posted July 13, 2010 11:03 AM            

This is exacerbated by the modern phenomenon of public polling and then treating the results as actual news. As any rational examination demonstrates, most polls are virtually meaningless and even if well conducted the average poll respondent is incapable of understanding or indifferent to what is really being asked. These are harsh judgments, but with a good deal of evidence. Voteers may lack the sagacity so often attributed to them by politicians seeking their votes. Any serious reading of the Federalist Papers or... the U.S. Constitution will reveal that far from having a faith in the abiding wisdom of the people our founding fathers considered them inflammatory dweebs, and tried to limit their influence in government. Were they correct??

posted July 13, 2010 03:46 PM              

sarah palin is cunning with a facile brightness that deceives...apparently a lot of religious right voters and men 20+ years her senior. as per usual the majority of the american public may prefer her to someone more thoughtful and careful not to jump from frying pan to fire, but that doesn't mean she is "intelligent" or has "common sense".

posted July 13, 2010 05:17 PM            

As it is...a Constitutional Republic, the majority cannot strip away the rights of the minority.

Aww, you're sore that Sarah Palin beats up on O'Bomber every time the little Marxist Socialist O'Bomber steps out of line...which is constantly. That sounds a lot like whining to me.

posted July 13, 2010 06:14 PM            

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It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.

It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder. This evil was not least to be dreaded in the election of a magistrate, who was to have so important an agency in the administration of the government as the President of the United States. But the precautions which have been so happily concerted in the system under consideration, promise an effectual security against this mischief. The choice of SEVERAL, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of ONE who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes. And as the electors, chosen in each State, are to assemble and vote in the State in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people, than if they were all to be convened at one time, in one place

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posted July 14, 2010 08:37 AM            

"It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any preestablished body, but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture."

posted July 14, 2010 01:20 PM              

i am not "sore" about sarah palin. just amazed at the fact that there are so many who think she has said anything of substance. i haven't noticed her whooping anyone's arse, in fact didn't she lose the election to obama? who is the sore loser?

posted July 14, 2010 07:03 PM            

The angry left is scared spitless of Sarah Palin...and they should be. It's the only particle of common sense I can attribute to the left these days.

posted July 14, 2010 07:13 PM            

JW your discernment has been well noted.

posted July 14, 2010 08:31 PM              

but sorry, jealous is not it. i wouldn't want to be in her position for anything. and i suspect in a few years she will agree with ME, not you. she's a sideline heckler not strong enough for the game itself. if anyone is jealous it is palin...who thought she was on her way to washington only to find she was a pretty appendage expected to act like barbie...and lost the race AND the thread.

she is a worldwide joke. what's to be jealous of?

posted July 14, 2010 09:15 PM            

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She does have nice legs cpn but that's not it. I like her mind.

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posted July 14, 2010 09:52 PM            

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Hahaha, you are jealous of Sarah Palin katatonic. You are also angry that she beats the crap out of O'Bomber every time he crosses the line...constantly.

The angry left is scared spitless of Sarah Palin...and they should be. It's the only particle of common sense I can attribute to the left these days.

She does have nice legs cpn but that's not it. I like her mind.

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There's nothing to be jealous of. Why would katatonic want to be someone who makes a fool of themselves every time they open their mouth? I am way more jealous of Hillary Clinton because she's been a senator AND Secretary of State and is 10x more intelligent than Sarah Palin (who was, what, the governor of the smallest state? who gives a crap).

posted July 15, 2010 12:56 PM            

"but jwhop, the LEFT are not the angry ones."...katatonic

So, to clear up your fog, here's an angry leftist, Chris Matthews commenting on..."the angry left". Matthews says O'Bomber's problems will come from the "Angry Left.

It's not reason, it's not logic, it's not rational thought which drives leftists. It's emotional hot button anger.

