Having said that, I have no doubt Palin will close this gap and probably surpass The One as people get to know her better.
So funny because Palin’s not running for President, McCain is.
“taken before Palin’s historic speech Wednesday night”
the follow on results will be very interesting ...
“Community Organizer” vs. Mayor / Governor.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) also believe the GOP vice presidential nominee has better experience to be president of the United States than Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
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Not a bad statistic, given how long she has been on the election scene, but still shows a core of stupidity, ignorance and lack of Americanism. This core would vote for Joseph Stalin if he were the DemoRAT candidate....
If these numbers are an accurate reflection of the electorate's mood, then the media's repeated attempted smear jobs of Gov. Palin have failed miserably. Less than one in five voters is less likely to vote for her, despite their best efforts.
And those very same 49% couldn't provide even ONE reason why they say that. Idiots.
These respondents are to report to Re-Education Camp immediately!
I tell you, if this was taken BEFORE, the speech, then this guy (NOBAMA) is TOAST!!!
After the events of the past week, I will find no maximum threshold of satisfaction to see the otherside utterly pulverized and destroyed at the voting booth!
Yes, the poll was taken before Sarah’s speech. There will be a lag between the speech and any impact on poling results. I say give it a full week to digest. We will then get the speech, and then we’ll see how America deals with the backlash from the msm.
However, McCain’s campaign, very well run so far, has it’s work cut out. The focus needs to be:
1. McCain is running against Obama, not Palin
2. McCain/Palin has far more experience and character than Obama/Biden.
3. McCain/Palin offers real change from insider politics, not Obama/Biden.
It’s the change issue that I think trumps the experience issue. McCain’s campaign is, as I said, being run brilliantly. Much as I admire Krauthammer, I think he misses the boat when he says McCain forfeited the experience issue with Palin, and Charles thought experience was the winning issue. I disagree. Hillary Clinton thought the experience issue was the winner, too. She lost. The American people believe our do-nothing government is broken. They want someone to tell them they will fix it. This campaign will be decided by the ticket that offers the most credible promise of that.
With McCain/Palin, you get experience AND change. Packaged properly, as in the wonderful presentation Palin makes, Obama is trumped on all fronts.
This is going to be very interesting.
Experience numbers are not surprising since the liberal MSM initiated an all out assault on Gov. Palin’s experience, but gave (and continue to give) Obama a pass. If the liberal MSM would scrutinize and question Obama’s experience even half as much as they did Palin’s, you would see the experience numbers flip flop.
Last night’s polling shows that, by a ten-to-one margin, voters believe reporters are trying to hurt Palin’s campaign rather than help. Republicans and unaffiliated voters strongly believe that a double standard is being applied to Palin because she is a woman. Democrats disagree. Perhaps most stunning is that, among unaffiliated voters, just 42% believe Obama has better experience than Palin to be President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) say Palin has the edge on experience. Again, most of the interviews for this survey were completed before Palin’s well-received speech last night.So is it 42%, or 49%? And is it "10 to 1", or "51%"?
The problem with one part of the poll is that Obama is running for President, Palin for V.P., yet they are continually pairing her and Obama’s experience against each other in these polls. On Fox News last night, Susan Estrich said Palin’s speech was focused too much on Obama, and the Republicans were pitting her experience against his and not Biden’s. Yet in reality, the Democrats and the press have been waging a battle of experience between Obama and Palin since the day she was named as McCain’s running mate. Of course Estrich would say anything to diminish Palin’s speech and her effectiveness to go for the jugular. I think the Dems are very scared, and that is the reason they keep comparing Obama’s credentials against Palin’s. They can’t effectively diminish McCain’s experience by praising Barry’s, so they have to go after Palin’s.