Good News and Bad in Sarah Palin's Polling Plunge

Let's start with the bad news: As Huffington Post reports, Sarah Palin's poll numbers have taken a nosedive. Her approval rating has gone from 85% to 54% in a little over a year. Shannyn Moore has more:

In March 2008, Sarah Palin's combined positives were 85%. Her combined negatives were 12%. In July of 2008, according to the same polls, if you walked into a bar with 100 people, 12 people didn't approve of the job Sarah Palin was doing. Good luck getting a drink.

Last September, Sarah went on tour...and stayed on tour-like an old Aqua Net 80's band that ought to stick to playing local bars and count their iTune downloads. Sarah Palin consistently ignored the needs of Alaskans. As a result of her job abandonment, her approval rating suffered. The new Hayes Research polls show the governor at 54% combined approval and 41.6% combined disapproval. 30% of her former fans now boo her. Love can be fickle.

The good news is, those are statewide numbers, the state being Alaska. Crummy numbers like these aren't likely to hurt Palin's chances at the 2012 Republican presidential nod one bit. In fact, they might even persuade Palin to skip the 2010 governor's race and fire up that presidential bid early.

That would be very bad news for the rest of the Republican field. The Class of 2008 had a notoriously hard time raising money. Palin's new whipping boy, Mitt Romney, was forced to raise much of it from himself.

If Palin hits the fundraising trail early, she could easily build an insurmountable money lead before any of these other guys can get out of the locker room.

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