Palin's Favorability Ratings Tumble (per The Politico)
"Gov. Sarah Palin's favorable/unfavorable ratings have suffered a stunning 21 point collapse in just one week, according to Research 2000 polling. Last week, 52% approved and 35% disapproved of the GOP vice presidential nominee (+17 net). This week, 42% approved and 46% disapprove (-4 net).
Earlier this week, Newsweek also saw the drop in other polling. "Over the course of a single weekend... Palin went from being the most popular White House hopeful to the least."
Now, one MIGHT look at these numbers and proclaim this as evidence certain that the liberal media has it in for Sarah Palin (and Republicans in general), and this is a direct result of the terrible "disrespect" she has received from the Fourth Estate.
Or, one could look at it in a more circumspect way. I think the sentiment that best captures this viewpoint is "it's about damn time." Or perhaps, "what took you so long?!"
God forbid the media expose a candidate for they sham they are, rather than get lambasted as anti-American, Commie-loving socialists, as they are typically called when daring to criticize those on the right.
What's funny to me is all they really did was ask questions. For once, all they really did was do their job. It's about damn time.
Meanwhile, if you critically analyze her favorability numbers, you'll see her support is essentially the same percentage as those who indicate they will vote for their Republican candidate for Congress this fall (the generic ballot). That to me make makes complete sense - knowing what we do about her, who the hell would really like her other than those who are diehard Republicans anyway??
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IMO neither party has any substance. This is the year where you put your best minority forward. Nothing less than a minority will win, and ideas don't matter. Also, its a little bit of love-at-first-sight politics, esp with Palin. Well, Obama too.
I am sad to be living in America in this day and age when we should be able to do anything: cure disease, eat five-course meals from a tube, ala astronaut food, fly and live like the Jetsons... (I stole that last reference)... But nonetheless, we are living in an America where our best, the people we put forward to potentially lead our country for the next four years, have campaigns built on spectacle and sham.
Palin, as you have pointed out, is our sham. She has no history of any kind that would suggest she could be President of the United States. I know Abraham, and she is no Abraham Lincoln!
Obama, is our Great Black Hope with a chance to become the first man in the White House since Bill Clinton. I am going to put those eight years of Bush behind me now and ignore anything he may have done worth merit because of the atrocities committed on his watch. But even Obama has to ask himself at the end of the day, beyond the rhetoric, "if I should find myself in the White House, what will I do to top that?" In other words, what can he do on Day 2 that will live up to his promise?
I am bitter to be an American, but any alternative seems even worse. There was a time I wanted to pack it in and move to Israel. No longer. Canada has great beer, but a pre-1980's Soviet health care system. I'll fight it out in America and keep my head tucked in just in case.
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