Poll: D.C. elites down on Palin

Poll: "D.C. Elites" Say Sarah Palin Unqualified to Be President
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (Credit: Getty Images) Well-to-do Washingtonians are far less likely than the general American public to believe Sarah Palin qualified to be president - and an overwhelming majority of them believe the former Alaska governor is actually a negative influence on U.S. politics as a whole, according to a Politico poll released Wednesday. The results of two separate surveys conducted Dec. 3-8, one of which sampled 1,000 people nationwide with a 3.1 margin of erro...

Jon Stewart Checks In With RNC Chairmibble Michael Steele
Against all odds, Michael Steele has announced he will in fact run for Reelection as RNC Chair. Though, looking at his track record, you have to think his chances are pretty slim. After all, the GOP doesn't need a clownish self-parody as the face of their party. It's time for someone more serious and less fallible. You know, like Sarah Palin or Carrot Top. The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c. ...

Sarah Palin goes 'lamestream' (Politico)
After making attacks on what she memorably labeled “the lamestream media” one of her signature issues, Sarah Palin has started to experiment with a new strategy toward the press — engaging it. The former Alaska Governor has started cautiously cooperating with some of the same media outlets she and her supporters have accused of unfair and inaccurate coverage they feel has caricatured her as a flaky lightweight — a narrative her team seems determined to rewrite as Palin...

Poll: Obama vs. Palin in 2012
Washington (CNN) - It's the most talked about of all the hypothetical 2012 presidential matchups: President Barack Obama vs. former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. And a new poll indicates that Obama leads the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee by 22 points. According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal survey released Wednesday, 55 percent say they would back Obama in a possible 2012 showdown, with 33 percent saying they would support Palin. Obama's advantage over Palin in the poll is larger than in o...

Video: Obama's Tax Plan Gets Slow Jammed; Steele To Run For Second Term
Pres. Obama 's deal with Republicans to extend the Bush-era Tax Cuts is too much for Jimmy Fallon to handle. Fortunately NBC "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams steps in to help Fallon slow jam the news. Fallon, in slow jam: "Democrats say Obama can't satisfy their legislative desires 'cause he's gone soft. Is he cheating on them with the Republicans?" David Letterman highlights the newest category in the Golden Globe Awards, "Outstanding Performance By An Animal Killed by Sarah Palin." Today's...

Palin Beats Out Obama in Person of the Year Poll
Sarah Palin topped President Obama for "Person of the Year" in a Zogby Poll. Surprisingly, former President G. W. Bush was chosen as "person of the decade." UTICA, NY - Former Vice-Presidential Candidate and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is the Person of the Year for 2010 according to a recent Zogby International survey. The poll, also names former President George W. Bush as the Person of the Decade (2000-2010). ...

Obama Leads 2012 Matchups
Politico reports: President Barack Obama faces an unsure but still supportive electorate heading into the 2012 Campaign, a new poll suggests. In the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released late Wednesday, 42 percent of Americans said they would probably vote to reelect the president, while 39 percent said they would vote for a generic Republican Candidate. Matched up with specific Republican presidential hopefuls, Obama does better. If Mitt Romney were the Republican Candidate, 47 percent o...

Palin, Angle succeed by failing upward
Editor’s note: This column appears in this week’s CityLife. Sarah Palin was plucked from obscurity to run for vice president in 2008. After a campaign in which she demonstrated unmistakably she was unqualified for the office, she quit her job as Governor of Alaska, took a Fox News TV gig, hit the lecture circuit and started her own PAC. Today, her Facebook posts get covered as real news. (By the way, it’s not just me saying Palin was unqualified; former Staffers on her own camp...

Sarah Palin "cautiously cooperating" with mainstream media
Sarah Palin has changed her stance on dealing with the Mainstream Media, Politico is reporting. “This is just about getting the press to characterize the Governor accurately. And, if that can be accomplished through Gov. Palin and some of the people around her talking to the press, we’ll try that.... The Politico article says her previous media strategy was "a high-impact, if unconventional, communication style that almost completely circumvents most traditional media. Instead, she's...

California Voters Increasing in Diversity
Nearly 60% of California voters cast their ballots during this year’s gubernatorial election.  Though California always puts up big numbers compared to other states, this year was the state’s highest turnout for a Governor’s election.  Four years ago 56.2% of Registered Voters visited the Ballot Box.   “The race for governor and some Controversial propositions drew the highest number of people to the polls in five gubernatorial Elections,” said S...

Poll: D.C. elites down on Sarah Palin - Andy Barr
She told you so. Washington elites, it turns out, do look down their noses at Sarah Palin. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset VIDEO: Poll analysis Politico 44 The former Alaska GOP Governor has been saying it for more than two years now, and a new POLITICO poll released Wednesday suggests she’s right. Just 11 percent of the D.C. elites surveyed said they believe Palin is qualified to be president, less than half of the general public — 23 percent — who believe the same...

Michael Steele Confirms He's Running for Another RNC Term
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele will seek a second two-year term, he told committee members on Monday, further scrambling a campaign that has already attracted several Candidates hungry to replace the Incumbent. "We fired Pelosi , so now we must increase our resources and strengthen ourselves further at the Grassroots level," Steele said Monday during a private conference call with the committee's 168 voting me...

