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Not really a surprise...not many favor incompetent quitters.
I hope she plans on running for President...it could make for the funniest political campaign ever.Among women, who, theoretically, should form the base of Palin's support, nearly four in ten (39 percent) have a strongly unfavorable impression of her while just 20 percent were strongly favorable. Overall 39 percent of women had a favorable impression of Palin while 57 percent had an unfavorable one.
The song remained the same among political independents. Nearly twice as many independents had a strongly unfavorable opinion of Palin as had a favorable one -- 32 percent to 18 percent. Among all independents, 45 percent has a favorable image of Palin as compared to 47 percent who felt unfavorably toward the former governor.
The Fix - The most important number in (Palin) politics today
Let's face it. The traditional view of women in this country is one of a liberal. Nothing wrong with that, it's everyones right to choose what party they support. They are more likely to be Democrats than Republican. I believe this is why the MSM, DNC and left wing loonies attacked her, her family and her politics so visciously. First, they were caught totally off guard by McCain's choice and when you don't have time to build a case against her politics you do the second rule in the DNC playbook. Launch a personal smear campaign against her and her family the likes of which have NEVER been seen in American politics. Secondly. They just can't stand the idea of a Republican woman being the first one elected to the WH.
I think there are some good points in here about what the media elected to focus on and why. And I think it went both ways.
Obama and Palin were relative newcomers to the national scene without a big long resume to pick apart. So with both of them the media seemed to spend a lot of time "vetting" their religious and personal affiliations and relationships.
But I don't think either of them suffered from an unprecedented level of personal scrutiny. It was just about the only thing the media had to go on - with both of them.