From Hot Air:
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:
…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…
As Hot Air goes on to note, the poll samples Democrats 5 percentage points more than GOPers. This is a devastating poll for the man who won 53% of the vote less than two years ago. It is a long way to 2012, but its hard – very hard – for a President to recover lost popularity.
Additionally, as the MSM continues to lose influence and the New Media becomes larger, the narratives developed by the MSM for people such as Sarah Palin will become weaker. It took relentless hounding to develop the memes, and that relentless hounding is going to fade away as time goes on, allowing all of the Republicans to better craft their own public image. Meanwhile, Obama is stuck – as it were – in the White House where daily decisions are his and if things don’t get wonderful, he’ll be blamed for everything which goes wrong (its not necessarily fair that it works out that way, but it does – and we GOPers were on the heavy receiving end of it from mid-2005 on).
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