Palin At 53.5% Approval

America’s Sweetheart Once Again;

M. Joseph Sheppard’s Point of View

America’s Sweetheart once again. Sarah Palin’s approval rating continues on an seemingly inexorable rise as she reaches new heights for the year at 53.50% approval on the day when Reuters records Mitt Romney at 42% against President Obama. Palin is up a massive 16 points over the last twelve months.

AT THIS LINK and a net positive rating of +48, now a poll (Graphs at bottom of this page) at Election Meter.com has her approval also at a significant level.

The new 5,000+ vote EM Poll AT THIS LINK gives Palin a 53.50% approval rating. This is her fourth rating above 50% in this poll since early 2009 and shows the long struggle against media distortion she has had to undertake, so the slow and steady rise continues-here is Palin’s polling over the last year;

Undertake the long struggle she has done indeed, and her tenacity seems to finally be paying, off as voters now are seeing her in a substantially positive light again.

Further recent factors in Palin’s rise in popularity (Romney polled at a near disastrous 41% in the latest Fox News poll July 17th and Reuters at 42% in a just released poll could be:

Her six in a row winning endorsements for high profile campaigns e.g. Mourdoch and Fischer’s come from behind Senate primary wins, and Ted Cruz’s remarkable rise in Texas-all with Palin’s support. The perceived unfairness to Palin by the Romney team in hiring someone who has spoken negatively about to run his campaign, and of course their stonewalling Palin being invited to Tampa

Yes certainly, the Election Meter poll is an on line poll and can be discounted to a degree because of that. However, when Palin was at her absolute nadir in this poll in 2010 at 19.2% her enemies would have seized on it as being representative of a general feeling.

There is some degree of validity to that view, although it is distorted and extreme, but on the other hand the steady, seemingly inexorable rise since then must also reflect a wider reality-which will of course be ignored by her enemies.