Btw, what Matthews said back in 2008 has come true. O'Bomber is taking angry fire from the "Angry Left" nuts.
http://www.netrootz.com/images/groups/group_30/Obamas_problems_will_come_from_angry_left.pdf

posted July 16, 2010 12:27 PM            

No, this is not coming from Rasmussen or an internal GOP poll, but from the normally Democrat-sympathetic Public Policy Polling. PPP pitted Barack Obama against five potential Republican challengers for the 2012 presidential campaign, and the only one Obama beat was … Jan Brewer. Even that, PPP admitted, resulted from Brewer’s lack of name recognition. The headline, though, is Sarah Palin’s dead heat with the President:

"With his approval numbers hitting new lows it’s no surprise that Barack Obama’s numbers in our monthly look ahead to the 2012 Presidential race are their worst ever this month. He trails Mitt Romney 46-43, Mike Huckabee 47-45, Newt Gingrich 46-45, and is even tied with Sarah Palin at 46. The only person tested he leads is Jan Brewer, who doesn’t have particularly high name recognition on the national level at this point.

It’s not that any of the Republican candidates are particularly well liked. Only Huckabee has positive favorability numbers at 37/28. Romney’s at 32/33, Gingrich at 32/42, Palin at 37/52, and Brewer at 17/20. But with a majority of Americans now disapproving of Obama it’s no surprise that a large chunk of them would replace him as President if they had that choice today.
There are two things driving these strong poll numbers for the Republican candidates. The first is a lead with independents in every match up. Romney leads 48-35 with them, Gingrich is up 50-39, Huckabee has a 46-40 advantage, Palin’s up 47-42, and even Brewer has a 38-37 edge."

In case one wonders whether PPP’s sample is to blame, the partisan split favors Democrats by five points, 39/34. That’s probably overstating the actual size of the gap and the percentage of Democrats in the general population, which means that the independents got short shrift as well. Also note that this poll surveyed registered voters, not likely voters — a sampling technique that would tend to favor Democrats and Obama a little more.
The news is almost uniformly bad for Obama in the poll. His approval rating is now seriously underwater at 45/52. That gets even worse among independents, 40/56. He doesn’t get above 46% in any matchup with Republicans, not even Jan Brewer, whom he beats 44/36, with 20% undecided.

For Palin, the numbers show she can play against Obama. She pulls 8% of those who voted for Obama in 2008 and 35% of those who “don’t remember” (?!?), which puts her on par for outreach with Gingrich (9%, 40%), Romney (9%, 32%), and slightly better than Huckabee (6%, 32%). If that’s not vindication for those who argued that Palin couldn’t do as well with unaffiliated voters, it’s cetainly something close to it.

posted July 16, 2010 01:04 PM              

but pray how does her tying with obama show HIS UNpopularity but HER popularity? no one has noticed that those in power are those who cop the BLAME for things being as they are? nor that whoever came to that conclusion is just a little biassed?

posted July 16, 2010 03:25 PM            

In a few more months of O'Bomber misrule he'll slide completely off the charts.

posted July 16, 2010 03:37 PM              

and since no one has had the opportunity to see sarah palin govern, any approval she has is down to conjecture. but again, polls are a waste of time and money unless they include a lot more people than most of them do.

posted July 16, 2010 04:53 PM            

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Hahaha, it shows Sarah Palin is just as acceptable to America as O'Bomber.

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posted July 16, 2010 05:03 PM            

Currently she has raised 3.3 Mil
She has spent 2.3 Mil
On herself
1+ Mil is left in the till
Contributions from this PAC to federal candidates???? a mere pittance farthing's worth
$52,000

edit: I forgot to mention that Milady has spent nearly the same amount
for copies of her own book to doners
$47,779 on her own book.

Every other PAC that you look at spends their money on getting members of the party elected. Eric Cantor has the largest, and has spent over a mil on the party.

What does Sarah spend her money on? Consultants, more fundraising to keep gas in the jet, and 4 star hotel stays.

Sarah Palin's jobs
1. Wasilla City Council Member from 1992 to 1996
2. The Wasilla Mayor from 1996 to 2002 and part time job, 5,000 ppl
3. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission's Ethics Supervisor from 2003 to 2004
4. Alaska Governor from December 4, 2006 to July 26, 2009 -770,000 ppl

Occupations from Wiki:
sportscaster
commercial fishing
speaker
political commentator
politician

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00458588

there is also a Draft Sarah Cmte which has $11,000