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Poll: Palin More Popular Than Pelosi Among Voters


Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:28 PM

By: Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is more popular than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to a new bipartisan poll released Wednesday.

The Battleground Poll conducted for George Washington University found 42 percent of likely voters have a favorable opinion of Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee who stepped down last week as governor of Alaska. The survey found 47 percent had an unfavorable opinion of Palin.

While Palin trailed both President Barack Obama (61 favorable/36 unfavorable) and Vice President Joe Biden (48/38) she easily outpolled Pelosi, the highest ranking elected woman in the country.

The survey found 32 percent of likely voters had a favorable impression of Pelosi, a Democrat from San Francisco, and 51 percent had an unfavorable impression.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., trailed them all in personal popularity, with 15 percent holding a favorable impression and 31 percent having an unfavorable impression.
© 2009 McClatchy-Tribune News Service.

Palin and Pelosi are both women, that is where the comparison between them
stops, they are not after the same prize.
 

SirJosephPorter

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Palin and Pelosi are both women, that is where the comparison between them
stops, they are not after the same prize.

Indeed. Pelosi couldn’t care less how unpopular she is in the country, she is not running for a nationwide office, or is not interested in a Supreme Court assignment. As long as she keeps her constituents and the House Democrats happy, she is doing her job.
 

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Poll: Palin More Popular Than Pelosi Among Voters


Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:28 PM

By: Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is more popular than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to a new bipartisan poll released Wednesday.

The Battleground Poll conducted for George Washington University found 42 percent of likely voters have a favorable opinion of Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee who stepped down last week as governor of Alaska. The survey found 47 percent had an unfavorable opinion of Palin.

While Palin trailed both President Barack Obama (61 favorable/36 unfavorable) and Vice President Joe Biden (48/38) she easily outpolled Pelosi, the highest ranking elected woman in the country.

The survey found 32 percent of likely voters had a favorable impression of Pelosi, a Democrat from San Francisco, and 51 percent had an unfavorable impression.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., trailed them all in personal popularity, with 15 percent holding a favorable impression and 31 percent having an unfavorable impression.
© 2009 McClatchy-Tribune News Service.

That's no surprise; good looking, but fairly stupid, women are always popular.
 

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Not moonbats on the left, EagelSmack, it is the moonbats of the right who destroyed her. There was no way moonbats from the left could destroy her, their criticism was expected and I am sure everybody took their criticism with a huge pinch of salt.

What a bizzare view you have on American politics. That is why you are not really taken serious.

What was not expected was the childlike faith displayed by her followers. In their eyes she could do no wrong.

Again your childlike adoration of Obama leaves your quote here with little water.

Even after the horrible interviews with Couric (which really sealed her faith), moonbats on the right blamed Couric for the nutty answers given by Palin.


Which again proves my point of the attack of the liberal media on Palin while giggling like school children over Obama. They still giggle to this day around him.


Nobody blamed her for being a novice, a rank amateur when she was picked. In fact, there was plenty of goodwill towards her, moonbats on the right used to describe her (with some justification) as the most popular female politician in USA.

Another quote by you that shows you have very little knowledge of US Politics. The term moonbat was given to describe leftist and liberals...not people on the right. You are calling a club a spade here.

It reminds me of the time Aerosmith donated a bunch of money to support an art project that the Govt. refused to fund. Steve Tyler blamed "Right Wing Liberals" in the US for stopping the funding. We all know liberals hate being called liberal here in the US.
 

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Another quote by you that shows you have very little knowledge of US Politics. The term moonbat was given to describe leftist and liberals...not people on the right. You are calling a club a spade here.

It reminds me of the time Aerosmith donated a bunch of money to support an art project that the Govt. refused to fund. Steve Tyler blamed "Right Wing Liberals" in the US for stopping the funding. We all know liberals hate being called liberal here in the US.

Yup! Right wing nuts is the proper expression to use here. Even the left wing in the US is so far right of Canadian center that they make our conservatives look socialist. Very difficult to pigeon hole anybody when terminology is so skewed.
 

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Ironsides, that is a nonsense comparison, you are comparing apples with oranges. Pelosi is not running for a national office, her popularity is meaningless. As long as she is popular in her constituency and Democrats have a majority in the House, she will remain the Speaker, no matter how unpopular she is.

Do you remember how unpopular Gingrich was? That did not stop him from remaining as the Speaker. He resigned only after his having sex with his intern (the same crime for which he condemned Clinton in a mealy mouthed manner) was exposed.

So Pelosi’s popularity is meaningless. Palin’s popularity would also be meaningless, if she did not run for national office. But since she apparently is going to, her popularity is important, Pelosi’s popularity is not.

The comparison is nonsense. If Pelosi had any national ambitions, her popularity will be relevant, but there is no indication of that.


Yes, guess I am comparing the two. It shows that Palin is more popular than the highest elected women official in goverment. A women for the Left to fear, and looks like they do, considering all the talk going on about her.
 

