Birthers love Sarah Palin far more than any other 2012 GOP hopeful

[Faygo Kid]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/02/birthers_love_sarah_palin.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

The new poll from the Dem firm Public Policy Polling finds that a majority of likely GOP primary voters falsely believe Obama wasn't born in the United States. But this breakdown of their attitudes towards Sarah Palin is of particular interest:

A 51% majority of national GOP primary voters erroneously think President Obama was not born in the U.S. 28% know that he was. With the latter, Palin's favorability rating is 41-52 -- other than Ron Paul, the only candidate these voters view negatively. But with birthers, she has a soaring 83-12, far higher than for any of the others.

Birthers like Palin more than all the other 2012 GOP hopefuls to an overwhelming degree. And she is the only 2012 hopeful aside from Ron Paul who is viewed negatively by Republicans who know the President was born in America. I'd say this tells us a lot about the secret to Palin's appeal and about who she appeals to.

Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin report today that polls show Palin trailing significantly among GOP primary voters in early-voting states, folks who tend to take their role in picking a presidential nominee rather seriously. As Smith and Martin speculate, this suggests that Palin's general popularity among GOP primary voters -- which remains very high -- is rooted less in a desire to see her elected to a position of awesome responsibility and more in her ability to give voice to their contempt for Democrats.

That intepretation is supported by the above polling, presuming it's accurate. It seems fair to speculate that the success of Palin's approach -- her grievance-mongering, her strident attacks on Obama, her virtuosity in crafting the most lurid formulations to paint Obama as an alternately weak and tyrannical figure -- is rooted in her unique ability to speak directly to the far right wing base's seething underbelly of anti-Obama hatred.

This has enabled her to tighten her emotional grip on her legions of fervent supporters. But Republicans who are informed enough to know that the president is American and who aren't suffering from the most full-blown varieties of Obama Derangement Syndrome are well aware that she's bad news.
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Sarah Palin bad news?? You Betcha!

[SayitAintSo]

1. Well surprise... she got the the nut-bag vote sewed up.... n/t