Date Approval Disapproval Pollster
May 15, 2007[122] 93% Not reported Dittman Research
May 30, 2007[123] 89% Not reported Ivan Moore Research
October 19–21, 2007[124] 83% 11% Ivan Moore Research
April 10, 2008[125] 73% 7% Rasmussen Reports
May 17, 2008[126] 69% 9% Rasmussen Reports
July 24–25, 2008[127] 80% Not reported Hays Research Group
July 30, 2008[127] 64% 14% Rasmussen Reports
September 20–22, 2008[128] 68% Not reported Ivan Moore Research
October 7, 2008[129] 63% 37% Rasmussen Reports
March 24–25, 2009[130] 59.8% 34.9% Hays Research
May 4–5, 2009[130] 54% 41.6% Hays Research
June 14–18, 2009[131] 56% 35% Global Strategy Group

polls on sahah palin while governor of alaska... from wiki

A great deal of attention was paid to Palin's physical appearance during the 2008 elections. According to Vogue Magazine, "Besides being telegenic, [Palin] had a tough-girl Alaskan résumé that most politicians could only dream of—the protein her family eats comes from fish she has pulled out of the ocean with her own hands and caribou she has shot."[135] Others were quick to point out striking resemblances of Palin to actress Tina Fey, who would impersonate her on Saturday Night Live, and Peggy Hill, a character on Fox Network's animated series King of the Hill. Regarding her appearance, Palin has said, "I've been taken aback by the nasty criticism about my appearance. I wish they'd stick with the issues instead of discussing my black go-go boots. A reporter once asked me about it during the campaign, and I assured him I was trying to be as frumpy as I could by wearing my hair on top of my head and these schoolmarm glasses."[135]

According to the Los Angeles Times of October 23, 2008 "the news that the Republican National Committee has bought Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family nearly $150,000 worth of clothing since September has fueled charges of hypocrisy by her detractors and sparked questions about the legality of the expenditures [...] Election-law experts are split on whether the RNC's expenditure is allowable under federal laws, which prohibit the use of campaign funds for personal use."[136] Tracey Schmitt, Palin's traveling press secretary responded by saying "It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign."[137] "I am an Obama supporter, but when I heard that for $150,000, they dressed her, her children and her husband, I thought, 'that's not much,' " said Vicki Sanchez, a costume designer who dressed Geena Davis as the first female U.S. president on the short-lived TV show "Commander in Chief."[136] She continues on to say "When you start buying $3,000 suits, boots that cost anywhere from $800 and up, and designer shoes, which cost $500 at least, it goes fast,".[136]

A University of South Florida study by Nathan Heflick and Jamie Goldenberg, released in March 2009, found that support for Palin, and the McCain-Palin ticket by extension, was diminished when people focused on her appearance compared to her personality. The study found that when participants focused on her appearance, they gave her lower ratings for competence, intelligence and capability, which in turn, lowered people's likelihood of voting for the GOP ticket.[138][139][140][141]

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Bah, humbug. Not even 20 years ago, Fife Symmington was indicted, tried, and kicked out of office (and did a bit of jail time, too). The rest of the people in AZ went on as usual. People need to quit worshiping government figures.

Because he was elected President. That's a bit different than Palin's situation, I would think.

So all the venom from the public toward Palin is because she resigned? The attacks started before she resigned. And if she really did do it for the best for Alaska, then I applaud her for that (but only she knows 100% why she quit)

I'm just trying to figure out why all of this started to begin with. I didn't even know about her until she ran for VP so I don't know what she did in Alaska

A Poem for Sarah....


I’m a little Tea BIGOT!
Short on Clout!
Here is my Anger!
Here is my Pout!
When I get steamed up
Bile comes Out!
Disagree with me and
my Gun will come Out!


-author unknown

LOL

Obama didn't quit. He got a promotion.
If Palin quit because of the pressure she recieved how long would she last recieving the pressure Obama does.

She's a quitter and that's how the Sarah rolls.

For Palin, the months since Election Day had been a letdown even bigger than the loss to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Being governor was drudgery. “Her life was terrible,” one adviser says. “She was never home, her [Juneau] office was four hours from her house. You gotta drive an hour from Wasilla to Anchorage. And she was going broke.” Her sky-high approval ratings in Alaska—which had topped 80 percent before John McCain picked her—had withered to the low fifties. She faced a hostile legislature, a barrage of ethics complaints, and frothing local bloggers who reveled in her misfortune. All this for a salary of only $125,000? The worst was that she had racked up $500,000 in legal bills to fend off the trooper scandal and other investigations. She needed money and worried about it constantly. “You have to keep in mind,” Bill McAllister, her then–press secretary, told me, “she and Todd were middle class. They’re rich now, but not then.”