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Yup! Right wing nuts is the proper expression to use here. Even the left wing in the US is so far right of Canadian center that they make our conservatives look socialist. Very difficult to pigeon hole anybody when terminology is so skewed.

I keep hearing that but I really don't see to much difference to be honest. There are millions of birkenstock wearing US liberals that would give any Canadian Moonbat a run for their money. Take a trip to Berkley Ca or Cambridge Ma and you would find out soon enough.

You are more alike than you think whether you'll admit to it or not is another story.
 
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The term moonbat was given to describe leftist and liberals...not people on the right. You are calling a club a spade here.

Sez you, EagleSmack. There is nothing wrong in using it to describe the wingnuts, extremists on the right. It may have been developed as an insult to the left, I don’t know. But it can equally well be used for the right. There are as many moonbats on the right as there are on the left.

Steve Tyler blamed "Right Wing Liberals" in the US for stopping the funding.

And just what is wrong with the term ‘right wing liberals’? To me, all the so called liberals in USA are right wing liberals.
 
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Yes, guess I am comparing the two. It shows that Palin is more popular than the highest elected women official in goverment. A women for the Left to fear, and looks like they do, considering all the talk going on about her.

You can compare anything you want, ironsides. But it is a nonsense comparison, it is like comparing apples with shoes, there is no connection whatever between the two.

And Pelosi is not the highest elected official in government. It is not my place to give you a lesson in American civics, but the highest elected official in government is president Obama (unless you agree with right wing moonbats that he was not really elected, he won because of massive fraud by ACORN). She is not even part of the government, the government is Obama and his cabinet.

She is not the highest, not the government and she also was not elected by the people. She was elected to her seat by the constituency in California, to the office of the Speaker by the Democrats in the House. To call her highest elected official in government is a bizarre way of putting it. Did you read it on some far right website? They are the ones capable of spouting such nonsense.
 

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You can compare anything you want, ironsides. But it is a nonsense comparison, it is like comparing apples with shoes, there is no connection whatever between the two.

And Pelosi is not the highest elected official in government. It is not my place to give you a lesson in American civics, but the highest elected official in government is president Obama (unless you agree with right wing moonbats that he was not really elected, he won because of massive fraud by ACORN). She is not even part of the government, the government is Obama and his cabinet.

She is not the highest, not the government and she also was not elected by the people. She was elected to her seat by the constituency in California, to the office of the Speaker by the Democrats in the House. To call her highest elected official in government is a bizarre way of putting it. Did you read it on some far right website? They are the ones capable of spouting such nonsense.


You seem to have a reading problem "highest elected women official in goverment" emphasis on women. She was elected by the people and appointed by her colleagues.

 

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The term moonbat was given to describe leftist and liberals...not people on the right. You are calling a club a spade here.

Sez you, EagleSmack. There is nothing wrong in using it to describe the wingnuts, extremists on the right. It may have been developed as an insult to the left, I don’t know. But it can equally well be used for the right. There are as many moonbats on the right as there are on the left.

That is the definition and you don't like it. So typical in your style you just say what is fact is just an opinion. A Moonbat is a left wing liberal and that is pretty much that. No matter how long you drone on and reply...you will be wrong.

You make me laugh sometimes. For one who claims to know a lot you really know very little.

Steve Tyler blamed "Right Wing Liberals" in the US for stopping the funding.
And just what is wrong with the term ‘right wing liberals’? To me, all the so called liberals in USA are right wing liberals.

Ok. :lol:
 

SirJosephPorter

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You seem to have a reading problem "highest elected women official in goverment" emphasis on women. She was elected by the people and appointed by her colleagues.


Once again, she is not part of the government (that is Obama and his cabinet) and she was not elected by American people (only by a vary small number of people, in California). Again, that is the kind of nonsense that extreme right wing websites would publish (probably that is where you read it).

Tell me something. When Clinton was the President, and Gingrich was the Speaker of the House, was Gingrich part of the government?
 

SirJosephPorter

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That is the definition and you don't like it. So typical in your style you just say what is fact is just an opinion. A Moonbat is a left wing liberal and that is pretty much that. No matter how long you drone on and reply...you will be wrong.

Again, definition doesn’t matter. It may have been devised for left wing, but there is nothing in the word that makes it unusable to the right wing.

You make me laugh sometimes.

Oh? Glad to be of service.
 

EagleSmack

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That is the definition and you don't like it. So typical in your style you just say what is fact is just an opinion. A Moonbat is a left wing liberal and that is pretty much that. No matter how long you drone on and reply...you will be wrong.

Again, definition doesn’t matter. It may have been devised for left wing, but there is nothing in the word that makes it unusable to the right wing.

Of course...definitions and facts mean very little to moonbats.

Is your name Joseph?

You make me laugh sometimes.
Oh? Glad to be of service.

As you should be.