Palin popularity plummets: a 21-point point swing in one week
Friday, September 19, 2008 at 9:01 am
In the week since Sarah Palin’s first major interview aired on ABC, her popularity has taken a dramatic tumble. Per this week’s CBS/New York Times poll, “Obama leads McCain 54 percent to 38 percent among all women. He holds a two point edge among white women, a 21 percentage point swing in Obama’s direction from one week ago.”
That 21-point turnaround among women is matched by an identical 21-point decline in Palin’s approval ratings with likely voters at large as measured in the Research 2000/Daily Kos tracking poll:

New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog has the best round-up of the opining class’s view of the Palin turnaround.
5 Comments
Comment posted September 21, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
It had to happen, as soon as she managed to talk off script… America is learning she has nothing worthwhile to say. I think it says so much about McCain that he would foist this fraud on the American people at any time but especially at such a time of economic, ecologic and international crises. The White House at any cost no matter the consequences? Well, it seems to be backfiring, thank goodness. Palin is not just anti-actual sex education I think she’s anti-any education… pulling out that tired Repbulican ploy of calling anyone who tries to apply thoughtful consideration to our nation’s problems elitists. Frankly, I quite prefer that the people who hold higher office are more informed than me. We’ve already had enough of eight years of “folksy” faux misleadership. I am really looking forward to the presidential and vice presidential debates. Hopefully Palin won’t be wearing a wire a la what Bush was suspected of wearing during the 2004 debates.
Here’s to informed leadership and enlightened forward thinking ideas. That’s what it’s going to take for US to put our country back on the correct path.
Comment posted September 22, 2008 @ 8:53 am
That picture has nothing to do with the article. It’s irrelevant and sexist. You’re a better news organization that this – I come here for independent news, not to see you use the same tactics as Fox.
Comment posted September 25, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
So sorry out export quality in the person of Sarah Palin isn’t better.
As a woman and an Alaskan, she embarrasses me.
(I didn’t vote for her though, I’m proud to say.)
Comment posted October 17, 2008 @ 2:56 pm
You gotta blame big John mcCain for this. Most people have a big build up so everyone at least had a clue who she was. Except for a piece on PBS two weeks before the announcement on Bill Moyers story of corruption in Alska, there never was much media attention to Ms Palin.
And “I can see Russia from my window’ only goes so far as foriegn policy knowledge because some one will inevitably ask:”have you been there/’. Haviing only a year old passport the answer is no. But she might know the name of the Canadian Prime Minister…..
Comment posted October 27, 2008 @ 11:45 am
It’s a shame Americans don’t do their homework. McCain didn’t pick Palin, James Dobson, who tells millions how to vote picked her. Without him, McCain wouldn’t stand a chance of winning, because the fundamentalist vote wouldn’t be his. See http://www.theocracy.org
This is no ordinary election, the men of the religious right have had many tastes of power, and have found a way to become all powerful by misleading people spiritually, and politically. These men are covertly working towards America as a Theocracy where they will be top dogs. Please check out theocracy.org and spread it around, ok?
It’s time for Democrats that are too politically correct to look a little deeper here to what is going on under their noses. Read, Sarah Palin, Trojan Horse of the Republican Party on my blog.
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