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Quitting Boosts Palin Among GOP Voters

Poll finds support still strong with base, weak with swing voters

By Rob Quinn| Posted Jul 8, 09 1:29 AM CDT|

(Newser) – Sarah Palin's surprise resignation has boosted her already strong ratings with Republican voters, according to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll. The poll found that GOP voters were slightly inclined to view her more favorably because of the move, although her ratings sank further among Democrats and Independents. Two-thirds of Republicans want Palin to be "a major national political figure" in the future, while three-quarters of Democrats hope she won't be.

Among Republican voters polled, 72% said they would be likely to vote for Palin for president in 2012. Among all voters, 19% said they would be "very likely" to vote for Palin, and another 24% said they would be "somewhat likely" to vote for her. A majority—53%—believe that media coverage of Palin has been "unfairly negative."

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Sarah Palin waves to fans after speaking at an election rally in Florida last fall. (AP Photo/ Joe Burbank )

Sarah Palin signs autographs for supporters during an election rally in Pennsylvania last fall. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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newzjunkie
Jul 8, 09 1:47 AM CDT

While I'm not ready to vote Sarah in as President, I still admire her as a smart woman, mother and spokesman. I know I'll get blasted for my comment, but this is my opinion. I think she is gutsy even though she walked into a rattlesnake pit once she hit the limelight. I don't know of many people who could take all the negativity about her family and still carry on. She may have lost a bit of her way under that pressure, but I believe she'll bounce back.... maybe not into politics, but only the future will tell. Reply

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newzjunkie
Jul 8, 09 2:13 AM CDT

P.S. I am NOT a republican

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NovThird2010
Jul 8, 09 2:26 AM CDT

Yes, you will get blasted. Not so much yet b/c the HuffPo's minions are no doubt still asleep. The truth is that the left truly FEARS this woman not so much for herself, but for what she represents. As much as the left would like to believe that we are in the enlightened age of Chairman Barry, it can be sen every day that this naive and inept interloper-in-chief is running up deficits to astronomical levels and compromising our national security. Come 2010, conservative citizens (like Palin) and moderates who were fooled by Obama's charisma in the last election will turn the democrat party majority out of Congress so that we can get on with the job of being the best nation in the world again. Assuming, of course, the Chairman hasn't turned the Federal Election Commission over to another "czar" who would no doubt be a member of ACORN. Thank God it will have been too soon for the Chairman to have hijacked the Census!

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oldgoat
Jul 8, 09 2:33 AM CDT

Anybody that believes the left fears Palin is seriously drunk. If my chance she would get the GOP nomination she would get eated alive. No experience, can't stay around to complete even her first term, can't give a interview or speech without a script and her main assets is a pretty face. The best thing for the Dems is to have Palin run.

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shonangreg
Jul 8, 09 4:50 AM CDT

desertwingz, gutsy Palin may be, but why do you think she is smart?

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JaneMP
Jul 8, 09 8:56 AM CDT

Yes, liberals DO fear Palin. We are scared to death she might win and fear what this gorgeous but vapid, charismatic but shallow, smiling yet ignortant woman would do to our country.

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kokuaguy
Jul 8, 09 6:52 PM CDT

No, this liberal does not fear Palin. My fondest hope was that the Republicans would be foolish enough to have her on their ticket in 2012. By that time the "fear of the unknown"-- which was the only thing that kept Obama/Biden from winning by a landslide-- will have dissipated. I believe our history making president will then receive an unquestionable mandate that will make it possible to bring about all the change that he talked about in his 2008 campaign. I just hope that economic and other conditions will not make it too late to bring back "the best nation in the world" again, in the words of our friend Infidel911 (above.) Infidel is thinking about the 1940's U.S.A. led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, of course !!!

