Soledad says CNN Focus group did not like Palin's "folksy" talk

[JI7]

i think that's what she was referring to. she said when Palin talked like that, those poll rating things they have mostly went down.

[yorkiemommie1]

1. 'you guys'

I couldn't believe my ears when she said that!

[Chovexani]

2. Did you catch the older undecided lady?

She's voting for Obama now! :wow:

And most of them said Biden won and Obama's going to win. Spin that, mofos.

[livelongandprosper]

3. Nor did I. It was manipulative and contrived.

And she sounds like a boor.

[AllieB]

6. That's what we said too. She sounded like an Ovaltine commercial.

[Berry Cool]

29. But I LOVE Ovaltine!!!!

It's got that rich, chocolaty taste both kids AND moms love!

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. It reminded me of Bush's fake folksy texan speak. ugh.

[SharonAnn]

8. I learned that McCain walks on water, cut taxes, grow jobs, gosh darn.

[Sparkly]

10. Yep, yer darn tootin'!!

[PA Democrat]

15. You betcha. *wink*

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[arthritisR_US]

25. what? you guys aren't smoozed by her down home charm? ;-) n/t

[JI7]

11. i thought it was condescending

it seemed stereotypical. most people from middle america or small towns do not talk like that.

[Blue in Denver]

23. Oh hey watch it dere now

Oh I dunno, I can't cownt how many tayms I've said "nucular." And ay'm from middel America, ya sher yu betcha!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. She's right

the line was quite clear

Lordly

That said, she did push the right buttons with the usual suspects in the base

[Trekologer]

24. I don't know if I agree with that

She said that she favored benefits and other rights for same-sex partners. That might have turned off the base.

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. True.... hopefully they will stay home

[grannylib]

5. I would hope so...phony as a three dollar bill. She's nauseating.

Snide, snotty asshole. She's nothing.
Just 'cos she didn't piss herself the rePigliCons will be screaming all over the place that she "won."

[Sparkly]

9. Good -- I found it totally obnoxious.

:eyes:

[SharonAnn]

19. I was shocked by her patronizing attitude towards Sen. Joe Biden.

It was really a shock watching her patronizing him. I wanted to just slap her. The urge was so strong that I couldn't believe I had that almost visceral reaction.

[CrispyQ]

12. She flat-lined every time she got folksy &

also when she said mentioned John McCain the maverick.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. I caught that and it was Perfect!!!!

[Javaman]

14. totally patronizing. winky and blinky are flushed. nt

[OmahaBlueDog]

16. She went to the well on maverick way too often

I also thought the pointing fingers backward bit wouldn't fly

Overall, I though she held her own. Obviously, she didn'tfall on her ass and babble incoherently, which is what most expected.

If the focus group is really representative of a cross section of viewers, I cannot tell you how that restores my faith in the intelligence of the average American.

[kansasblue]

17. the 'shout out to the the third grade class'... didn't work for me.

[Chovexani]

27. Well at least she respects her peers.

[eilen]

18. She dropped so much corn

I was fighting off the crows!

[MichiganVote]

20. They all think we're their "folks" and "friends" now. Assholes.

[TlalocW]

21. Well, Gush Durn

I think we have George W. Bush to thank for people not liking her folksy talk. We've had 8 years of a fake cowboy spoutin' folksy platitudes (and often getting them wrong), and I think America is desperately starving for someone who we can look at and say, "Y'know, I'm glad there's someone smarter than I am running the country."

YOU BETCHA!

TlalocW

[kenny blankenship]

22. Ha Ha! Pwned!

[nancyr]

26. Trite, to put it mildly.

Gosh, by golly, what a plucky gal. A brainless platitude for every occasion.

[kestrel91316]

28. Palin couldn't make her mind up how to say nuclear. She started out

saying noo-kyu-lar and then switched to the correct nu-klee-ur later on.

And that fascist bitch plans to increase the VPs powers in the Senate, which Biden whupped her upside the head for!

[greyl]

33. I thought I heard her try a noo-kyu-lee-ur once or twice, too; ) nt

[dascientist]

30. BETCHA BY GOLLY WOW, DARN IT TO HECKITY HECK

[RainDog]

31. thank you, Jeebus!

please let the American people be smarter than her b.s.

[TexasObserver]

34. Biden consistently scored better on the real time scoring of that group.

I watched the whole thing, and they divided it between men and women, showing those two lines. The women consistently scored both candidates higher than the men did. Women scored Biden higher. Biden really knocked the top out several times in the last 30 minutes.

Biden looked presidential.

Palin looked like a person with good TV skills and a pleasant TV presentation, someone who memorized her points fairly well, but avoided answering questions she could not answer.