by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin's Going Rogue national book-signing tour may be good for more than book sales:
Public opinion of the Republican former governor of Alaska has risen in recent months, according to the findings of a new CNN/Opinion Research Poll released today.
Palin hasn't surfaced above 50 percent yet -- but she's getting closer: With 46 percent expressing a favorable opinion of Palin in the most recent, Dec. 2-3, survey.
That's up from 42 percent in mid-October, as the GOP's 2008 nominee for vice president was starting to attract new publicity surrounding her impending book release and tour, and 39 percent at the end of July, just after she surprisingly resigned midway through her term as governor.
However, the latest survey was conducted before word got around that Palin was adding her voice -- or maybe not adding it -- to the crowd questioning the credentials of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.
And, for the record, Palin's favorable rating is running about as strong as Vice President Joe Biden's -- "can I call you Joe?'' she asked him during their debate last year. His favorable rating in the latest CNN poll: 47 percent.
Palin told an audience of journalists at dinner in Washington over the weekend that things would be different today had her ticket won -- she would be bailing out banks and Biden would be peddling his memoirs, Going Rogaine.
(Abe Lincoln impersonator Lance V. Mack, pictured above, waited in line for an autograph from Sarah Palin during a book-signing at a Barnes and Noble in Sioux City, Iowa, on Sunday. Photo by Jim Lee / Sioux City Journal.)
Comments
Go SARAH !
Posted by: The Democratic Party 2012 | December 7, 2009 1:43 PM
Run Sarah Run!!!!
Posted by: bill r. | December 7, 2009 2:04 PM
Until someone posts Sarah Palin's high school diploma, questions about her level of education are legitimate.
Posted by: B Mobbie | December 7, 2009 2:15 PM
Go Sarah Go is right. Go and make a boatload of money exploiting uneducated xenophobic small minded bigots. Go and tell them what they want to hear. Go and throw red meat at them. They'll eat it up every time. They always do. And while you're at it, please run go and run for president in 2012. You are the best thing that could happen to the GOP since, Crazy Dick Cheney; a guaranteed win for Obama.
Posted by: gibster | December 7, 2009 2:18 PM
The stupidity of Palin's right wing "regular-folk-real American-Teabagger" supporters is hilarious.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk
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Posted by: ComeAsYouAre | December 7, 2009 2:34 PM
"she would be bailing out banks" What's this? Where you get this from? This certainly not from the Gridiron Dinner speech. You're lying
Posted by: 4rc | December 7, 2009 2:46 PM
You can destroy her.
Go Sarah :)
Posted by: O | December 7, 2009 3:02 PM
It's hard to take a person who, according to her own father, Chcuck Heath, quit the University of Hawaii after only 1 semester because, According to him, "the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: "They were a minority type thing and it wasn't glamorous, so she came home."
If Sarah cab only feel comfortable with her own kind, she should forget politics. Too many blacks and other minorities in the halls of Congress nowadays.
As president, where would she run and hide go?
So typical of the Lillie white Conservatives who only feel comfortable when minorities they associate with are gardeners and servants.
Posted by: norris hall | December 7, 2009 4:41 PM
["Until someone posts Sarah Palin's high school diploma, questions about her level of education are legitimate.']
Until the Bamster removes all the court orders he imposed on his scholastic records etc and produces his long form birth certificate. All questions remain legitimate about the poseur.
"John McCain cost Sarah Palin the election"
Posted by: Travis | December 7, 2009 4:56 PM