell her? :)