CNN Poll: Favorable view of Palin dipping - She weighs in at a Dan Quayle-ish 39%.

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CNN Poll: Favorable view of Palin dipping
Posted: August 12th, 2009 11:52 AM ET

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser

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.

Palin is considered one a number of Republicans who may want to make a bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

"A 39 percent favorable rating makes it that much tougher for Palin to become president should she decide to run in 2012. Her favorable rating is almost identical to the numbers that former vice president Dan Quayle got just after leaving office in 1993," says Holland.

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[Strong Atheist]

1. 39%!?!?!? That much??? That's

scary...


:scared:

[Turbineguy]

2. That would be

the usual 20% deadenders and the other 19% would have sex with her as long as she shuts the fuck up. It must be the second group that are rethinking their position.

[Binka]

3. Position....Doggie Style or Missionary? Hmmmmm n/t

[Turbineguy]

5. A dirty mind

is a perpetual feast.:evilgrin:

[Binka]

7. Ah Shit TG I Am Pure As The Driven Snow

You were asking for it. :evilgrin:

[Cass]

4. It will be interesting to see if her "death panel" comments further hurt her rating

among republicans. This poll was done before those idiotic comments.

CNN's Jack Cafferty yesterday asked the audience to let him know if they cared about her views on anything. He got 4000 responses and of the hundreds he went through he couldn't find any that cared what she thought. Brutal.

[TxRider]

11. Republicans don't matter..

Independents decide the election these days...

Socially liberal, fiscally conservative...

Her comments will definately hurt her, she has no chance of getting through a primary unless a very different Palin emerges.

[Orsino]

6. She is now without the fig leaf of a governorship to disguise her ignorance. n/t

[Mike Daniels]

8. She's in for a surpise if she thinks her possible primary opponents aren't doing "research"

I'm personally relishing Romney, Huckabee, and the rest of the contenders unleashing stuff about her that will make the stuff she's complained about to date look quaint.

[bigdarryl]

9. The way the media covers her constantly you would think she had a rating

of 80%

[cherokeeprogressive]

12. More if you factor in the amount of exposure she gets here on DU. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

10. She's cooked.

Hopefully, though, this does not deter her from running in 2012.

[Mr. Sparkle]

13. Mitt Romney, when asked for a reply to the findings said ..