Palin's Favorability Numbers Eroding

[RamboLiberal]

As voters have taken a second look at Sarah Palin in venues like the Charlie Gibson interview and even Tina Fey's SNL sketch, they may not be as enamored of what they're seeing.

The Research 2000 poll for Daily Kos now has Palin's favorability-unfavorability scores at 45-44 -- just a +1. Six days ago, when the poll, launched, she was at a 52-35, a +17.

And I know that some of you don't like or don't trust this poll -- for reasons that I think are a little silly -- but there is a similar decline in her numbers in the Diageo/Hotline poll. Her favorability numbers in yesterday's Hotline poll -- today's isn't out yet -- were a 48-36, or a +12. But a week ago, on September 8, she had been at a 48-24, a +24.

Whether this ultimately has any effect on the Presidential race remains to be seen; Obama's position has improved in the national trackers, but not so much in the state polls. But it seems possible to me that John McCain's recent bounce has had more to do with John McCain -- whose speech at the convention was as underrated as Palin's was overrated -- and less to do with Palin than is generally given credit for. And if people are voting based on the bottom of the ticket, it seems furthermore that she may yet wind up being a net liability for him.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

[Virginia Dare]

1. She's already become a parody of herself,

the wolf ad really hurt her. She just doesn't pass the sniff test.

[Douglas Carpenter]

2. God I hope so

[bushisanidiot]

3. I think she will continue to be skewered on late night tv and SNL

and the corporate media will HAVE to start asking her questions.. even if they are doing it to try to help her defend herself, they can't get away with only talking to her surrogates and not to her.

all the major networks had Joe Biden on this morning and CNN in particular tried their hardest to smack him down, but he came back swinging with a big 'ole smile on his face like the champion he is and gave excellent, well thought out answers to very probing questions.

Palin should confront the press face to face in LIVE interviews, just like Joe Biden or she shouldn't be on the fucking ticket!!

[Nipper1959]

4. As I was saying a week ago

She will become an albatross around McCain's neck. In fact they are two of the wordst candidates for national office ever. He can't remember shit, and she neveer knew it.

[scheming daemons]

5. In a little more than a week, she's become a national joke