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To: mainepatsfan
I’m willing to bet Carter would have smoked Reagan if a poll were taken during September 1977.

There's one huge difference between Reagan and Palin. Reagan stayed on as governor come hell or highwater. Sarah Palin QUIT without completing her term.
8 posted on 09/27/2009 5:36:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (wH)
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To: SeekAndFind

Regan was rich. SHE is not. She supposed to stay on till she was one million in the hole?


14 posted on 09/27/2009 5:41:21 AM PDT by securityman
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To: SeekAndFind
Yes and no. For polling purposes, Reagan was out of the limelight as a politician in the early 1970s and did a radio show every week. There's not much difference there. Moreover, I think any blowback from Palin "quitting" has long passed.

It's too early to tell if these kinds of numbers are "normal," or if they reflect her absence from the public eye for a month or two.

One thing we do know: Zero's numbers tend to dip when he IS in the public eye. I will grant you this, though: it's hard for someone to come back from sub-40 approval no matter what you do. It's possible---Nixon did it. But difficult.

18 posted on 09/27/2009 5:51:25 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: SeekAndFind

There are many more differences between Reagan and Palin, chief among them knowledge, not that I don’t like Sarah or that I think she is dumb. To give you an idea of how well Reagan handled television, take a look at some of the interviews he did from the 1960’s that are available on Youtube. He comes off quite well even back then.


23 posted on 09/27/2009 5:54:53 AM PDT by MSF BU (++)
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To: SeekAndFind

> Reagan stayed on as governor come hell or highwater.
> Sarah Palin QUIT without completing her term.

So, how many specious, fraudulent ethics violations lawsuits were lodged against Reagan when he was governor of California?

Palin faced more than one a month, sometimes two in one week, since she was nominated for VP.

She had to pay with her own money. The State of Alaska would not defend her.

The perpetrators of the fraudulent lawsuits got off scott-free, maybe a $50 filing fee paid for by Soros & co.

When the lawsuits were dismissed, the perps went right ahead and filed new ones.


65 posted on 09/27/2009 7:30:47 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Sarah Palin QUIT without completing her term.

Palin really didn't have a choice.
If goons paid off by Obama and Soros filed ethics charges against me non-stop, I'd quit too.
She just gave a major international speech and she played a major role in stopping cap and trade and Obamacare, so her quitting obviously didn't effect her.

107 posted on 09/27/2009 3:42:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (90% of the fedgov is unconstitutional. The other 10% besides the military doesnt know what it's doin)
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