59 percent think Palin lacks ability to be effective as president, Republicans split 47/40.

[jefferson_dem]

59 percent think Palin lacks ability to be effective as president
By Michael O'Brien - 08/30/10 06:45 AM ET

Almost three out of five Americans believe former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) would not be an effective president, a new poll found Monday.

59 percent of U.S. adults said they don't think Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and potential 2012 candidate, would be an effective president of the United States.

26 percent of adults, by contrast, said they believe Palin would be effective, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll conducted earlier this August.

The poll comes as a midterm election cycle nears in which Palin has made her impact, keeping her political profile high through a successful book, a commentator gig on Fox News, and a series of endorsements and donations to conservative Republican candidates for office.

Palin enjoyed a particularly successful past week after Joe Miller, her endorsed Republican candidate for Senate in her native Alaska, appeared to have defeated incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), a Palin foe, in the state's GOP primary. Palin also drew headlines this past Saturday for her speech during a rally on the National Mall organized by Fox host Glenn Beck.

But even Republicans -- and conservatives within the GOP -- appear split over whether Palin would be well-suited to occupy the nation's top political office.

Republicans on balance believe, 47-40 percent, that Palin would be an effective president. 41 percent of conservatives said they thought Palin would do well in the White House, while 40 percent said she would not -- a close margin among those within the GOP who are seen as Palin's base of support.

If Palin were to run for president in 2012, she might also face difficulty in winning over independents, 63 percent of whom told the poll that Palin would not have the ability to be effective in the Oval Office. 21 percent of independents said Palin would have those skills.

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[bigdarryl]

1. Tweety's head is going to EXPLODE!!! he's been saying she's the anointed on

[MattyGroves]

6. I'm presuming that he means annointed by the people that will determine who the R candidate will be.

I've seen him bring people on who say that all Palin really needs to do is win a few of the early primaries and South Carolina and she's in.

He could be correct. Palin's base of true-believers is the mid-west and the south. If she can knock off Huckabee in those states she could take it.

Does anyone really think the people that vote in the primaries are going to give a Mormon (Romney) the nomination even though he'd probably be the strongest opponent re: the independent vote?

[Alcibiades]

8. You're right about Romney

He's the only one of the possible nominees who scare me in the general election. I'm hoping they nominate Palin.

[DrDan]

2. that is frightening . . .

1 in 4 believe she woould be effective. Someone who runs around saying "don't mess with the momma bear" and can't finish her elected term would be an effective president.

unbelievable . . ..

[Alcibiades]

9. They are pure ideologues

It's not about how she would govern, but who she is, which is a fundamentalist homelander possessed of a mediocre intellect.

They like, and can identify with, her.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. She'd be a figurehead like *. Someone would be running the show

from the background.

[tanyev]

4. Hey, they forgot to mention her influential posts on Facebook and Twitter.

[chelsea0011]

5. And 41% think she would do fine? LOL

[tibbiit]

7. those numbers are too low.

59 % should be 80 %. She could win once the 24 /7 media machine grabs the storyline of the outside/mama-grizzly coming to put the house in order.
Ive said from day one, I wont be surprised by the ability of the american people to swallow propaganda fed to them by the willing media backed by the re-thugs.
tib

[mikekohr]

10. I've Always Believed That 30% of the Voters in This Country Are Nuts

When President Obama ran for the US Senate in 2006 the Republican Party put up a carpetbagger from New Jersey to run against him. That out-of-state nut case, the bat shit crazy Alan Keyes, ran what was the most incompetent, loopy campaign I have ever witnessed. If ever there was a race in which a candidate should have received 0% of the vote this was it. Keyes, a flame baiting, lunatic fringe, carpet bagger, garnered 27% of the vote, nearly one in 3 votes.

It is no coincidence that Palin and Keyes are drawing similar approval numbers. They are appealing to the same slice of the political spectrum, the conservative fringe, the certifiable 30% of the American electorate.

mike kohr

[AlinPA]

11. The media can change that. With their support she can win the nomination. It is not a

stretch because the fundamentalists and teabaggers will control their convention and be out in force in their primaries.

[HughMoran]

12. 25% like her a lot in my state

45% despise her :rofl:

[jberryhill]

13. Online Poll At PBS - DU This!!!eleven

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/436/sarah-palin-poll.html