Sarah Palin, Tea Party are not viewed favorably by most Americans, latest poll finds

[babsbunny]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/09/16/2010-09-16_sarah_palin_tea_party_are_not_viewed_favorably_by_most_americans_latest_poll_fin.html

BY Sean Alfano
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, September 16th 2010, 9:40 AM

Sarah Palin may have a magic touch with candidates she endorses, but nearly half of American voters aren't impressed by the former Republican vice presidential candidate.

The Tea Party isn't a hit with voters, either, a new poll finds.

Just 21% of those asked have a favorable view of Palin, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll, which also found that 19% support the Tea Party.

Despite drawing large, raucous crowds wherever she speaks, the number of voters who view Palin unfavorably rose six points since August to 46%.

[gratuitous]

1. That can't be true

My teevee is positively smoking from all the heat generated by the wall-to-wall coverage of the Tea Baggers and their "brain" trust. Any second now, I expect to hear Pope Benedict declare Sarah, Christine and the rest to be living saints or something. How could they not enjoy the highest favorability ratings evah? Maybe we need more coverage.

[opihimoimoi]

2. She is a JINX n she don noes it....OMG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ME2uk-wVeA

Its jusdt amazing how they destroy themselves

[K8-EEE]

3. "Magic Touch" completely limited to GOP primary voters

and nutty FauxNews viewers

[TexasObserver]

4. You betcha!

20% of Americans want to go back to Jim Crow, and it's that same dumb 20% that never give up on Bush, never accept Obama as president, and never understand what life in America is really about in the 21st century.

[Matariki]

5. 46% is 'most americans'?

Besides being bad math, that's kind of frightening. I'd rather see that number WELL over 50%

[Flying Squirrel]

9. 46% unfavorable, 21% favorable

leaving 33% who apparently couldn't give a crap.

So really, more like 79% aren't impressed.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. Why is it even that high? That's still nearly half!!! That's about where Obama is on any given day..

These polls are ridiculous. No way in hell that Failin' numbers are on par with that of the president.

No way!!! :puke:

[Bluenorthwest]

7. I think that last is among Republican voters.

That is close to what I read elsewhere, and this very article says 21% overall have a favorable view of her. Less than half of Republicans like her, and trending upward.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. Phew! Gotcha!! n/t

[progressoid]

10. That there are 21 % of us that have a favorable view of her is frightening.

:scared:

[sofa king]

11. Frightening, yes, but it also keeps the Senate for us.

And it makes the Republican Party look just pathetic. Two weeks ago the press was busy banging out the usual mid-term disaster for the Democrats narrative. Now it's, "the effing nutjobs are taking over the Republican Party!"

I don't know what makes these effing nutjobs look scarier than the last batch of gangsters who stole everything down to the cream in our coffee. Maybe they're less able to pull off the traditional Republican swindle of false competence and integrity, as Karl Rove recently suggested.

But George W. Bush was ignorant, small-minded, mean-spirited, incompetent, blindly Christian, warlike and highly dangerous, and few of us here ever saw him as anything other than that. So somehow, other people who didn't see George Bush that way see Sarah Palin and the Teabaggers that way now?

Okay, that is frightening. But I'll still take the Senate.