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JonmarkP
Jul 8, 09 1:59 AM CDT

Ah, yes - the Bizzaro world of Republican politics, where up is down and down is up. Even Bizarro Superman would be lost, here. Reply

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newzjunkie
Jul 8, 09 2:53 AM CDT

Oldgoat it sounds like you are talking about obama. Didn't finish his first term as senator, no experience can't give an interview not only without a script but also without a teleprompter and a pretty face. Now I know I'm really going to get blasted.

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newzjunkie
Jul 8, 09 5:16 AM CDT

Shonang... Because of her work prior to her vice presidency fiasco. I have heard speeches where I agreed with her and she has the intelligence to get her thoughts across to all people. I think that takes skill and yes smarts. But I think it wasn't long before things turned ugly during the campaign. I don't think she was ready for the vice presidency at that time but I felt her voice was a breath of fresh air in a political fog... The old boys club was in for a shock when she got there. But I also think the intensity of her instant nomination to be vice president candidate spun her around in circles. I think it would have been total chaos for anyone to be thrown into that instant role under horrendous scrutiny, magnification and inconsistency from their own party.

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Fondue
Jul 8, 09 8:28 AM CDT

desertwingz, you'll note that once Obama was nominated, managed his unprecedented campaign, that he was ELECTED PRESIDENT. Other than that the difference here is, as a loser, Palin went back home to Alaska and now 8 months later quit. McCain hasn't quit. Obama did not quit to run for president.

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shonangreg
Jul 8, 09 8:55 AM CDT

deaertwingz, do you think she is smart based mostly on her speeches?

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JaneMP
Jul 8, 09 9:00 AM CDT

dessert, Obama didn't finish his term as senator because he was elected president. Sarah quit her term as governor because it wasn't fun anymore. RE: attacks on her. Obama was the first to request security because of the death threats. I read aghast the vicious, racist descirption of Michelle and the daughters--I have to admit not on this site because those here who dislike Obama don't stoop to that. There's nothing that Sarah has experienced that Obama hasn't had ten times worse.

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newzjunkie
Jul 8, 09 11:00 AM CDT

no Shona, I do not base my thoughts of her being smart based on her speeches or her performance in the big political ring and media circus. I base my opinion on her accomplishments prior to that time. I also give her kudos for the strength to stand up to the old boys club like she did, even though they beat her down. But it didn't crush her. I still wouldn't vote for her and don't think the white house is in her future, but I admire her guts and I know from experience, that kind of guts takes a lot of smarts.

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shonangreg
Jul 8, 09 11:29 AM CDT

desertwingz, I'm still trying to understand one point: why you think Palin is smart. You mentioned speeches before, and that and the way she has been portrayed by FOX's fawning news coverage would be my best guess as to why anyone would think she is smart. But, of course, reading a good speech does not require much intelligence; neither does being *portrayed* as being smart. ...... But you've dropped that and now you repeat the "accomplishments" part. So, please, tell me a few accomplishments of Palin that make you think she is smart. I'm not asking about her strength, just about her smarts.

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anchower
Jul 8, 09 3:59 AM CDT

Not surprising. Republicans are all about rewarding stupidity, hypocrisy, absurdity, laziness, childishness, viciousness, incompetence, irresponsibility, violence, thievery, infidelity, rapacity, mendacity, whining, &c., &c.--so long as they're accompanied by flag-waving (or -draping) and anti-government, anti-woman, anti-black, anti-immigrant, anti-tax, anti-environment, anti-labor, anti-peace, anti-Muslim, anti-progressive rhetoric. Luckily they make up less than half the country, and seem to have forgotten how to rig elections. Reply

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newzjunkie
Jul 8, 09 5:16 PM CDT

Shonan..... I have to admit I never studied her or researched any of her work. I'm just speaking as a woman who worked for years in a powerful male world and know how hard it is to stay sane. And it isn't just guts or accomplishments... a woman in that world has to be smart to just get as far as she has. That is probably too simple of a statement for you, but in my mind I find she is smart. I do not get my news just from Fox, I am a new junkie and read and watch all kinds of news, then make my own opinions from the diversity of reporters. Having worked in newsrooms for 30 years I know how twisted and personal each reporter can be. I'll stop here because I don't think I can "prove" that Sarah Palin is smart. It is just my own opinion from watching, reading and using my own discretion to make that statement.

