Palin

The final Hays Research Poll on former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) finds her popularity with Alaskans tumbling just into negative territory; 48 percent of voters view her favorably, 47 percent view her unfavorably. It’s a strikingly polarized survey, with a similar one-point gap between the people who view her “very unfavorably” and “very favorably”—31-30.
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said goodbye to her constituents Sunday afternoon and handed off the baton to Lieutenant Gov. Sean Parnell. Explaining her puzzling move, Palin cited her inability to get anything done as a lame duck — though her term would have ended in about a year and a half.
After a few jabs [...]

Suddenly, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s abrupt resignation announcement might make a bit more sense.
An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by accepting private donations to pay her legal debts.
The report obtained by The Associated Press says Palin is securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts through the [...]

A new tweet from the governor of Alaska reveals her choice of reading material; the new, bestselling book from the legal-minded conservative radio host.

Jonathan Martin follows up on Ralph Z. Hallow’s story about Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) being willing to campaign for Democrats by … asking a bunch of Democrats if they’d want to campaign alongside Palin. “She’s deeply unpopular within their own party,” Martin says, understating the matter, “but in the socially conservative, often rural districts or [...]

Via Greg Sargent, the Rasmussen Reports poll on 2012 Republican candidates finds most Republican voters trusting Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) on national security and former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) on the economy. Another item from the poll: the possible candidates that have been getting a lot of friendly coverage are less popular than media punching [...]

She’d have to move to Anchorage, of course, but is it too soon to talk about State Sen. Sylvia Allen (R-Ariz.) as a possible governor of Alaska?

This, from Roger Simon, is the kind of political commentary that shoots for “outside the beltway” and just becomes patronizing. Mocking the media coverage of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska):
Listen to how “rambling” and “disjointed” she is. Once upon a time in American politics, this was known as being “plain-spoken,” but that time has gone.
OK. From [...]

A new Rasmussen Reports poll of Republicans finds a 40 percent plurality believing that Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) resignation “hurts her chances of winning the party’s presidential nomination in 2012,” with only 24 percent saying it helps her. It’s a sort of meta way to ask about this; these voters after all, will decide who [...]

Earlier today I talked to Jill Stanek, an anti-abortion rights activist who hounded Barack Obama over his vote against Illinois’s Born Alive Infant Protection Act, about the possibility of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stepping out as a pro-life advocate after she leaves the governor’s office.
“It would be exciting if Sarah Palin were to decide to [...]