Poll: Palin has a 33/58 favorable/unfavorable rating in...ALASKA!!

[WI_DEM]

I guess they don't care for quitters:

It's a well known fact that Sarah Palin is the most unpopular major political figure in the country...one thing that may be less well known is that one of the states where voters have the dimmest view of her is her own home state of Alaska.

We've polled Palin's favorability in ten states over the last couple months. In Alaska just 33% of voters have a favorable opinion of her to 58% with a negative one. The only place where fewer voters see her positively than her own home state is dark blue Massachusetts.

Democrats hate Palin in Alaska but they hate her everywhere so there's nothing newsworthy about that. What makes her home state numbers unusually bad is that Republicans see her favorably by only a 60/30 margin. In most places she's closer to 80% favorability within her own party. Also while independents don't like her anywhere their level of animosity in Alaska is unusually large- 65% unfavorable to only 25% with a favorable opinion.

It's not a coincidence that the 35% of the vote Joe Miller appears to have received in the Alaska Senate race is almost identical to the 33% who have a favorable opinion of Palin. Miller allowed himself to practically become a surrogate for Palin and while that was good for letting him pull off a primary victory by the slimmest of margins it was not so good for his prospects in the general election.

Palin's unpopularity in Alaska is an interesting sidebar but ultimately pretty irrelevant to a possible 2012 Presidential bid. What's more relevant is that a majority of voters in every single state we have polled so far on the 2012 race has an unfavorable opinion of her. And her average favorability in the Bush/Obama states of Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia that are most likely essential to Republican chances of retaking the White House is 36/56. Democrats can only hope...

Here are Palin's state by state favorability numbers:

State
Favorability

Montana
44/50

Ohio
37/52

North Carolina
36/57

Florida
36/57

Virginia
35/58

Wisconsin
35/58

Minnesota
35/60

Michigan
34/60

Alaska
33/58

Massachusetts
27/68

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/12/for-palin-theres-no-place-like-homein.html

[nmbluesky]

1. Montana?

Montana like Palin more than else states in USA.

[WI_DEM]

2. well, of the states PPP has polled.

[KansDem]

3. It should be obvious by now: It's all about the geld...

Palin is in this for the dough...nothing else.

She'll milk her "loyal fans" until the last penny is expressed.

And she'll be laughing all the way to the Swiss bank...

[denem]

4. The GOP establishment is gearing up to take her down

at least as a potential nominee., IMO Ask Karl.

[struggle4progress]

5. Palin's ratings are currently irrelevant: she seems to have no future in public office

The useful information about Palin will be how funds allegedly raised for her are used to attack Ds or to support other Rs

[roguevalley]

6. I've gotten blue face trying to explain to people from other places

family included how despised she is up here. it is terribly embarrassing to go someplace now and instead of the state being the star and the object of everyone's questions, we have to try and explain this sow. She is toast up here. This doesn't surprise me. I wonder how she's viewed in Idaho? She's from Idaho.

[mikekohr]

7. She's a grifter, pure and simple

[DividedWeAre]

9. Grifter is the best reply/descriptor

Grifter is the best reply/descriptor. Nicely said.

[mikekohr]

10. Love your avatar

Tatanka Iyotanka was one of the greatest leaders this land ever produced. Today is the anniversary of the massacre of Wounded Knee which was set in motion on December 15th, 1890, with the murder of Sitting Bull in what a US army general described as a "gentleman's agreement."

[craigmatic]

8. People forget that Obama was polling well in AK before palin was nominated

AZ too. If she gets the repig nod Obama might achieve a landslide the likes of which this country hasn't seen since 1984.