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shonangreg
Jul 8, 09 6:38 PM CDT

OK. Thanks for trying, desertwingz. I know many Palin supporters say that she was bullied by the press, but in my mind she was ridiculed via tough, probing questions. She deserved the intense inquiry just like anyone else running. Palin even more needed to be tested because she was new. Any organization would do something similar if a new person were to be put in a mission-critical position. .............. Palin's very public failings in her interviews made her look like she was not even basically intellectually competent. Her response to the "Bush Doctrine" question was not to admit she didn't know, but to pretend she did. She couldn't name which specific news sources she scoured. These are not difficult questions *even if you've been coached poorly*. ............. The case for Palin being a big fish (a wacky, weird, unstable big fish) in a small pond is easy to make. The case for her actually being smart is much more difficult, and I've never seen anything to indicate she is smart. Sometimes the criticism of her was unfair; many liberal pundits (newser armchair pundits included ;-) jumped on the bandwagon and cited the most minor things as evidence of her lack of qualifications. But in the big picture, in my mind, Palin singularly and spectacularly failed to demonstrate she was worthy of public office. She was lucky to even become mayor of Wasilla.

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shonangreg
Jul 8, 09 6:42 PM CDT

And sorry for intruding on your thread, anchower. m(_._)m

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AClotfelter
Jul 8, 09 4:34 AM CDT

Please Please Please Please Please put Palin out there as your candidate in 2012!!! =oD I WOULD LOVE TO SEE OBAMA DEBATE THIS WOMAN Reply

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foodchain11
Jul 8, 09 10:39 AM CDT

She would, though, say "I don't want to talk about that" and then continue with her empty--oops--hate filled platform. After all, we answer a question when it will be asked by a "not American like her"?

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ksu92
Jul 8, 09 4:54 AM CDT

It takes a special kind of stupid to be a Republican voter. Reply

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Adapt-Overcome
Jul 8, 09 5:12 AM CDT

Typical Republican response. They are idiots and that's why the party of NO is having so much trouble. The woman is a quitter, a liar, a user and a manipulator. She fits right in with her party values. Watch what you wish for? Reply

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cetude
Jul 8, 09 9:00 AM CDT

Yeah but she's all into God, Guns, and Hate Gays-they typical American, who is a red neck.

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Reader64481089
Jul 8, 09 6:28 AM CDT

The "work she did before the presidential mess", she was a mayor of a town which is known as the Crank and Meth capitol of Alaska to 1 term she never finished, within the first 6 week she had become embattled for spending $50,000.00 on "redecorating" the city hall office WITHOUT city council approval and was about to be recalled when she was handed the position of Gov. by the same guy in Washington who wanted to build "The Bridge to Nowhere" oh yea, great work she is doing LMAO and this plus quitting as the Gov boosts her ratings OMFG Reply

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jwilsonte
Jul 8, 09 6:49 AM CDT

these must be phoney polls even a republician would not vote for someone who bail half way into there term after running the state in ground!! that is a low person of course we are talking republicians . LOL take a look at yourselves rep. the company u keep ,rush palin sanford and countless other liars and cheaters ,well maybe she ot as bad as most of u rep. Reply

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Nwambe
Jul 8, 09 7:26 AM CDT

Palin is the the Republican John Kerry. Yes, she has done some good things to revitalize the Republican Party, but it seems like there's so many who are so desperate for *A* leader, ANY leader, that they're hanging on to Palin. I don't know that this is the smartest idea, as there hasn't really been a good Republican presidential candidate since before Reagan (Yes, I said it. Reagan suffered from MASSIVE popular hatred). Yes, she has charisma, but from the accounts of her staffers she seemed to be very prickly and difficult to get along with. Palin strikes me as a cowgirl, and how comfortable I would be to see a President exploring cowboy diplomacy in office once again would be a serious question. Reply

