Kos Poll: GOPers Say Palin More Qualified Than Obama

[babylonsister]

:scared:

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/02/kos_poll_gopers.php

Kos Poll: GOPers Say Palin More Qualified Than Obama
February 2, 2010 10:16 AM


A new survey for a liberal website shows GOPers overwhelmingly believe ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is more qualified to serve in the WH than Pres. Obama.

More than half, 53%, say Palin is more qualified than Obama, while 14% say she is not. Meanwhile, 63% of self-identified GOPers say Obama is a socialist.

The poll, conducted by Research 2000 for the liberal DailyKos website among 2,003 self-ID'd GOPers between Jan. 20-31, is clearly intended to embarrass the party. It surveys GOPers on questions about Obama's birthplace (36% do not believe he was born in the US, while 42% think he was) and whether ACORN stole the '08 elections (21% think they did, 24% say otherwise).

39% of GOPers, a plurality, think Pres. Obama should be impeached, while 32% say he should not be. And 31% of GOPers say Obama is a racist. In most questions, Southerners choose the anti-Obama side in higher proportions than those from other regions in the country.

Palin leads the pack among possible WH contenders, according to the Kos poll, though not by much. She scored 16% of the vote if a GOP primary were held today, leading ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney (11%), ex-VP Dick Cheney (10%), ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (7%) and ex-AR Gov. Mike Huckabee (7%).

MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) scored 3%, while Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) both won 2% of the vote. 42% say they remain undecided.

The poll had a margin of error of +/- 2%.

[MUAD_DIB]

1. Meanwhile those 53% of GOPers are 100% cracked.

$arah certainly showed leadership skills with quitting her job.


Please, please, please!, $arah!!!!!!! Run for the presidency!

[treestar]

19. Love your way of spelling $arah!

:rofl:

[brooklynite]

2. Well, of course, she's an AMERICAN CITIZEN

Now, if you're going to let just any FOREIGNER from Hawaii walk in and become President.....

[BlueIdaho]

28. Really? Have you seen her birth certificate?

[Brewman_Jax]

3. That answers a few questions

including objectivity and GOP disingenuousness. :puke:

[Hawaii Hiker]

4. Well, it's official, the Republican party is

detachted from reality, & mentally unstable in need of professional help..

Like President Obama said at the Republican event on Friday, how can there be a dialogue when people believe utter non-sense (death panels, Obama isn't a US citizen, etc.) like this..

BTW, WTF do they want to impeach Obama for?...

[CanonRay]

6. Why, for being a socialist.

Isn't that obvious? :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[prolesunited]

13. I wish he was a socialist

I have to laugh when they decry him as the most liberal member of the party. Yeah, right.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

24. He wasn't even the most liberal Senator in his state.

Durbin is to his left.

[Vincardog]

5. Why not run on down to your local cracker factory and take your own poll?

IF Faux SnewZ says it 30% of the GOP would believe that JEbesus has returned and they just needed to
put the poison in their cool aid to meet him.

[peggygirl]

7. This is exactly why we are in the shape we are in as a nation.

It's all about an ignorant public. And they are proud of it!

[Nancy Waterman]

16. Totally agree with peggy girl

Widespread ignorance and no attempt to change it, in fact proud of it, is destroying the nation.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. no wonder other nations shake their heads at us

they think the US has a screw loose

[quantass]

9. Let's hope they TRULY believe that

But me thinks they are just playing to the ears ... when election time comes most of them will likely not be stupid enough to put Palin against Obama. They're stupid but they can't be this stupid. But here's hoping they are!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

10. This poll was commissioned to find a specific conclusion

I think the conclusion that Republicans are nuts is correct.

But for an idealogical entity (like DailyKos) to fund polling on how fucking crazy the other side is... well, it's just kind of silly.

Good PR or advocacy, but probably not much of an advance in sociology.

[AspenRose]

11. In what respect, Charlie?

How could ANYONE in their right mind think that someone who attended five or six colleges to get ONE degree and quit her executive position as governor mid-term to promote a book and work on Fox News is somehow more qualified than a Columbia-and-Harvard-educated constitutional scholar?

Clearly these idiots ALSO think she's more qualified than:

Mitt Romney (undergraduate valedictorian and summa cum laude, Harvard JD/MBA, actually COMPLETED his term as governor)

and

Mike Huckabee (though not as strong academically as Romney, finished his undergraduate religion degree EARLY, magna cum laude, and has the third-longest tenure of any governor in Arkansas, which certainly confers experience). Even Huckabee's right wing religion creds are better than Sarah's, being an ordained minister.

Flavor-of-the-week Cosmo Brown has served longer in government (3 terms each in Mass House and Senate) and is a JAG in the Army National Guard! (BA cum laude, Tufts, JD Boston College)

This tells me they hate uniquely educated, qualified and experienced people, regardless of what side of the aisle they're on, and that enforcing an agenda and winning elections are more important than actual governance....we've known that for a while.

