{"id":5927,"date":"2009-07-24T16:14:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T23:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/07\/poll-majority-dont-approve-of-palin\/"},"modified":"2009-07-24T16:12:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T23:12:42","slug":"poll-majority-dont-approve-of-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/07\/poll-majority-dont-approve-of-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Majority don&#8217;t approve of Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/\">\n<p>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/07\/art.palinclap0706.gi.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"219\" alt=\"art.palinclap0706.gi.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(CNN) \u2014 Two days before Sarah Palin steps down from office, a new national poll indicates that a majority of Americans have an unfavorable view of the outgoing Alaska governor. But the ABC News\/Washington Post survey released Friday also suggests that seven out of 10 Republican voters maintain a positive opinion of last year&#8217;s GOP Vice Presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-three percent of those questioned in the poll view Palin negatively, with four in 10 holding a positive view of her. The survey is the second this week, following a Fox News\/Opinion Dynamics poll released Thursday, to find more than half of all Americans viewing Palin in an unfavorable light.<\/p>\n<p>The ABC News\/Washington Post survey suggests that there is doubt about Palin&#8217;s leadership skills and her understanding of intricate issues. Fifty-seven percent say they don&#8217;t think Palin understands complex issues, and 54 percent do not feel she is a strong leader. The poll finds that Americans are split on whether Palin shares their values and understands the problems most people face. A slim majority of people questioned in the poll say Palin is honest and trustworthy, with four in 10 disagreeing.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/\" ><cite>CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time &#8211; Blogs from CNN.com<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the ABC News\/Washington Post survey released Friday also suggests that seven out of 10 Republican voters maintain a positive opinion of last year&#8217;s GOP Vice Presidential nominee.  &#8230;  The survey is the second this week, following a Fox News\/Opinion Dynamics poll released Thursday, to find more than half of all Americans viewing Palin in an unfavorable light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1xB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5929,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions\/5929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}