Highly Partisan Reception Greets Palin as V.P. Pick-Half Say Palin Doesn't Have Experience to Be Pre

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

Sarah Palin is receiving a highly partisan reception on the national political stage, with significant public doubts about her readiness to serve as president, yet majority approval of both her selection by John McCain and her willingness to join the Republican ticket.

Given the sharp political divisions she inspires, Palin's initial impact on vote preferences and on views of McCain looks like a wash, and, contrary to some prognostication, she does not draw disproportionate support from women. But she could potentially assist McCain by energizing the GOP base, in which her reviews are overwhelmingly positive.

Half of Americans have a favorable first impression of Palin, 37 percent unfavorable, with the rest undecided. Her positive ratings soar to 85 percent among Republicans, 81 percent among her fellow evangelical white Protestants and 74 percent of conservatives. Just a quarter of Democrats agree, with independents in the middle.

IMPACT -- The public by a narrow 6-point margin, 25 percent to 19 percent, says Palin's selection makes them more likely to support McCain, less than the 12-point positive impact of Biden on the Democratic ticket (22 percent more likely to support Barack Obama, 10 percent less so). But majorities in both cases say the vice presidential picks won't matter in their vote, and those who do report an impact chiefly are reflecting their existing partisan predispositions.

Similarly, the public divides by a close 43-38 percent on whether the choice of Palin makes them more confident or less confident in the kind of decisions McCain would make as president -- again along sharply partisan lines. Eighty percent of Republicans say it makes them more confident in McCain; that declines to 44 percent of independents, and 59 percent of Democrats instead say it makes them less confident in him. There's no difference between the sexes.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/story?id=5725793&page=1

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IMHO the more they hear/learn from/about her the less Americans may like. I don't think she's going to wear well.

[NashVegas]

1. I Saw ABC Report On This Tonight

And they did everything they could to bury her pathetic numbers with women.

[superconnected]

2. I still don't think she's going to last long

There's just too many leaks in that sinking boat.

[Quantess]

4. Not sure about that.

She's got some rabid fans out there.

[Alcibiades]

3. "81 percent among her fellow evangelical white Protestants"

That's the thing with her: most folks don't understand that she is, in fact, an evangelical white Protestant. The same thing Bush pretends to be.

[krkaufman]

5. Media Bias Watch... Joe Biden is more dramatic VP candidate, contrary to media hype of Palin

IMPACT -- The public by a narrow 6-point margin, 25 percent to 19 percent, says Palin's selection makes them more likely to support McCain, less than the 12-point positive impact of Biden on the Democratic ticket (22 percent more likely to support Barack Obama, 10 percent less so).

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VOTE IMPACT -- ... At the same time, the story in the ideological center is different: Among moderates, Biden registers as a net 15-point positive for Obama. In the same group, Palin shows no effect on support for McCain.

Again, Obama makes the better choice.

[Mind_your_head]

6. I highly doubt that her approval ratings among ANY of those groups

listed is EVEN ANYWHERE near as high as is claimed in this article.

It's more "spin baby spin - spin baby spin"

[LynnTheDem]

7. Why America is in such a total mess? Because far too many Americans

are as ignorant as it's possible to be.