Wagners RNC Bid Gains Steam
Tennessee National Committeeman John Ryder has announced today his support for former RNC co-chair Ann Wagner, who is running to replace Chairman Michael Steele. This is especially notable because Steele trusted Ryder enough to appoint him as chairman of the RNC Redistricting Committee back in 2009. While Ryder doesn’t criticize Steele directly, he said that the RNC has not been focused enough on electing Republicans to office. “We have had too much drama, too many distractions,&#...

Dawson won’t seek GOP post
Former S.C. Republican Party Leader Katon Dawson said Thursday he won’t run against embattled Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. Dawson narrowly lost to Steele in 2009 to lead the Republican Party. Steele announced Monday that he would seek a Second Term. “It’s good to be in South Carolina,” Dawson said. “Staying home was more attractive this time.” Dawson said he wants to work to get a Republican elected president in 2012, although he has not ...

Afternoon Fix: Senate passes tax cut bill; more presidential debates set for New Hampshire and South Carolina; Coleman won't bac
Will Health Care hurt President Obama? (VIDEO) Check out the latest inductees in the Fix's political pantheon. The best of the best of state-based political blogs -- as of April 2009. Will Health Care hurt President Obama? (VIDEO) * The Senate passed President Obama 's Tax Cut Compromise today, 81-19. The House, where passage should prove much tougher, is expected to take it up on Thursday. * More 2012 GOP presidential primary debates have been set. ABC News will air a debate from New Hampshir...

No RNC bid for Coleman
Washington (CNN) - Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman confirmed Wednesday that he will not challenge Michael Steele for the Republican National Committee chairmanship. "I've been pretty consistent on this, it's very simple," Coleman told MinnPost.com. "I've said if Steele was running, I wouldn't run against him. He strongly supported me in the past; I made that commitment to him a number of months ago - if he's in I'm not in." Though interested in the job, Coleman has long said he would no...

Dawson Wont Run
Let’s be honest, Michael Steele has been an unmitigated disaster as Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Almost as big a disaster as Barack Obama has been as President. Fiscally, ideologically … both are running bankrupt entities even further into the ground. If we were Racist, we might have some fun with that … but thankfully we live in a post-racial world. Who doesn’t live in a post-racial world? Anyway, Dawson - who has also been affiliated with a...

StupidiNews!
Current Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele will run to keep his seat, despite reports he would step down. Time Magazine readers have selected Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as the reader's choice for Time's Person of the Year. The Obama-McConnell tax deal looks like it will pass the Senate, but faces a very uncertain future in the House. New figures showing Canadians in deeper Debt than their US neighbors has prompted worried about Interest Rates. The latest expansion for World...

Battle for G.O.P. Chairmanship Is Hottest Race Around
WASHINGTON — For all the talk about the new tools of politics, for all the talk about the rising influence of outside groups and third-party alliances, the fight to lead the Republican National Committee highlights a telling lesson: The old establishment is still a coveted place to be. The latest on President Obama, the new Congress and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. The campaign for Republican chairman has emerged as the Hottest competition in town...

Clearing the Browser Tabs Taking a Day Tuesday Edition
I decided to take the day off today to run a few errands and take care of some pre-Christmas housework, so blogging will be on a “catch as catch can” schedule. I’ll surely get some writing done, I’m just not sure when. Tonight’s live recording of The Delivery ought to be a lot of fun. My guests will be James Pethokoukis and Greg Wyshynski, in the first and second half respectively. We’ll be talking about the economics of the tax deal and what makes hockey such...

Steele Plans RNC Re-election Run
WASHINGTON (AP) - Embattled GOP Chairman Michael Steele is telling Republican National Committee members that he's running for re-election. That's according to several participants listening to a Conference Call Monday night between Steele and the 168-member committee. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the call was private. The RNC will vote in January on whether to grant Steele a second two-year term or choose a successor from a multicandidate field. Steele has watched his once s...

GOP watch: The Crying Game
Gail Collins wonders how Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton would have been perceived if they cried openly like Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner has. “The most arresting moment [in the “60 Minutes” interview] came when Boehner told Stahl he can no longer make visits to schools, or even look at the little kids on the playground, because he immediately starts crying. That had me alarmed. I thought there was going to be some terrible story about an ailing child that would then force m...

Daily scoreboard
1. From Al Gore: “Fox News Manipulates Climate Coverage.” Hey, manipulating Global Warming data is his job. GOOD. 2. From the Amandala newspaper in Belize: “Police find $10,000 worth of weed and an AK-47 rifle.“ The Scorekeeper thought the song went “Weed and Wine,” not “Weed and Carbine.” EVIL. 3. From the Washington Times: “Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a broad agenda for an end-of-session sprint that otherwise could be a whole yea...

Anybody but Steele
Say what you will about him — Michael Steele plays by nobody else’s rules. He shocked the political world on Monday night by announcing he’d run for Reelection as chairman of the Republican National Committee. We admire his pluck, but not his judgment. It’s time for someone else to run the RNC. Steele is an infectiously likeable guy with an inspiring personal story. The adopted son of a laundress and a truck driver who credits his bootstrapping mother and Ronald Reagan wi...

Michael Steele Faces Backlash from GOP
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele (Credit: Getty Images) In the wake of Michael Steele's Monday night announcement that, after much speculation to the contrary, he will be seeking re-election to chair the Republican National Committee (RNC), a number of influential Party Leaders made it clear that they would be actively seeking an alternative. "We admire his pluck, but not his judgment. It's time for someone else to run the RNC," read a Wednesday editorial in the conservat...