Palin Polls Poorly at Home

As we approach the New Year, 2011 promises to be a very difficult one for Democrats, but one bright spot we have looking ahead to 2010 is the love that the Theocon and InsaniTEA wings of the Republican party still has for Sarah Palin.  Realistically, we can thank her that Republicans so not control the Senate as well, as the mainline Republican candidates who lost in the primary to Palin’s choices, Christine O’Dingbat and Obtuse Angle, would have won the Delaware and Nevada seats.  Voters on the whole disapprove of Palin, especially in her home state.

It’s a well known fact that Sarah Palin is the most unpopular major political figure in the country…one thing that may be less well known is that one of the states where voters have the dimmest view of her is her own home state of Alaska.

 

We’ve polled Palin’s favorability in ten states over the last couple months. In Alaska just 33% of voters have a favorable opinion of her to 58% with a negative one. The only place where fewer voters see her positively than her own home state is dark blue Massachusetts.

 

Democrats hate Palin in Alaska but they hate her everywhere so there’s nothing newsworthy about that. What makes her home state numbers unusually bad is that Republicans see her favorably by only a 60/30 margin. In most places she’s closer to 80% favorability within her own party. Also while independents don’t like her anywhere their level of animosity in Alaska is unusually large- 65% unfavorable to only 25% with a favorable opinion…

 

…Here are Palin’s state by state favorability numbers:

 

State	Favorability
Montana	44/50
Ohio	37/52
North Carolina	36/57
Florida	36/57
Virginia	35/58
Wisconsin	35/58
Minnesota	35/60
Michigan	34/60
Alaska	33/58
Massachusetts	27/68

Inserted from <Public Policy Polling>

Despite Palin’s overall unpopularity  her Republican support remains strong. and the Theocon and InsaniTEA wings are most active.  If she runs, it with throw the Republican Party into disarray, as the Neocon, Corporocon and Plutocon wings try to defeat her, promising political theater at it’s best and an opportunity to push for more progressive candidates from the left.