Poll: If She Runs, Palin Faces Doubts from Public
(CBS)
Less than one in four Americans, 22 percent in particular, say she does have the ability to be an effective president. Only 33 percent of Republicans say she does.
Sixty five percent of all Americans, and 51 percent of Republicans say she does not.
In this CBS News Poll, conducted one week after Palin announced she would resign, these assessments are even more negative than they were among registered voters before last year's presidential election. Then, 37 percent of all registered voters thought Palin could be effective if it became necessary for her to take on the job, and 53 percent did not.
But many Americans agree with Palin's criticisms about news media coverage of her. Forty-six percent say the media has been harder on her than they are on other political figures. And that percentage rises to 66 percent among Republicans. Only 7% say the media has been comparatively easier on Palin. Forty-four percent of all Americans, and 29 percent of Republicans, say the media treats Palin the same.
During the campaign, a majority of voters agreed that the media had been harder on Palin than they had been on the other candidates.
And assessment of the media's coverage of the other 2008 female candidate, Hillary Clinton, was much the same as assessment of Palin's coverage: in May 2008, 45 percent of registered voters thought the media had been harder on Clinton than it had been on other candidates.
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This poll was conducted among a random sample of 944 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone July 9-12, 2009. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.
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See all 165 Commentsyou are now showing how dumb you are...not because you don't like Sarah Palin, but because the University of Idaho happens to be a great college. It has a law school and an engineering school along with a lot of other great degrees. I don't mind when people put down something they understand, but you obviously don't know what you are talking about because you clearly don't know the facts. Spotting nonsense is spotting nonsense, and you clearly are where as this fine college is concerned. Just because she went to school in Idaho doesn't mean that Idaho has nothing to offer. Do you even know where the state is. Most of you blowholes don't even know geography, let alone facts. Look it up before you make an ass of your self.
She is not good for the GOP
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No kidding. Anyone who thinks this woman is qualified or ready to be president is delusional. Really.
mortarman!! why don't you grace us with some intelligent points as to who would be a better leader for america. as an independant you must have an opinion.
Mortar thinks that the Department of Defense, Coast Guard, Air Force, Dept of the Energy, and the Dept of Education are all "unconstitutional", because the founders didn't include them in the original Constitution.
Seriously - those were HIS comments.
Before she opened her yap she had a better approval rating than that.
Wonder why, eh?
The majority party needs to be cognizant of their arrogant ways in conducting climate warfare and Gore's threat of global governance. God forbid!
People voted for Obama (peace be upon him) because he is black.
There may have been SOME that voted for him because he was black. But MOST voted for him because he is SMART and not a warmonger.
The ONLY reason women voted for Palin was because she was a woman. And the only reason men voted for her was because she was hot. They didn't vote for her because she was smart, because she ISN'T.
What a Seriously Loaded Qusetion that can only be answered with "LOL" Hahahahahahahaha.
When a Gov of a State who is running for V.P is making a speech in New Hampshire and makes a statement that she is in the Beautiful North West, there is something wrong with Sarah Palin.
Sarah You Stupid ______________ the North East and North West are about 3,000 miles apart and somebody who does not even know where they are Geographically has no Business being in Public Office, especially President or Vice President.
Sarah you also used the line "THANKS BUT NO THANKS" countless time last year and it turned out to be a Huge Lie on Your Part and the State Of Alaska's Part. Sarah you are a Laughing Stock and its going to be some real Good > SNL, Mad TV, David Letterman, Kathy Griffin, Lisa Lampanelli, Katt Williams comedy if you do run for President.
She's not qualified, won't be qualified, and can't win.
She's far right, not a turn to the middle, far right, Republican base oriented and that's puts about 27% of America behind her. What does that do? Solidifies the fact that Republicans can't win, are ready to run anyone new, simply to prove a point only.
If you haven't read the Vanity Fair article you should, even though no sources are supplied, we've seen her for what she is and it's easy to see how she handles (or does not) things.
Her ambition is moose sized. Her following is pea sized.
Best bet? Republican Party tells her to take a nice long Alaskan hike and never show her face again. Run her or associate her with those seeking election---Toast, smell the burning?
Com'on Republicans get smart.
I find it utterly unbelieveable that anyone takes her seriously! It's even scary!!!
Reply to this comment by Mortarman29 July 13, 2009 12:00 PM PDT
Wow. You do scare easily!
When you have women voting for her BECAUSE she is a woman, and you have men voting for her because they think she's HOT, and makes their "little man" stand at attention, you've got a problem. People SHOULD be scared.
Exactly! I think it's much worse to vote on race alone.
Palin is an idiot. Of the two, I prefer the candidate that we can control more easily--we worry about Palin, not because she is not uncontrollable--but in her ignorance--who would also ride in on her coattails. of the two--voting based on a woody is the nastier--America has been voting for President based on race for over 200 years.
If we were not voting based on race, denigration where Harold Ford or Dukakis could lose due to the invocation of scary black men or oversexed black men--and castigations of McCain fathering a black child (indicating oversexed black women) would never have been possible or acceptable to the electorate.
....While campaigning in Missouri, Joe Biden calls upon State Sen. Chuck Graham to "stand up," despite the fact that he is in a wheelchair.
....While campaigning in Ohio, Joe Biden says that "J-O-B-S" is a three-letter word.
....In a rare but memorable gaffe on the stump, Barack Obama declares at a campaign event in Oregon, "I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." ooppppsss, that was Obama (peace be upon him)
....Joe Biden claimed that Franklin D. Roosevelt got on television in 1929 to talk about the stock market crash, despite the fact that he wasn't president yet and only experimental TV's were in use at the time.
....On the day of his announcement, he mused about Illinois Sen. Obama: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."
....and so many, many more!!!
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