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"Mr. Obama’s favorability is the highest for a presidential candidate running for a first term in the last 28 years of Times/CBS polls. Mrs. Palin’s negative rating is the highest for a vice-presidential candidate as measured by The Times and CBS News. Even Dan Quayle, with whom Mrs. Palin is often compared because of her age and inexperience on the national scene, was not viewed as negatively in the 1988 campaign.
This is an incredible factoid. Let's look at those numbers in polls that asked for Obama's Favorable/Unfavorable numbers from the beginning of the year, when this campaign began:
CNN:
1/9-10: 55/28
10/17-19: 62/35CBS:
2/20-24: 45/23
10/17-19: 53/33ABC/WaPo:
1/9-12: 63/30
10/8-11: 64/33Newsweek
3/5-6: 61/28
10/8-9: 60/36Gallup:
1/10-13: 59/32
10/3-5: 62/34Now think about what's happened in the last year -- a bruising primary, Jeremiah Wright, bittergate, Tony Rezko, PUMA b.s., hateful emails, months of non-stop Republican smears regarding Ayers, the spreading of rumors that he's a terrorist and Muslim.
And despite it all, he has actually increased his favorability ratings in all but one of these polls? And Newsweek's earliest poll of the year was March, conducted at a down point in Obama's primary campaign (just after losing Texas and Ohio). So all in all, hundreds of millions of dollars and billions of smear emails later, and the best Republicans have been able to do is inch up his negatives?
Republicans tried to sell a patently false story -- that Obama was a secret Muslim Marxist terrorist -- and the public proved to smart for the GOP.
McCain didn't fare as well, but his numbers have still held up quite well. What we have here is an election that won't be decided on the worst smears, but on substance. And in such an environment, the GOP is ill-equipped to compete.
So as we see Jeremiah Wright make his comeback in the next 10 days, realize that Obama has weathered this guy and much more already. The American people are just not willing to believe the crap that Republicans say about Barack."