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tosborne
Jul 8, 09 7:44 AM CDT

Regardless of who wins the next election one thing is clear, that the youth remain neglected and thus our hope for the future resides in an apathetic populace. I say this from the perspective of a twenty year old and I won't vote Palin based on her ability to make rash, and even stupid comments, her noncommittal to her position, and inability to read the word nuclear without it spelled out frenetically. Reply

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tmoore
Jul 8, 09 4:22 PM CDT

phonetically

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Antiks
Jul 8, 09 8:06 AM CDT

Fear Palin? Smart? PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPE! The woman is a train wreck. Reply

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cetude
Jul 8, 09 8:59 AM CDT

Of course quitting will BOOST Palin's popularity. Republicans LOVE quitters. And Palin represents the average American: God, guns, and HATE gays! Why do you think BUSH got elected twice? On promises to ban gay marriage and abortion. Now the Republican party WILL nominate her-and they all will be waving their beer, guns, and rebel flags: America: Land of the Red Necks. Reply

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Lula
Jul 8, 09 9:10 AM CDT

She is one of the biggest train wrecks, we have ever had in this country. How can anyone with JUST a little bit of common sense can say she is a smart person is puzzling to most of Anericans. She is after every dollar she can put in her pocket but Isn't that the Republican way? Reply

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tosborne
Jul 8, 09 9:23 AM CDT

Voting for Palin is voting for politically infused emotional chaos. Aside from that She is "somewhat" of a decent Orator. Reply

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rtl
Jul 8, 09 11:38 AM CDT

A decent orator?! Compared to WHO?!!!

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sache
Jul 8, 09 9:57 AM CDT

The two thirds of the repubs who want Palin to be a major national figure in politics must have a death wish for their party. Yes she represents the hard right views very well but the face of the country is changing and i don't think Palin's views represent what the majority of Americans want. Palin and her supporters represent the past. To survive the repubs need to widen the base or pack up and forget it. Reply

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carol
Jul 8, 09 10:27 AM CDT

oldgoat 7 hours, 46 minutes ago Anybody that believes the left fears Palin is seriously drunk. If my chance she would get the GOP nomination she would get eated alive. No experience, can't stay around to complete even her first term, can't give a interview or speech without a script and her main assets is a pretty face. The best thing for the Dems is to have Palin run. " Lets see. Obama took office as a junior senator and 6 months later announced his candidacy for President. He spent the next year and a half campaigning away from his state. He then resigned two years early. Can he give a speech without his teleprompter? Reply

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Fondue
Jul 8, 09 10:44 AM CDT

You could use the REPLY button.

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kokuaguy
Jul 8, 09 7:18 PM CDT

Grown-ups write down their speeches, carol-- the teleprompter is simply a high tech version of note cards. The President doesn't use a teleprompter for informal remarks, or answering news conference questions (nor does he use that little microphone in his ear like the previous president used-- the one Palin should have used.)

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Shannonals
Jul 8, 09 5:40 PM CDT

With her ratings sanking with Independents, she should banish all thought of running and just cash in. Heck, she was talking about book deals while the election was nearing it's end, so that should have been a hint to everyone. Reply

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kokuaguy
Jul 8, 09 7:05 PM CDT

She is smart (but not that well educated); her survival instincts are sound (she grabs opportunity wherever she finds it); her potential was unlimited after being elevated by McCain (stupidly): it was that narcissistic personality that did her in as a governor and presidential candidate, in my opinion. Nevertheless, it may serve her well as bookseller, TV personality, and Republican Party cheerleader/fundraiser. Perhaps it's Todd Palin who has a future in Alaska politics. This family will be with us for a long time. Reply

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