They can forget about Dick Cheney; hopefully he'll be in jail!



BUT hey, it's their party and their money - let them wallow in ignorance and allow her to lead the GOP over the cliff if that's what they TRULY want! Those reality-based 14% GOPers better save themselves before it's too late! :popcorn:

[HopeOverFear]

12. Why I'm betting some DUers believe Grandma Palin's more qualified than Obama

based on her recent observations of Rahm Emanuel.

[Sheepshank]

14. Short term memory...they forgot these little gems

Palin more qualified? "In what way Charlie?"

Quote:
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil."

Quote:
"Well, it certainly does because our -- our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia ... We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience,

Quote:
"Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" Couric: "Can you think of any?"
Palin: "Well, I could think of -- of any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a Vice President, if I'm so privileged to serve, wouldn't be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today." --unable to name any Supreme Court decisions other than Roe v. Wade, CBS News interview, Oct. 1, 2008

Quote:
"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."

Quote:
"How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country. And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."

Quote:
"It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out." --Sarah Palin, announcing her resignation as governor, July 3, 2009

Quote:
"We realize that more and more Americans are starting to see the light there and understand the contrast. And we talk a lot about, OK, we're confident that we're going to win on Tuesday, so from there, the first 100 days, how are we going to kick in the plan that will get this economy back on the right track and really shore up the strategies that we need over in Iraq and Iran to win these wars?"

Quote:
"There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women." --Sarah Palin, misquoting former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, who said women should "help" other women,"

Quote:
"Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first." --Sarah Palin, billed by John McCain as the nation's foremost expert on energy, clumsily answering a question while speaking off the cuff at a town hall meeting, Grand Rapids,

Quote:
"When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism, or maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, 'Man, that doesn't do us any good, women in politics, or women in general, trying to progress this country." --Sarah Palin, on complaints from Hillary Clinton's campaign about sexist coverage, Spring 2008

[CakeGrrl]

15. That's how ignorant they are. You should have to take a qualification test

to vote.

[Ganja Ninja]

17. You could have substituted Bush's dog Barney for Palin and got the same response

And I object to the use of the word "think" in this article. If these people could think they wouldn't be Republicans,

[Orsino]

18. Therefore, she isn't. That was easy. n/t

[centristgrandpa]

20. i saw a poll that stated palin...

taste more like chicken than turkey, according to the cross-dressing GOPerrs...

[steven johnson]

21. This poll sample was skewed -- Republicans are crazy but not this crazy

I suspect the Far Right members of the Republican party actually does reflect the totally weird views this survey suggests. I suspect that the more moderate segment of the Republican Party was underrepresented.

A poll is only as good as its sample and this poll oversamples older (37.09 percent of the sample is over the age of 60), southern (42.24 percent of the sample hails from the old Confederacy plus Kentucky) men (56.16 percent of the sample are men). It is a great poll if we wanted to get insight into the views old southern men who vote Republican. While that's certainly the stereotype, the face of the GOP is broader than that.

http://mydd.com/2010/2/3/skewed-sa

A poll in December reported that 35% of Republicans thought that Obama should be impeached. I suspect that this is closer to the real numbers.

By David Weigel 12/9/09 10:38 AM
Public Policy Polling has another mind-bending partisan number from its national survey. Right now, 20 percent of Americans “support the impeachment of President Obama for his actions so far.” That number includes 35 percent of Republicans, to only 15 percent of independents and 10 percent of Democrats.

http://washingtonindependent.com/70241/poll-35-percent-of-republicans-want-to-impeach-obama

[dsc]

23. I am not sure how skewed those numbers actually are

There is a tremendous gender gap in politics meaning that Republicans are likely majority men while Democrats are likely majority women. I will admit it may well be skewed toward southerners but again, I don't think it is as skewed as the numbers would at first suggest. Of the fourty-one GOP Senators nineteen are in those states. That is 46%. In the House it is 81 members out of 178 which is 45.5%. While those aren't necessarily the totally correct proportions of GOPers due to gerrymandering and close races in some states it isn't outlandish either. I will say the old almost certainly are over represented but otherwise I don't think there is a huge problem with that sample.

[DailyGrind51]

22. Remember, they voted for "W" twice!

[NorthCarolina]

25. and Tancredo thinks these folks could pass a Literacy Test to vote?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I can foresee a permanent Democratic majority if literacy tests are implemented. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

[GoCubsGo]

26. Well, she is--by their standards.

Racism aside, consider that they vote style over substance. Just look at the video of Palin with the notes on her hand. Watch how she poses on the chair like she's some sort of centerfold model. That's nothing new. This woman got where she is because she jiggles her titties, which is what that crowd likes. They don't want intelligence. They want sex appeal and macho shit. Not only is President Obama black, he's smart, and he doesn't behave like he's in some sort of he-man beauty contest. Of course, he's not "qualified."

[LatteLibertine]

27. I'm down

from now on she's $arah.