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Poll Shows Americans’ Dissatisfaction with Gov’t, Doubts About Palin

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Posted on Feb 11, 2010
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Do Americans really get what the tea party movement is about? Did Sarah Palin’s performance at last weekend’s inaugural Tea Party Convention in Nashville help or hurt her standing among her fans and would-be supporters? These may not be questions that keep us all up at night, especially in these hard times—but hey, that’s what pollsters are for.

Seems like the answers to both of our questions here would tend toward the negative, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. What’s more, the poll’s results suggest that over half of the country is quite displeased with the way the federal government is currently operating. Just bad news all around for Washington types of all stripes, in other words, but the former Alaska governor seemed to take a particular hit in terms of her public image. Note to Palin: Consider using a teleprompter, perhaps?  —KA

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The opening is clear: Public dissatisfaction with how Washington operates is at its highest level in Post-ABC polling in more than a decade—since the months after the Republican-led government shutdown in 1996—and negative ratings of the two major parties hover near record highs.

[...] Although Palin is a tea party favorite, her potential as a presidential hopeful takes a severe hit in the survey. Fifty-five percent of Americans have unfavorable views of her, while the percentage holding favorable views has dipped to 37, a new low in Post-ABC polling.

There is a growing sense that the former Alaska governor is not qualified to serve as president, with more than seven in 10 Americans now saying she is unqualified, up from 60 percent in a November survey. Even among Republicans, a majority now say Palin lacks the qualifications necessary for the White House.

Palin has lost ground among conservative Republicans, who would be crucial to her hopes if she seeks the party’s presidential nomination in 2012. Forty-five percent of conservatives now consider her as qualified for the presidency, down sharply from 66 percent who said so last fall.

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By MarthaA, February 13, 2010 at 3:00 pm Link to this comment

I think Part 4 of these 4 part interviews with Professor Jeff Cohen is the main, but all are pertinent to the political crisis for the populace in the United States:

Progressives and the Democratic Party - Part 1:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4775

Progressives and the Democratic Party - Part 2:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4783

Progressives and the Democratic Party - Part 3:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4786

Progressives and the Democratic Party - Part 4:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4787

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By ofersince72, February 11, 2010 at 11:22 pm Link to this comment

You know America is in trouble,

Truth Dig has at least four posts going on
Palin.

You like giving her this added legit?

And just why are you all so afraid of her?
Don’t tell me,,,
because corp pac money will then flow republican.

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By MarthaA, February 11, 2010 at 5:43 pm Link to this comment

I expect the “Republican heavy” Roberts Supreme Court will try to install Palin, who is doing the Right-Wing Republican fake liberal “Tea Party” dance for the populace as if in the United States Two-Party System, the Republicans all of a sudden represent the populace.  Everyone who isn’t a fool knows Republicans ONLY represent corporations and big money, but some are too lazy to think and want to follow and believe.  Wanting to believe got the United States the alcoholic Bush and in like manner, ignorant Palin will be foisted off on the nation to finish the nation off economically.  All people helping the jingoistic Tea Party Republicans are NOT patriots, but traitors, because the Republicans have already spent 8 years tearing the nation down along with 32 years of past Republican and conservative administrations destruction. 

I wish President Obama was pushing a legitimate Grassfire and ResistNet network, but instead it is the Hitleresque Republicans using the populace against their best interest since so many of the populace keep looking for a savior in all the wrong places.  Corporations and big money NEVER save the populace and corporations and big money is all the Republican Party plans to save, just not in this country, and if putting down the Obama administration will get them there, they will do it, as they aren’t patriots at all.

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By MarthaA, February 11, 2010 at 5:42 pm Link to this comment

I expect the “Republican heavy” Roberts Supreme Court will try to install Palin, who is doing the Right-Wing Republican fake liberal “Tea Party” dance for the populace as if in the United States Two-Party System, the Republicans all of a sudden represent the populace.  Everyone who isn’t a fool knows Republicans ONLY represent corporations and big money, but some are too lazy to think and want to follow and believe.  Wanting to believe got the United States the alcoholic Bush and in like manner, ignorant Palin will be foisted off on the nation to finish the nation off economically.  All people helping the jingoistic Tea Party Republicans are NOT patriots, but traitors, because the Republicans have already spent 8 years tearing the nation down along with 32 years of past Republican and conservative administrations destruction. 

I wish President Obama was pushing a legitimate Grassfire and ResistNet network, but instead it is the Hitleresque Republicans using the populace against their best interest since so many of the populace keep looking for a savior in all the wrong places.  Corporations and big money NEVER save the populace, and corporations and big money is all the Republican Party plans to save, just not in this country, and if putting down the Obama administration will get them there, they will do it, as they aren’t patriots at all.

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By liecatcher, February 11, 2010 at 5:03 pm Link to this comment

POLL SHOWS AMERICANS’ DISSATISFACTION WITH GOV’T,
DOUBTS ABOUT PALIN

Whether a peanut farmer from Georgia,a Hollywood actor,
or a member of the Bush Crime Family, whoever gets
installed in the W.H. must follow the fascist cabal’s
script or die. Sometimes it’s the V.P. that is the de
facto Pres.
The important thing to remember is that “IN AMERICA
DEMOCRACY IS A USEFUL FICTION”.

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By Bud, February 11, 2010 at 8:22 am Link to this comment
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Sarah Palin is a proudly ignorant,cynical opportunistic,pathological liar.Her and her husband would be a very dangerous combination if they occupied the whitehouse.

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