Sept. 3, 2008
CBS Poll: Palin Remains Unknown Quantity
Before Crucial Convention Speech, Most Voters Have No Opinion Of McCain's VP Pick
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Play CBS Video Video Palin Prepares For Prime Time Sarah Palin is preparing for her prime time address at the Republican National Convention. Will she talk policy or address the questions that have arisen about her? Maggie Rodriguez reports.
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Video Palin, Politics And Pregnancy Governor Sarah Palin is a hot topic for many women. The question is whether a mother of five can be an effective vice president. Maggie Rodriguez leads a discussion on the subject.
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, left, smiles after introducing his Vice Presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in Dayton, Ohio., Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Timeline Palin's Path A look at Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's life and career
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Photo Essay Sarah Palin Alaska's youngest and first female governor tabbed to be McCain's running mate.
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.
Read The Complete PollThis 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.
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See all 463 CommentsOld 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?
Keep taking up the yingyang media,you''re doing a good job.
ABOUT SARAH PALIN:
http://webpages.charter.net/suasponte/
If you really want to know Sarah Palin''s history (in detail) this is a "must read". It was written by Anne Kilkenny, another resident of Wasilla, Alaska.
We know ye well, Sarah.
Posted by jimfinster at 12:16 PM : Sep 05, 2008
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Have you ever heard of aerial hunting? It''s a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then killed at point-blank range.
Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers to shoot down wolves using aircraft. We have to get the word out about this!
Please watch this powerful video by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, and then share it with every wildlife lover you know:
http://actionfund.defenders.org/palinvideo
This is a big FRAUD ,Them keeping her away from the media.. is all you need to know , Even they are not confident what will come out of this Alaska separatist mouth ,or if she will be ask to name a leader of a certain country.
they are exploting this woman to get sucker votes ,you know!have her patrol her down syndrome kid out and about .
the former tv sportscaster had no clue on what a VP does.
This is insane think about it she is heartbeat away from being President .
not for student council but to decide if America if in a conflict should release its nuclear weapon.
Say what you will about Senator Obama he is close to 50 years, already show he carries the judgement; and have joe biden to consult should this ever take place.
1. Do you support a woman''s right to birth control?
2. Do you support a woman''s right to the morning after pill?
3. Do you support comprehensive *** education or just abstinence training?
4. What scientific facts support your beliefs concerning a woman''s reproductive rights?
I think her answers could show how far-far-far right so is.
What is so laudatory about having unprotected intercourse at age 17 or taking up a high stress job when you have an infant at home, a pregnant teen and other young children to care for? I am sick of the hypocrisy of the far right.
We know ye well, Sarah.
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