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Palin Post-Peak: Favorability Slides

By Jeralyn

We wrote days ago that Gov. Sarah Palin had peaked when polls began to show a noticeable decline in her favorability ratings.

PPP will have a new Colorado poll out this morning. They offer one stat as a teaser. Palin's favorability rating in the has dropped 3 points and her unfavorable rating has increased 9 points.

I'm 100% with Markos of Daily Kos on this:

Again, for those who counseled leaving Palin alone because she was too popular and because it took attention off McCain, had we done so, she'd be entrenched as a woman of the people, propping up the Republican ticket. Instead, she's been relegated to the far less glamorous (and helpful) task of keeping the GOP base intact, nothing more. She may be popular with the base, but people outside wingnut circles aren't impressed.

With Palin neutralized (and there's a reason they're hiding her from view), it's much easier to knock down McCain on the economy, his desire to deregulate healthcare just like Wall Street, his lies, and so on.

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I would just add it also makes McCain's poor judgment more evident. If he could be so careless and opportunistic in picking a Vice-Presidential candidate, why would we trust him with any important decision?

His Hail Mary pass will become more obvious in the coming weeks. Regardless of whether he ends up winning Colorado and its relatively few electoral votes, we have to make sure the message reaches Democrats and independents in Ohio, Florida and Michigan.

We don't need to convince Republicans, we just need to make sure everyone else knows not to sit this election out and take a chance on putting such an unqualified, unprepared politician with radical right views on issues in the second most important leadership position in the country. Nor is it acceptable to reward the man who thought he could pull such a fast one on us by choosing her.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).