CNN Poll: Palin’s popularity on the rise

going-rougeWhile Obama sits at 48% approval rating with all the media slurping, Sarah Palin’s favorable rating on a liberal biased poll like CNN‘s is now approaching his level. Palin’s favorable/unfavorable rating now sits at 46% on both ends, only 2% off Obama’s approval, and up 7% since the summer when Palin’s favorability rating tanked with all the media slurs.

The new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday suggests a partisan divide and a gender gap. The survey indicates that Americans are split on Palin, with 46 percent saying they have a favorable opinion of her and an equal amount saying they have an unfavorable view of last year’s Republican vice presidential nominee.

Eight out of ten Republicans questioned the survey have a favorable opinion of Palin, with more than seven in ten Democrats view her unfavorably. Independents are evenly divided on Palin. According to the poll, 51 percent of men see her in a positive light, with an nearly equal amount of women view Palin in a negative way.

“The gender gap on Palin is not simply a function of the fact that women tend to identify with the Democratic party more than men do,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “Even within GOP circles, Republican men like Palin more than Republican women do. John McCain put Palin on his ticket in 2008 to appeal to female voters, but it looks like men are a natural constituency for her.”

How does the first female vice-presidential major party candidate in more than two decades compare to recent vice presidents?

“Palin is still not as popular Al Gore and remains more unpopular than Joe Biden, but her favorable rating is much higher than Dick Cheney’s,” adds Holland.

Palin’s book tour brought her to Iowa on Sunday. With the former Alaska governor considered a possible contender for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, attention has been sparked by her visit to Iowa, site of the first event on the presidential calendar. Long lines of people have waited hours to see Palin during many stops of her nearly month long book tour.

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December 7, 2009 · Filed Under Sarah Palin


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