Poll: GOP sours on Palin for 2012

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/news/2012_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/12/28/cnn_poll_sarah_palin

Poll: GOP sours on Palin for 2012
By Justin Elliott

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Poll: GOP sours on Palin for 2012


A new CNN poll finds that support for a Sarah Palin presidential bid among Republicans has dropped from 67 percent in December 2008 to just 49 percent this month.

This is the question to which 49 percent of Republicans answered "very likely" or "somewhat likely" when Palin was named:

I'm going to read you the names of a few people who might run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. For each one, please tell me whether you would be very likely, somewhat likely, not very likely, or not likely at all to support them if they decided to run for the Republican nomination in 2012.

Salon recently documented a growing chorus of doubts about Palin's fitness to run for president among influential conservative pundits and even a few politicians. It's not at all hard to imagine that criticism of Palin from the likes of Charles Krauthammer and Karl Rove on Fox can, over time, have an effect on poll numbers. So these two trends seem related.

One also has to wonder if Palin has been hurt by presenting herself to the public in the decidely unpresidential context of a reality show.

[Happyhippychick]

1. The fact that 49 percent still support her is horrifying.

[savalez]

13. Yep, with a capital H!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Well, when she said on her show she'd rather be having fun outdoors instead of being

sitting in some "stuffy office", that detracted from her looking presidential.

[gratuitous]

3. Will the yammering minority prevail, though?

They make for great coverage of dry political stuff with all their colorful yipping and yelping. Sure, it's completely wrong on facts and substance, and is ruinously bad policy, but golly, they're so much fun to cover! Not like those dreary dirty fucking hippies, who keep being annoyingly right about things. The Teabaggers are a fresh, marketable breeze that the insider media cohort just love, Love, LOVE! Can the Teabagger minority impose its will on the Republican party?

[Arkana]

5. If they do, we could be looking at a Reagan/Mondale rerun

except with the party labels flipped.

[Arkana]

4. If only 49 percent of Republicans support her she's toast.

[Tx4obama]

6. Palin's favorability rating has dropped to 33% in Alaska

Palin headlines: Favorability poll result near worst in Alaska

A new report from Public Policy Polling shows Sarah Palin's favorablity rating is lower in Alaska than in every state except Democratic Massachusetts.

In Alaska just 33% of voters have a favorable opinion of (Sarah Palin) to 58% with a negative one. ... 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.

PPP also links Joe Miller's general election defeat by Sen. Lisa Murkowski to Palin's dropping popularity in Alaska.

Ultimately, PPP points out, Alaskans' opinion of Palin is no more than an embarrassment for her and wouldn't matter in a nationwide election -- because she is rated negatively by the majority in every state. Slate's David Weigel adds that -- based on his visit to Alaska last summer -- he sees Palin's drop in home-state popularity as "provincial," the result of resentment of her resignation from the governorship in the wake of her newfound political fame.

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http://www.adn.com/2010/12/28/1622197/palin-headlines-favorability-poll.html

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. I can't imagine that the whole business of supporting pinhead Joe Miller over Murkowski has helped

her stature in Alaska at all.

[Aramchek]

7. yet, she'll be able to win primaries

[DavidDvorkin]

9. I'm still pulling for her to win the nomination

Go, Sarah, go!

[tanyev]

10. *snort*

[Contrary1]

11. Interesting comment left at CNN:

"Comments coming from the right confirm that Palin is losing her standing within the party.

Astonishing enough, the same GOPers who spent two years taunting Democrats with each and every Palin article are now the same GOPers who are demanding Democrats STOP posting comments over her articles, somehow suggesting it is the Liberals who are keeping Palin in the news while GOPers themselves would prefer she just fade away.

What a hilarious turn around."

[Ian David]

12. When contacted by a pollster, ALWAYS give Sarah Palin high marks, to encourage her to run. n/t

[nc4bo]

14. Drat. WTH am I going to do with my bumper stickers? nt