Posted on 10/27/2009 12:34:47 PM PDT by jeltz25
PRINCETON, NJ -- After peaking at 59% last November, Vice President Joe Biden's favorable rating continues to decline and now stands at 42%. That barely exceeds his 40% unfavorable rating, and is easily his worst evaluation since last year's Democratic National Convention.
Independents' opinions of Biden have declined more steadily since the post-election high mark, and now 32% of independents view the vice president favorably.
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
Well, Gallup just has a poll out that shows overall that Biden and Palin are basically equal in popularity. Biden is at 42% favorable and Palin is at 40%.
More interestingly, among independents, Palin is almost 30% MORE popular than Biden at 41% compared ot only 32% favorable for Biden.
And that is after Palin has been the subject of a year long assault by the entire media, resigned, and everything else associated with her. Meanwhile Biden has been part of the 2nd coming and gotten nothing but positive press. His #s among Is have declined from 55 after the election to 32 now, a drop of nearly 50%. Maybe he's been listening to Tom Petty's "FreeFallin" on his IPOD.
I wonder if wew'll start seeing stories about how polarizing and toxic Biden is.
I’d love for Palin to be POTUS and just kick some butt worldwide.
Biden is the epitome of a “buffoon”. He has to rank among the worst VP’s ever.
It took twenty years out of office for Walter Mondale to get as forgotten as Biden is while still serving.
LOL
There was an earlier thread with an article that said Algore had high % than Biden at this time...
Biden has to be bad if he’s underneath Algore...
Algore with a nose bleed at a height of popularity that beats Biden ???
Who nu ???
:)
How interesting that this news comes out just as Time of one of those rags has an cover story on JB saying he is a very influential and respected VP. Ha ha.
It’s obvious obama will have to give the VP spot to hillary next election— probably a contingent plan from way back.
Biden isn’t worthy to lick the ground where Sarah’s high heals have stepped.
Why is this such a key question? The two will never run against each other and the election is three years away. Dick Cheaney was worse in the polls than John Edwards was but that didn’t mean either was in great shape for a general.
I’ll say with 100% certainty that Joe could never win. The jury is still out on Palin though. She will fire up a large segment of the base but friendly fire and liberal attacks hurt her a lot. She’ll still have to win over the moderates, the country club set, enough RINOs, and some Reagan dems to win unless the country is an absolute disaster by then. She’ll also have to first win a primary which isn’t as easy as many caught in the echo chamber seem to think.
I wonder how his numbers stake up against Al Gore’s,another Enstein VP?
Gee, Slow Joe’s smart alec remarks aren’t endearing him to independents? Maybe he’d do better if he copied off Barry’s paper.
What makes me mad is, they’re finally realizing what we saw before the election.
this isn’t saying much.
i believe mold is more popular then biden
Well, I posted it because the media keeps running all these stories and talking about how Sarah tunrs off independents and is polarizing. Now it will be interesting to see if they report that Biden turns off more independents and is more polarizing. I doubt it.
I also doubt that it’s reallly a reflection on Biden personally. It’s more a reflection that unemployment has jumped by 30% and more than 4 million have lost their job. Just as the deline in her popularity during thye campaign wasn’t about her as much as it was that the market lost 30% and unemployment surged. Obama has also lost popularity among independents at a similar rate to Biden, but he started out higher so he looks better.
It shows that all this talk about her losing independents is just that. Independents will vote based on the economy. If it stinks in 2012 like it did last yr, they’ll vote for her or any other Republican just like they voted for Obama or any other democrat last year.
Personally, I would feel VERY comfortable casting my vote for Sarah for president.
Now, *THAT* is going to leave a mark!!
the infowarrior
Maybe her increasing popularity among independents ia a result of more and more Republicans (like myself) switching over to Independent. Just speculating...
The attacks have not hurt Sarah, only in the eyes of the wishful thinkers
I’d prefer she kicked butt right there in DC, like she did in the Alaska government.
Kick out all the entrenched bureaucracy, graft, corruption, and elitism.
“Kick out all the entrenched bureaucracy, graft, corruption, and elitism.” (In DC)
OK with me.
Palin v. H1N1 flu
Palin v. socialized medicine
Palin v. Obama (once people realize that we're as close as we'll ever be to facing the anti-Christ, other than the real thing that is)
Assuming Obama staves off impeachment.
The chance of BHO getting impeached by a Reid and Pelosi led congress is zero. The chance that enough RINOs and Dems would join in in the event of a Republican victory in 2010 to take him out is only a bit above zero.
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