And, whatever one thinks of her intelligence, she was more than shrewd enough to see that there was money to be made on her newfound national profile, and she hadn’t been the one making it—this was her particular American resentment. The tabloid-media culture began cashing in on the Palin-family drama ever since her pregnant 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, and boyfriend Levi Johnston stepped on the Xcel Energy Center stage at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. On multiple occasions, Palin complained to campaign aides about Kaylene Johnson, an Alaska journalist, who had just published a book about her. “I can’t believe that woman is making so much money off my name,” Palin said.

From the time of her infamous wardrobe selection, money had been an issue in Palin’s politics. Her relationship with the McCain campaign had been plagued by financial misunderstanding. In her book Going Rogue, she claimed that the McCain campaign had left her on the hook for her Troopergate bills. Palin was furious. “Deep down, she wanted to make money,” a McCain adviser says. “There was always financial stress. They’re not wealthy people.”

Palin knew there were ways to solve her money problems, and then some. Planning quickly got under way for a book. And just weeks after the campaign ended, reality-show producer Mark Burnett called Palin personally and pitched her on starring in her own show. Then, in May 2009, she signed a $7 million book deal with HarperCollins. Two former Palin-campaign aides—Jason Recher and Doug McMarlin—were hired to plan a book tour with all the trappings of a national political campaign. But there was a hitch: With Alaska’s strict ethics rules, Palin worried that her day job would get in the way. In March, she petitioned the Alaska attorney general’s office, which responded with a lengthy list of conditions. “There was no way she could go on a book tour while being governor” is how one member of her Alaska staff put it.

Again...is that why so many hate her? The attacks happened before she quit.

This is what I'm trying to understand. What did she do so horrible that people continue (IMO) worse attacks than anyone else and target her kids?

finally you put something out that had some basis to it, instead of hate filled crap....good job

I doubt that's the only reason people don't like her. Have you ever heard some of the things she's said? If you have, I'm sure you can see why many at least roll their eyes when she speaks and don't take her seriously.

He quit.
How did he know he was going to get voted in?
Insider tell him?

He found out when he won. He then resigned. Not before!

Wasn't McCain a Senator also?
Isn't he still?

I'm telling you. Some people will pick at straws.

Oh Sarah has lots that go against her. She is the epitome of all that have held women back for all this time in our country. She is not the sharpest pencil in the box for sure.

And she brought hatemongering and fearmongering to another level during her campaigning.

Along with that she is a quitter that looked guilty when she did it.

The propaganda technique of Transference of quilt must have at least some substance to work here willing!

Sarah Palin quit the Alaskan governorship well AFTER the 2008 elections. The Wall St Journal (for those of you who are about to cry LIBERAL MSM wolf!) reported on her resignation as being effective on July 26, 2009.

Quoting her statement to the media:

"I am determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path." She added, "I also felt that to embrace the conventional 'Lame Duck' status in this particular climate would just be another dose of 'politics as usual.'"

William Kristol of The Weekly Standard and a staunch Palin supporter said this:

"If Palin wants to run in 2012, why not do exactly what she announced today? It's an enormous gamble -- but it could be a shrewd one."

...and that by resigning she was...


"freeing herself from the duties of the governorship. Now she can do her book, give speeches, travel the country and the world, campaign for others, meet people, get more educated on the issues -- and without being criticized for neglecting her duties in Alaska. I suppose she'll take a hit for leaving the governorship early -- but how much of one? She's probably accomplished most of what she was going to get done as governor, and is leaving a simpatico lieutenant governor in charge."


Draw your own conclusions, but do so with verifiable facts.


Then ask, if things had gone differently and McCain had won, wouldn't he ALSO have had to resign?


-Kerry O.

I wasnt even allowed to vote for Ron Paul. His name wasn't on the ballot.

Dont spread hate. You are acting like a child calling someone names on the playground. Do we need to call your mother?

Neither was Duncan Hunter or Tom Tancredo, the best two people in the race. The were the most conservative. They have the best stances on Immigration, Terrorism, The Economy, N. Korea, Iran and everything else.