20-25% Approval rate for Palin seems really high

[Sheepshank]

Maybe not in comparison to our President, but when you imagine one in four or five adults walking around is in her corner, stroking her ego...It still seems scary high to me. What is wrong with a fourth of our adults?

Maybe what I'm not fully grasping is 20-25% of what? All voters, only voting Reps, total population? How many millions of people does that represent? Freaking aye, what is wrong with so many that they think Palin is some sort of viable, credible force?

[mikeysnot]

1. It is about the same

as the % of folks that thought W kept us safe and did a bang up job running the nation....

[JoePhilly]

3. +1

[Pool Hall Ace]

6. At first I read that as "ruining the nation."

Maybe that is how the respondents read it, too?

[Frustratedlady]

2. There will always be the 22% faithful. You can't talk them down. n/t

[DCKit]

9. Exactly why we need Universal health care with a strong mental health component.

Assuming whatever they've got is treatable.

[Frustratedlady]

12. They have to be deprogrammed.

The lies are so deeply ingrained, they will never be able to sort them out against the facts without help.

After listening to FOX, Rush, Beck, Palin, et al., for so many years, I can't imagine how anyone could ever get through to a large majority of them.

[DrDan]

4. I still see a lot of mccain-palin bumper stickers left on cars in the Daytona area

[knowbody0]

5. that's about the same amount

as those who have no idea where the moon goes when they cannot see it.

[godai]

7. Actually it's really low.

Palin's role is to keep the far RW in line. When Repubs nominate someone against Obama, her role will be to fire them up to vote. She has no chance at being nominated again. The time spent on her on cable news indicates some support, around 25%. That's a terrible number for political success.

[upi402]

8. I know of one, he likes the 'drill baby drill' crap

cuz it helps his job.

Can we be more small-minded in here?

[DaveinJapan]

10. Nixon's approval rating was lowest at 24%

There will always be a pocket of morons who will approve of ANYTHING along partisan lines.

Apparently that threshold is around 20-25% percent. Which leaves Palin exactly where she belongs, and it's unrealistic to expect her to dip any further.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating

[DaveinJapan]

11. Those charts at the bottom of the link are interesting, too...

Both Nixon and Bush read like a stock market crash! (including in Bush's case the bizarre spike we so often see, in this case obviously due to 9/11, but short lived to say the least!)