Not bad at all IMHO!
Posted on 05/30/2007 11:31:59 AM PDT by Princip. Conservative
JUNEAU -- With the latest poll showing her approval rating at 89 percent, Gov. Sarah Palin may now be the most popular governor in the nation.
A recent public opinion poll taken by Ivan Moore Research showed both Republicans and Democrats in favor of the state's first female governor. The poll comes just two weeks after a separate poll taken by Dittman Research gave Palin a 93 percent approval rating.
While political polling numbers can fluctuate week to week, Palin's numbers have consistently been extremely high, putting her near or at the top among the nation's governors, according to Jennifer Duffy, an analyst at the Cook Political Report, a Washington, D.C.-based research group that closely follows state politics.
"She is only the 14th person in the nation to take out an incumbent governor in a primary. That's about the hardest thing you can do in politics, so she was starting from a good point," Duffy said.
Palin beat then-Gov. Frank Murkowski in last August's Republican primary before winning the general election in November.
"In a lot of ways that was the race, so she started in a good position," Duffy said.
The Ivan Moore poll surveyed 500 people throughout the state on the governor's performance as well as her Alaska Gasline Inducement Act. Fifty percent of those asked said they thought Palin's gas line law would increase the chances of a North Slope pipeline getting built to transport natural gas to the Lower 48. Twenty-one percent of respondents said the gas line law was flawed.
Only 5 percent of those asked said they thought negatively about Palin's work in her six months as governor.
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Any comments, Alaskans?
Being kinda cute doesn’t hurt matters...
its a shame the folks of kentucky couldnt have done the same in the primary to fletcher.
I voted for her. I’ve liked her ever since I was a caucus member of the Republican party and she spoke at the convention about 7 years ago. She’s quick, articulate, on point, self-confident and doesn’t get pushed around by the good-ole-boy powerhouses. She will get some things done.
Not bad at all IMHO!
One of the cool things about Alaska is that we all know each other. Alaska is a very big very small town. I knew Sarah when she was in Wasilla working as a mayor and I was at a local newspaper. Later, when I returned to college for a year to get my teaching certificate, I delivered pizzas to her house. She’s a great tipper.
Sarah Palin is also, by far, one of the most beautiful women you’ll ever meet. (She had to actually “ugly” herself during the election.) She’s also intellectually sharp, morally centered, and tough without being nasty. She’s proving that right now, since our legislature (a real citizen legislature, by the way, not a bunch of lawyers) can be quite ornery. She’s also going up against the oil companies, who basically owned the previous governor, and doing it in a smart and pro-Alaskan manner.
The last time we had a small town mayor as governor his name was Jay Hammond, and he came up with the idea of the permanent fund, the fund which takes oil revenue and uses it as an investment portfolio for the future, including a check for all of us who put up with cold and mosquitoes. The permanent fund is now worth billions. Imagine if Pennsylvania, Texas, or California had done the same with their oil revenue. I expect Sarah Palin to leave that kind of imprint on the future of our state.
By the way - anyone up here who is really popular with everyone is really, really rare. Sniping about politicians and government is the only sport we have in the winter. The fact that she’s so popular says something about her.
Texas, at least, invested a large portion of their oil windfall in the "Permanent Fund" which is used to endow the University of Texas and Texas A&M University. It helped build two academic powerhouse institutions, keep tuition low enough for tens of thousands to attend who might not otherwise have had the means, and turn out several hundred thousand excellent graduates in engineering, business, science, mathematics, medicine, law, agriculture, military science and many other disciplines.
In my opinion, it is far wiser to invest in persons who can build, maintain, grow and defend the stock market than the stock market per se.
AK is one state with smart Republicans.
In 2006, AK had a Republican Governor with lower approvals than Fletcher. GOP voters wisely bounced the incumbent Governor out for a conservative women.
But, but, Palin is a “right wing extremist” and Knowles is a “sensible centrist”. Only sensible centrists can win in AK according to the Beltway. Oh never mind.
She hasn’t done anything yet. So far so good.
What’s the story with the cropped “topless” picture? She was obviously much younger.
Pennsylvania is 46th in the nation in per capita job creation and has a governor working hard to make us 50th.
Our taxes are high, our state universities so pricey that I have to send my kids out of state, but we do have one of the best-paid legislatures in the nation.
I’d like to see this gov get some national exposure so we could see if she is presidential timber.
We can have the first Mormon in 2008 and the first woman in 2016.
Trailblazers! LOL.
That would be the best looking ticket of all time.
I wonder how Ugly-Americans would respond to such a ticket....
DON'T BLAME ME!
Apparently, she posed in the buff as a college student. The article didn't mention where her original snaps are posted. Of course, the mean old Admin Moderator would probably never let us put them on display here, so until extremely some nice person locates a copy and sends us all the link on private Freep-Mail, we'll just have to wonder.
Not bad.
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