Palin’s Popularity In Free Fall
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, McCain, Palin, Polls, Republicans
She might be able to salvage it from a particularly strong debate performance, but the McCain camp’s incredibly poor rollout and mischaracterization of her achievements have really crippled their chances.
Gov. Sarah Palin’s favorable/unfavorable ratings have suffered a stunning 21 point collapse in just one week, according to Research 2000 polling. Last week, 52% approved and 35% disapproved of the GOP vice presidential nominee (+17 net). This week, 42% approved and 46% disapprove (-4 net).
Between Sept. 13 and Sept. 17, the Alaska governor’s unfavorables had climbed in the Diageo/Hotline poll from 30 percent to 37 percent; her favorables, meanwhile, had fallen from 52 percent to 47 percent. All in all, she’d gone from the most to least popular White House hopeful over the course of five short days.
I also can’t help but think that this moment really hurt her…
Because as much as the right-wing wants to characterize the Bush Doctrine as some complicated multi-faceted approach to the geo-political landscape, the folks on main street think of it as one thing: pre-emptive war.
And just from my own personal experience talking to Dems and Repubs since the interview aired, all of them have either the interview or have at least seen that ciip. And all of them know what the Bush Doctrine has been characterized as since 2003. And many were shocked that Palin didn’t.
Given that shock, people then started to ask the question, “Well, what else does she not know?” And then the snowball effects starts. And so the drop in her numbers.
Anybody still think this is a genius pick for McCain?
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September 19th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
That’s what happens when presidential nominees pick someone with slightly more executive experience than yourself.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
But she can field dress a moose. Surely that’s a more important skill for a vice-presidential nominee to have than knowledge of geo-political affairs.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Wish I was talking to the same people—I had a client today who was absolutely deluding himself about anything and everything to do with Palin. This is a smart man who owns his own company and is very successful, but he believes that Palin is a reformer, that she stopped the bridge to nowhere, blah, blah, blah….but the final straw was when he insisted there was no such thing as the Bush Doctrine before Charlie Gibson said. He is convinced that the phrase is completely made up then and it means nothing and was designed as a gotcha.
I still think there is a lot that Palin supporters can point to if they like her, but it is just astounding to me how they continue try and sell the person she isn’t.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
How can Ms. Palin be a credible candidate when she’s not even sure what branch of the government the Vice Presidential post is categorized under?
September 19th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Palin on oil exports:
“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,†Palin said. “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.â€
What a train wreck she’s turning out to be. The McCain campaign has cancelled 8 events over the last day because she can’t even handle a simple town hall with prescreened supporters.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
[...] The honeymoon’s over… Posted on September 20, 2008 by Egads! Donklephant nicely sums up the buzz in the blog’s latest post: PALIN POPULARITY IN FREE FALL. [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Of course it is. She’s being exposed as a hypocrite. Her glasses are one example:
http://bofads.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-friend-of-comman-man.html
She’s supposed to be ‘just an average hockey mom’ who puts Country First, but she can blow 600 bucks on designer IMPORTED glasses?
September 19th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
roschelle: I’m not sure that’s a good argument. Cheney doesn’t seem to know what branch the vice presidenct is under either, and some people might argue that he’s qualified.
September 20th, 2008 at 12:40 am
[...] news of Palin’s popularity dropping like a rock, I felt it appropriate to talk about how she got [...]
September 20th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
You know it is over when even the extreme right bloggers and posters don’t step up and defend her anymore.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
“Cheney
doesn’t seem to knowhas at times been intentionally obtuse about what branch the vice presidenct is under for pretty obviously self-serving reasons”Fixed.