Palin-Obama Gap Melts to One Point

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Obama's new Gallup Poll job approval number is 47%. Last month it was 53%.

Regular Ticket readers will recall how in this space in late November we pointed out that Obama's closely-watched job approval slide was coinciding with Palin's little-noticed rise in favorability. And it appeared they might cross somewhere in the 40s.

Well, ex-Sen. Obama, meet ex-Gov. Palin.

The new CNN/Opinion Research Poll shows Palin now at 46% favorable, just one point below her fellow basketball fan.

(The same poll, btw, has bad news for Dick Cheney-haters; the outspoken former VP has climbed out of the 29% basement back up to 39% now. How do you suppose he's done that without a new book? But that's another story.)

Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to <em>1</em> point | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

whats obama's favorible rating right now?

 

[rightwinger]

Ignoring the foolish Palin bashing ................

I find it curious that so many scuff at the possibility of a viable third party. Sure in the past non have been able to break into the mainstream, but, this is not the past. People are really getting fed up with both parties and non political based polls show that most people still fall right of center on the major issues.

So the emergence of a viable third party could be on the horizon. Now, taking the White House in 2012? That could be a reach, but, making a stake for themselves in Washington, is possible.

Mike

Palin as a third party candidate is even better than Palin as a Republican candidate. Split the Republican vote and Obama will take every state.

Third parties can't win at President. Win seats in your state government, win seats in Congress, win seats in the Senate first....

Before you even consider running for President

 

[Mike458877]

Ignoring the foolish Palin bashing ................

I find it curious that so many scuff at the possibility of a viable third party. Sure in the past non have been able to break into the mainstream, but, this is not the past. People are really getting fed up with both parties and non political based polls show that most people still fall right of center on the major issues.

So the emergence of a viable third party could be on the horizon. Now, taking the White House in 2012? That could be a reach, but, making a stake for themselves in Washington, is possible.

Mike

Palin as a third party candidate is even better than Palin as a Republican candidate. Split the Republican vote and Obama will take every state.

Third parties can't win at President. Win seats in your state government, win seats in Congress, win seats in the Senate first....

Before you even consider running for President

You don't comprehend very well, do you?

My comments were not about Palin, nor were they about a third party winning the White House!

I clearly stated, making a stake for themselves! ..... Thank you for agreeing with that!

Mike

 

[Sinatra]

Following the 1976 Election, there was a movement afoot for a 3rd Party away from the Republican Party because the Republican brand name had been so badly damaged.

Reagan transfored the party from within - that is the fight underway within that same party now.

The problem is, there appears to be no transformative Reagan figure right now.

Palin has charisma, a sound conservative message, and certainly millions of supporters, but not yet the calm self assurance and immovable resolve of a Ronald Reagan. Palin is still too uncertain of herself, let alone her policies. She still fears the media, whereas Reagan simply ignored it for the most part. He knew what he believed, and did not care to ask the media for its acceptance of those beliefs. (much to liberals repeated disgust of Reagan and his supreme confidence)

In Palin's defense, the media of today is a far more brutal and partisan 24/7 machine than it was 30 years ago...

 

[Xenophon]

Barry is really slipping, just like Jimmah.

Palin is rising, just like Ronnie.

They laughed in the late 70s too, and Reagan became a two term POTUS.

And Barry fiddled while the economy burned...

 

[elvis]

Barry is really slipping, just like Jimmah.

Palin is rising, just like Ronnie.

They laughed in the late 70s too, and Reagan became a two term POTUS.

And Barry fiddled while the economy burned...

Is Palin even running?

 

[Chris]

Palin has a job approval rating? What job? She quit the one she was elected to.

 

[Sinatra]

Barry is really slipping, just like Jimmah.

Palin is rising, just like Ronnie.

They laughed in the late 70s too, and Reagan became a two term POTUS.

And Barry fiddled while the economy burned...

It appears he is adding fuel to the fire..

 

[Chris]

Barry is really slipping, just like Jimmah.

Palin is rising, just like Ronnie.

They laughed in the late 70s too, and Reagan became a two term POTUS.

And Barry fiddled while the economy burned...

It appears he is adding fuel to the fire..

No, Bush fiddled while the economy burned.

The economy is in recovery.