Funny crosstab note: More "very liberal" Alaskans want Palin to run for president than "very conservative" Alaskans.
Of course we want her to run because it would result in a near-50 state landslide for whomever the Democratic nominee is, Hillary or anyone else. Wasn't there a poll out that showed her only "beating" Obama by two points in UTAH?!
I think many Alaskans are starting to realize what an embarrassment she has become to the state, and they don't like it.
Sarah Palin's great electoral weakness is her inability to reach people whose first language isn't English. She does about as well in New England as other Republicans (not at all well), but where there are any large groups of people who learned another language first, she does badly. It's not because she talks 'above' them -- if anything she talks below them.
Her neologisms and mangled diction violate the basic rule of talking with anyone who is not a native speaker of English, no matter how adept that person may seem with English -- cleave to the formal register. Such is so whether the person's first language has many similarities to English (the Romance and Germanic languages) or something hugely different (any language of East or Southeast Asia).
