I keep seeing Palin supporters making this feeble claim. The reason most candidates get a bump when they enter the race is because they are not well-known, so they pick up a lot of people who are taking a look at them for the first time. Palin has almost 100% name recognition, and she has been campaigning almost non-stop for three years, if you include her TV shows, Tea Party events, bus tours, Fox News gig, etc. Almost everyone knows her and almost everyone has an opinion - for almost 2/3 of them, that opinion is negative. So she is not going to suddenly get a bump in the polls because she jumps in. To do that, she is going to have to start changing people's minds about her.
You are right but she is not running so the point is moot. She is playing with everybody until she can turn the circus into another pay day.
[”To do that, she is going to have to start changing people’s minds about her.”]
That may be the case, but since she decided to take so long to decide, (oxymoron) she no longer has the luxury of time on her side to do that. Her high name recognition and low image ratings will take much more time to reverse than she has.
I think some of her loss of support is from people getting tired of her waiting game.
She lost me simply because I think Perry can beat Obama, and Palin can’t right now. I think she’ll get some of her people back(but probably not all of them) if she enters the race.
“To do that, she is going to have to start changing people’s minds about her.”
I believe Reagan had the interest in persuading his former opponent about his conservative beliefs and positions.
So when the Reagan democrats appeared, it wasn’t an accident.
He is the only candidate in my memory who took that approach. And it worked, twice.
He knew he needed a few dems, and quite a few from the middle, independents.
He was a uniter, not a divider.
I keep seeing Palin supporters making this feeble claim. The reason most candidates get a bump when they enter the race is because they are not well-known, so they pick up a lot of people who are taking a look at them for the first time. Palin has almost 100% name recognition, and she has been campaigning almost non-stop for three years, if you include her TV shows, Tea Party events, bus tours, Fox News gig, etc. Almost everyone knows her and almost everyone has an opinion - for almost 2/3 of them, that opinion is negative. So she is not going to suddenly get a bump in the polls because she jumps in. To do that, she is going to have to start changing people's minds about her.And I'll tell you, I'm trying real hard to not let the Palin supporters here in FR color my opinion of Palin but, man, it's hard. They are SOOOO much like the Ron Paul supporters. Not all of them. But the ones who feel duty-bound to chase around every Perry thread. Even the Ron Paul supporters don't do that. They post stupid stuff on Ron Paul threads. But the fanatics who THINK they are doing Palin a favor (they most decidedly are not) by busting into every Perry thread and taking a crap on the floor (WORSE than Ron Paul supporters, now that I think of it) are only making their own case look weak.
My question to THOSE Palin supporters (and I know they are a minority but they are a very very vocal minority):
If you have such a great candidate why do you have to go around so PERSISTENTLY acting like an A-HOLE????