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I already said I don't count mayor of a small town as major elective office just like I don't count Illinois state senator as major elective office. But if you want to count total time in office Obama has been in office continuously since 1997. Palin has been on and off although she pre-dated him in entry. Who cares? No one is counting back that far and for offices that minor. What counts is that Obama is now the president. If the public perceives in 2012 that he has done even an "ok" job in office (read: 45-50% approval) that's going to count for quite a bit. But what hurts Sarah Palin is that she has only 2-1/2 years of executive experience and then she suddenly (read mediaspeak: erratically) resigned. She won't have any more than that. So at the very least the argument that she has more executive experience won't work in 2012. Unless 2012 shapes up to be a tidal year she will find it very difficult to unseat him even if he's in the 42-47% approval range. And probably impossible if he's above that.

“Unless 2012 shapes up to be a tidal year she will find it very difficult to unseat him even if he’s in the 42-47% approval range. And probably impossible if he’s above that.”

LOL. You remind me of the BushSr. people saying Reagan’s negatives were too high to beat Bush and of course the Democrats crowing Dukakis.

In other words, these polls don’t mean jack at this point.

Personally I like the McDonnell/Palin scenario...8 years as VP ought to take care of “executive experience”, and “erratically resigned”,,,let Sarah post her W-2s as governor, and what she will make in the next few years....me, I’ll take the occupation of “quitter” any day, if I could match her numbers.....you can have her governor’s salary...