So have we all seen the new Palin poll?

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Whoops! I deleted what someone cited.

Although the core political values of Sarah Palin are compatible with GOP voters, I must take back my contention that she would lose the GOP nomination just because a majority of GOP voters now think her unqualified to be President.  She could win a 40-30-30 split in the Republican delegate count that manifests itself in a knock-down, drag-out contest in the Republican National Convention. Of course she would be trounced in the general election. She is NOT too right-wing and corporate-friendly for the GOP, but she has some unattractive characteristics as a candidate in the general election. All that President Obama would need do is to show a steady hand as a leader from now until November 2012, and he could win in a landslide.   

She could induce a third-party challenge to her Presidential bid (Huckabee-Lieberman?), and that would split conservative votes enough that Obama would win in some surprising places -- like Kansas and Mississippi. She would be in third place in electoral votes with an Obama landslide. 

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New Economist/YouGov poll gives similar #s on Palin favorability:

http://media.economist.com/images/pdf/Toplines20100211.pdf

very favorable 20%
somewhat favorable 19%

very unfavorable 38%
somewhat unfavorable 16%

Still better numbers than Nancy Pelosi though.

Nancy Pelosi did not fall so far so fast. As Speaker of the House, she gets the brunt of an almost permanent public contempt for Congress as a whole.

Unlike Sarah Palin, whose fall relates to her behavior instead of to her political stances, Nancy Pelosi has some chance of a comeback.