Among Republicans, Most Popular GOP Figure Is Palin, By A Mile
It’s really striking how much more popular Sarah Palin is among Republicans than just about any other GOP figure. She really rules the GOP!
Take a look at her latest numbers in the new Pew poll (click to enlarge):
Palin is just crushing other GOPers in popularity among Republicans, with 73%, leading runner-up Mitt Romney by 16 points. And that’s in spite of all Romney’s recent Mittmentum.
Palin is beating Newt Gingrich by even more, 18 points, even though Gingrich has emerged as a kind of intellectual forefather of the modern GOP. And she’s slaughtering poor Michael Steele by 45 points.
That standoff with David Letterman must have really worked among the rank and file. Other GOP leaders not named here, such as the Congressional leadership, aren’t even close. It says a lot about the state of the GOP that there isn’t another current Republican official who is anywhere near being in her league.
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Update: As commenter Farinata X notes, a lot of this could be driven by the appeal that Palin’s special politics of resentment and grievance has for the base. That was on display to the max during her Letterman standoff.
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Greg, did you see Bloomberg changed the story you linked to in the other thread?
And its hilarious that 58% didn’t even give a rats *** about Steele in the poll.
yeah, saw the Bloomberg change, SG — what do you make of it?
More than any other GOP figure, Palin exemplifies the politics of spiteful resentment that drives the base more than any policy inititive ever could. She’s a natural at that kind of stuff, largely because that appears to be her personality as well as her politics. Who says the personal isn’t political?
Of course to vote, you had to claim you’re a Republican, so it’s kind of like best in show at the rodent convention.
Danp, is that the cute hamster or the river rat rodent convention? I ask because cute hamsters certainly poll higher than repuglicans, while river rats . . . well maybe they poll higher as well.
Greg, I think they had to walk back their framing. Probably because somebody, (I would guess the WH and Bauchus) called and reamed them out about it. I am pretty sure there had to be some angry emails and phonecalls fired off behind that article and your blog post.
on it, SG, thanks. lemme see if I can get to bottom of it…
LOP-sided favorability. Lipstick on Pig.
Romney/Cheney (Liz) 2012!
Mitt Romney is an opportunist and a practitioner of class warfare that would make Ted Kennedy proud.
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/03/mitt_romney_is.php
What’s amazing about Palin’s politics of resentment is that so often, they don’t even make sense. Case in point: she branded David Letterman as elite. David Letterman? The David Letterman who grew up in a middle-class family in Indiana, went to Ball State University, started his career as a weatherman in Terre Haute and slowly worked his way up to the top? That David Letterman? Yeah, sounds pretty elitist to me.
Whatever you think of his comedy, Letterman is a guy who was got to where he is through talent, hard work and determination. Aren’t Republicans supposed to like that sort of thing?
Run, Sarah, run. As a progressive, it would fulfill my greatest wish.
Pakin in 2012 – we can only hope! LOL.
Maybe her handlers will allow her to go on “Meet the Press”?
Doubtful… it will just give “Saturday Night Live” a weeks worth of material.
Conservatives, please keep drinking the kool aid that Sarah is the answer to all your problems.
“Figures read across”! Ha ha ha ha ha ha, Republicans apparently have to be instructed on how to read a simple table.
” ‘Figures read across’! Ha ha ha ha ha ha, Republicans apparently have to be instructed on how to read a simple table.”
lylebot | June 26th, 2009 at 01:04 am
And you find this in any way surprising, or otherwise worthy of remark, because… ?