CBS Poll: Palin Remains Unknown Quantity
Even after Sen. John McCain named her as his running mate on Friday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin remained an unknown quantity to most Americans. Sixty-six percent had no opinion of her in a CBS News poll conducted over the weekend. In polling completed on Monday and Tuesday, sixty percent still had no opinion about her.
But of those who did have opinions, 26 percent of the most recently polled were favorable, while only 13 percent were not favorable.
More than one in four voters said that the vice presidential choices will matter this year, but few voters say that having Palin on the Republican ticket will change their vote. Just 14 percent said they are more likely to vote for McCain as a result of having Palin on the ticket, while 13 percent said they are less likely to do so. Sixty-eight percent said it won't make a difference in their vote.
Seventy-four percent of voters said the addition of Joe Biden to the Democratic ticket made no impact on how they will vote. But those who said Barack Obama's choice mattered to them were three times as likely to say that Biden will make them vote for Obama rather than against him.
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This poll was conducted among a random sample of 613 adults nationwide, including 540 registered voters, interviewed by telephone September 1-2, 2008. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points; for registered voters the sampling error could be plus or minus four percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.
Copyright 2010 CBS. All rights reserved. But of those who did have opinions, 26 percent of the most recently polled were favorable, while only 13 percent were not favorable.
More than one in four voters said that the vice presidential choices will matter this year, but few voters say that having Palin on the Republican ticket will change their vote. Just 14 percent said they are more likely to vote for McCain as a result of having Palin on the ticket, while 13 percent said they are less likely to do so. Sixty-eight percent said it won't make a difference in their vote.
Seventy-four percent of voters said the addition of Joe Biden to the Democratic ticket made no impact on how they will vote. But those who said Barack Obama's choice mattered to them were three times as likely to say that Biden will make them vote for Obama rather than against him.
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This poll was conducted among a random sample of 613 adults nationwide, including 540 registered voters, interviewed by telephone September 1-2, 2008. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points; for registered voters the sampling error could be plus or minus four percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.
Old Slogan: We are compassionate conservatives, please vote for us.
New Slogan: Vote for us or we will fricken KILL YOU!
Karl Rove and company will do anything it takes to stay in power.John McCain is a very sad man.He could not even stand up to his own party.Maverick!! What a joke!!
Lieberman stated that McCain made a "bold choice" in picking a "maverick who has done exactly the same thing at the state level that he''s done at the federal level." Camille Paglia, a feminist social critic, stated "As a Democrat, I am reeling...(t)hat was the best political speech I have ever seen delivered by an American woman politician."
I continue to be amazed at the amount of exaggerated rhetoric, coming from the contemptuous, and condescending %u201CObama supporting public%u201D. %u201CIt%u2019s bad for politics, and it%u2019s bad for your candidate%u201D.
It doesn''''t have to be that way. You can be civil to make your point. "Even if it%u2019s a bad point"!
I say%u2026 %u201CTrivialize her at your own peril.
Don''t you people ever get tired of being in the dark?? Don''t you people ever wonder why there is never any negative stories on your guys??
My God, how stupid can you be.
See, the dems weren''t allowing any media to be around the million dollar corporate suites and they did not allow any photos of any of your big shots going to or from the suites.
Also, you may want to look this up but it seems that more Wall St money is going to the dems.
So, open up your eyes and mind and cut out the old class envy cra*.
You have your thoughts and beliefs and others have the right to have their thoughts and beliefs. As for far,far, far rights, honey, I''m for a woman''s right to choose but I am not for partial birth abortion and allowing a child who some how has the AUDACITY to survive the saline and having his brains punctured being thrown in a trash can. Now, that''s real progressive.
Who the h*&l said she would be able to overturn your right to abortion. Get a grip lefty, for GOD''s sake.
linymo-are you referring to the Public Allies program that he and his lovely PO''d wife started in Chicago?? Do you mean the one that gets federal money? The one that could be called an indoctrination program? Bet they wear brown shirts and I think I would be one of their targets. Isn''t this just great how all these people are being led like sheep?