{"id":6617,"date":"2009-11-23T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2009-11-23T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:57:34","slug":"going-un-framed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6617","title":{"rendered":"Going Un-Framed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Andrew Malcolm; Sarah Palin’s numbers\u00a0are rising as fast as The One’s are dropping<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Not that it matters politically because obviously she’s a female Republican dunce and he’s a male Democrat genius.<\/p>\n

But Sarah Palin’s poll numbers are strengthening.<\/p>\n

And Barack Obama’s are sliding.<\/p>\n

Guess what? They’re about to meet in the 40’s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A very wide variet of polls are showing Palin’s numbers are moving up:<\/p>\n

Riding the wave of immense publicity and symbiotic media interest over her new book, “Going Rogue,” and the accompanying promotional tour, Palin’s favorable ratings are now at 43%, according to ABC. That’s up from 40% in July.<\/p>\n

One poll even gives her a 47% favorable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this includes the big one…:<\/p>\n

Most recent media attention has focused on the 60% who say she’s unqualified to become president. Her unfavorable rating is 52%, down from 53%, which still doesn’t ignite a lot of optimism for Palin-lovers.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, 35 months before the 2008 election, that Illinois state senator was such a nobody that no one even thought to ask such a question about him. Things seem to change much more quickly these days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we have a candidate who was swept into office on a wave of uncritical – dare I say, “know-nothing” – media adulation, versus a candidate whom the media framed from the word “go”; every move the media made with regard to Palin was intended to show her as “dumb”, a “hick”, a scatterbrain, in way over her depth, who is having to earn approval one vote at a time.<\/p>\n

And she’s approaching those voters, one at a time and in big crowds as well…<\/p>\n

Everybody thinks 2012 when they think of Palin, who last week pushed Oprah’s show to….<\/p>\n

… its highest ratings in nearly three years. Remember, though, in 2012 the first hurdles a rehabbed candidate Palin would face are her own party’s primaries, where diligent conservatives conscientiously come out to play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and all of a sudden, leaving the Alaska governor’s office is making more and more sense.<\/p>\n

Indeed, something jumped out as me as I was writing this:<\/p>\n

That same ABC poll finds Palin’s GOP approval right around 76%, 45% among independents and a surprisingly substantial 21% among Democrats. Among self-described liberals she’s seen favorably by a slightly larger 22%, among moderates 38% and among conservatives 60%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This past year has seen an epic resurgence in bottom-up conservative – not necessarily Republican – sentiment around the country.\u00a0 You can tell it’s working, because it’s being met with top-down media condescenscion intended to, again, frame the discussion as one of “smart people” versus “teh dum ReThugLiCons” in the media’s mind’s eye.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The phenomenon is so organic and grass-roots that it doesn’t have <\/em>a leader yet; there is momentum, but nobody to ride it.<\/p>\n

Palin’s campaign<\/span> book tour might change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Andrew Malcolm; Sarah Palin’s numbers\u00a0are rising as fast as The One’s are dropping: Not that it matters politically because obviously she’s a female Republican dunce and he’s a male Democrat genius. But Sarah Palin’s poll numbers are strengthening. And Barack Obama’s are sliding. Guess what? They’re about to meet in the 40’s. A very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6626,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}