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The American public has seen through the vicious media attacks on Sarah Palin as an attempt to help Barack Obama and to hurt Palin. This news from The Rasmussen Report is only the tip of the iceberg, however. While 42% of independents see Barack Obama qualified to be President, almost as many see Palin just as qualified for that job. And she’s not running for that office.
Over half of U.S. voters (51%) think reporters are trying to hurt Sarah Palin with their news coverage, and 24% say those stories make them more likely to vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in November.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) also believe the GOP vice presidential nominee has better experience to be president of the United States than Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
But 49% give Obama the edge on experience, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey – taken before Palin’s historic speech Wednesday night to the Republican National Convention.
While Republicans and Democrats predictably favor their party’s candidate by overwhelming margins, the experience gap among voters unaffiliated with either party is even narrower than the national totals. Forty-two percent (42%) say Obama has better experience to be president, but 37% say Palin does.
This is really bad news for Obama and even worse news for his pals in the media. You really have to read the rest of the results about the media bias to see how bad the news is for them.
This is the beginning of the backlash I predicted. It will not get better for the media or for Obama anytime soon. Palin did a spectacular job last night and I suspect these numbers are going to change – for the worse – for the media and for Obama himself.
By martian, September 5, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
The more she speaks and remains poised and confident, the more the Obamessiah’s little temper tantrums (She’s talking like she’s Annie Oakley!) that make him look like a small boy not getting his way will be highlighted by contrast. So far, she has given a much better showing than He Whose Middle Name Must Not Be Spoken.