Poll says Palin is More Popular than Obama and McCain

saveuplife wrote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20080905/pl_rasmussen/palinpower20080905

I figured this would happen. For those of you who said she did awful during her speech, I don't know what you were looking at.

Not surprising. See people like people who haven't lived in Washington.

So depressing. As if we weren't already the laughing-stock of the world...

TheVoiceInside wrote:

I wonder how much of this is a result of the attacks on her by the democrats just before the convention. It seems that there was a build up created by all the controversy surrounding her. And people just tuned in to watch what she was all about. I guess if the dems would have just said nothing about her then nobody and the media would have given a shit about her.

I was thinking the same thing. It sounds like a strategy on McSames part. But the republicans were saying a lot of "They are saying this and that and its not fair". They were bringing up all her issues and forcing the Dems to defend themselves and talk about it.

Then with all of the BS flying that got millions more to watch. Give her a good speech and BAM.
Don't look at the man behind the curtain pulling strings.

Well, everyone seems to be caught up in the pregnancy thing. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks more issues will be brought to light that will sway opinions of her.

Build 'em up, knock 'em down ...

Enkidu wrote:

So depressing. As if we weren't already the laughing-stock of the world...

You are only the laughingstock when you go to other country and act like a pompous ass. I've visited dozens of countries and even though my politics don't always agree with theirs we have beers and conversation because I respect their opinion.

Don't act like a jerk-off and you won't be treated like one.

Every time you travel you are an ambassador of sorts regardless of your destination, you are always representing some place.

unsung wrote:

You are only the laughingstock when you go to other country and act like a pompous ass. I've visited dozens of countries and even though my politics don't always agree with theirs we have beers and conversation because I respect their opinion.

Don't act like a jerk-off and you won't be treated like one.

It's kind of hard not to be considered a jerk off in other countries when the two top officials are 1) a secretive asshole and 2) someone who can't even speak without fumbling over the words that are dribbling from their lips. These are the people who represent us.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/09/female_voters_n.html

Female voters not thrilled with Palin, poll says

Email|Link|Comments (122) Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor September 3, 2008 10:42 AM

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate isn't paying dividends with many women -- at least not according to a national poll released this morning and conducted for a group backing Barack Obama.

The survey done for EMILY's List, a political action committee that supports female candidates who support abortion rights, found that the Democratic ticket leads among female voters 52 percent to 41 percent, and 53 percent of female voters say the Democrats are better at understanding the issues and concerns important to women, while only 35 percent say the Republicans are.

Also, 59 percent of female voters say McCain picked the first-term Alaska governor "out of political considerations," while only 20 percent say he chose her based on experience on qualifications. That's the reverse of how female voters regard Obama's choice of Joe Biden, the poll found.

Given a description of the biographies of Palin and Biden, 41 percent of those surveyed said they found Palin's story appealing, lower than the 64 percent for Biden's.

And told about her position on abortion -- she opposes it even in cases of rape and incest -- 56 percent said that gave them a less favorable view of Palin.

Palin has directly appealed to female voters, particularly those who supported Hillary Clinton over Obama in the Democratic primaries, by saying they had the chance with her to break the highest, hardest glass ceiling once and for all.

The poll of 800 female voters was conducted by Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group on Sunday and Monday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

I thought she did exactly what she needed to do at the speech, and it is no surprise of her current popularity. However, she is basically as popular as she can get at this point and is completely overshadowing McCain. The only way she can go at this point is down. McCain himself needs to step in and get in the spot light so if Palin falls, the whole ticket doesnt fall with her. I still think Obama ends up winning in the end, but I think McCain certainly has given himself a chance with picking her.

unsung wrote:

You are wrong. When you travel you represent you. Europeans are very smart people who probably know more about politics than 85% of the people here.

I'm wrong? So the officials we elect and are shown on the news across the world making decisions for us don't represent us to a lot of people who otherwise do not come into contact with americans. You expect travelers to offset that?