Palin’s Popularity Among Alaskans Continues to Fall

[cboy4]

Ah doggonnit, say it ain't so, you betcha Joe Sixpack is seeing through my b.s. Ya betcha.



Jim Carlton reports on the presidential race.

Sarah Palin remains a big draw on the campaign trail, but the Alaska governor’s popularity back home continues to drop since she joined the Republican ticket as John McCain’s running mate.

Palin’s positive rating dropped to 65% as of Monday from 68% on Sept. 22, according to a survey of likely Alaska voters by Anchorage pollster Ivan Moore. On Sept. 2, her positive rating was a stratospheric 82%, according to Moore’s poll then. The governor’s negative rating in Alaska, meanwhile, has shot up to 30% — the highest since she took office in 2005, according to Moore. On Sept. 2, it was just 13%.

Moore said a big reason Palin’s popularity has taken a hit is that she has taken on partisan attacks against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden. Many Democratic Alaskans who once supported her have been turned off by the attacks, he said.

Other factors that could be at play: The governor’s role in Troopergate, the scandal involving her alleged attempts to get a former brother-in-law fired from his job as a state trooper. Many Alaskans have also groused about the presence of many McCain operatives in Alaska since she was named to the ticket.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/07/palins-popularity-among-alaskans-continues-to-fall/

[MarianJack]

1. The presence of many McCain operatives in Alaska...

...SINCE she was named to the ticket.

HMMM...

PEACE!

[orwell]

2. That's the best picture...

...I've seen of her.

[codjh9]

3. Can you believe that many still like here, though? n/t

[sattahipdeep]

4. Revenge?

Meg Stapleton, a local spokeswoman for the McCain-Palin campaign, said Todd Palin is answering Branchflower's questions but isn't hopeful of a fair outcome.

"Todd certainly wants to make sure that everyone knows he has nothing to hide,"

http://www.adn.com/troopergate/story/549113.html


And there is the governor's aide, Frank Bailey, caught on tape admitting he has information that came from Wooten's workers' comp file.

The very file that includes pictures, taken by none other than Todd Palin, of Wooten riding a snowmachine trying to prove the trooper was not injured.

Here's why this is all so damaging to the governor. It's one thing to try to get a trooper fired because you believe he is a danger to the public. But using your considerable power as governor to block the benefits of a former family member you have a long-running dispute with moves this scandal into a new realm.

It becomes about one thing and one thing only, revenge. Not public good, but settling a score.

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/532372.html

[DevonRex]

5. Cboy, thank you very much. I've been really weirded out by a lot

of Alaskans since Palin got the nod. Perhaps they will come to their senses.

I had always thought that Alaska was the place people went when they didn't want anybody telling them how to live their lives. It was quite a shock learning of the anti-gay bigotry of Palin's church and that a large part of the town seems to be modern day fundie puritan types.

Whatever happened to their desire to live their lives as they choose and not forcing other people to conform to their own narrow minded beliefs? I thought they were live and let live kind of folks up there.

I'm truly disappointed in that state. But if the trend you reported on keeps going, perhaps there's hope?

[BurtWorm]

6. So how much time do Republicans have to cite the 'qualification' 'Most popular governor in the US?'

:patriot: