Posted on 12/15/2010 12:01:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A huge majority of Washington's insiders say Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, isn't qualified to be president, a Politico poll indicates.
Eight-six percent of respondents considered members of the political establishment said they don't think Palin is qualified to hold the office, compared to 64 percent of the general public, results of the Politico poll released Wednesday said.
Eleven percent of political establishment respondents in Washington said they believe Palin is qualified to be president, compared to 23 percent of the general public, the survey indicated.
In addition, 79 percent of those classified as Washington elites said they think Palin is a "negative influence in national politics" while 15 percent said they thought she was "a breath of fresh air," Politico said.
"Palin is a populist-oriented phenomenon drawn heavily from lower middle-class voters, but she also deliberately comes off as anti-intellectual and anti-Washington, so it is no surprise she does not play in the Beltway," said Mark Penn, chief executive officer of the Penn Schoen Berland polling firm that conducted the survey. "Elites almost everywhere are turned off by her and some of the very things she does that attracts her core support."
The "Power and the People" poll is based on two Internet surveys conducted Dec. 3-8, Politico said. For the general population data, 1,000 people were surveyed nationwide with a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points. Also polled were 225 Washington elites and the margin of error is 6.53 percentage points.
No problem - she down on them.
Sarah is doing the happy dance about this news. Great news as far as I’m concerned!
>> A huge majority of Washington’s insiders say Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, isn’t qualified to be president
If Washington despises her, she’s doing something right.
I’d be worried if they liked her and supported her.
Mark Penn is a DC operative who was on Hillary’s team in ‘08.
hmmm...and what sold them on Obama??
Personally, I think this is the biggest single point in her favor!
“D.C. elites down on Palin”
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I can think of no better endorsement.
dah, when she says she will shake things up she really means it....many 'DC insiders' will really be out of there....
Shows how our entire society is manipulated by the media.
If you were to poll the general public with two questions:
1) Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to be President?
2) Do you think Barack Obama is qualified to be President?
the sad fact is most people would say that Palin (who has run a state government) isn’t, and Obama (who never ran jack **** before he was elected and whose major talent appears to be reading from a teleprompter) is.
And that’s completely aside from actual LEGAL qualification for the office.
It’s hard to see a bright future when the population of the United States is so easily manipulated.
Speaking of Romney...here’s a triple-bag barfer campaign bumper slogan from a paper in NH today...’Romney/Gregg 2012’...I don’t think I have ever seen that combo before...looking forward to that NH primary...
Can we eliminate the word “qualified” for the next Presidential race.
It is meaningless. I want a Pres. who is going to dismantle govt agencies. slash spending, push for scraping the current tax code, and restoring liberty.
I don’t need anything more than no evidence to the contrary
How can they say that she’s not qualified? We have Barry the Bolshevik, the singularly most unqualified person in history as POTUS now? And somehow Sarah Palin isn’t qualified?
We all know that the inhabitants of DC are democRATS so why should any of this matter.
Gee, she isn’t qualified. I wonder if any other presidents used the experience of being a state governor to become president? Yes, seventeen have, including 4 in recent years.
Well, if other presidents are qualified by being former state governors, why isn’t she? Could it be because she is a WOMAN ?????
Jefferson, Monroe, Tyler - Virginia
Van Buren, Cleveland, T Roosevelt, FD Roosevelt - NY
Polk, A Johnson - Tennessee
Hayes, McKinley - Ohio
Wilson - NJ
Coolidge - Mass
Carter - Georgia
Reagan - California
Clinton - Arkansas
GW Bush - Texas
In addition, two Territorial Governors later became President
Jackson - Florida
WH Harrison - Indiana
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_US_presidents_were_governors_first#ixzz18DG65vNU
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