new polls says Americans souring on Palin

[Liberal_in_LA]

CNN Poll: Favorable view of Palin dipping

August 12, 2009
CNN Poll: Favorable view of Palin dipping
Posted: August 12th, 2009 03:46 PM ET

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser


The favorability of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is down in a new CNN poll out Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Americans appear to be souring on Sarah Palin, according to a new national poll.

Thirty-nine percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday have a favorable opinion of the former Alaska governor and last year's Republican vice presidential nominee. That's down seven points from a poll conducted in May, and it's also nine points lower than the 48 percent who now say they now view Palin unfavorably. Forty-three percent viewed Palin negatively in May.

"Most of that change has come among Republicans and conservatives," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "GOP voters still like Palin — two-thirds continue to have a favorable view of her — but she is not as wildly popular among GOPers as she was in the spring, when eight in ten Republicans had a favorable view of her."

It's unclear if the drop in Palin's rating is due to her resignation as Alaska governor, a year and a half before her first term ends, or if anything else she has done is contributing to the dip in her numbers. The poll was conducted July 31 through August 3, before national coverage of Palin's stinging criticism of President Barack Obama's health care reform proposals.

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[Beavker]

1. new polls says Americans souring on Palin

You mean the REAL Americans, not the Socialist, Communist ones right? :sarcasm:

[Mz Pip]

2. What took them so long???

How much more bizarre does she have to be before her numbers start making sense. HEr unfavorability numbers should be in the high 80s IMHO. THough I do suspect we have a higher percentage of Neanderthals running around this country than I would like to believe.

[JaneQPublic]

3. US to Palin: Thanks, but no thanks. (nt)

[customerserviceguy]

4. She's not running for President right now

She's running for the GOP nomination. And all the airtime she gets is sucking the oxygen out of the room for Romney, Huckabee, etc.

By that measure, she's winning. We had damned well better hope that President Obama looks like a success three years from now.