{"id":330705,"date":"2010-02-17T10:28:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76793"},"modified":"2010-02-17T10:28:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:28:50","slug":"andrew-malcolm%e2%80%99s-embarrassing-palin-flacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330705","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Malcolm\u2019s Embarrassing Palin-Flacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin K. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rumproast.com\/index.php\/site\/comments\/a_serious_woman\/\">catches the Los Angeles Times&#8217;s Andrew Malcolm<\/a> in a head-spinningly strange fit of Sarah Palin-boosting.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Something to ponder for 2012: Sarah Palin\u2019s ahead of where Obama was 30 months before his nomination<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent Washington Post\/ABC News Poll found that 30 months out from the 2012 party presidential nominations, only 71% of Americans believe that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be president.<span id=\"more-76793\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This compares with someone named Barack Obama. At the same point in his then unannounced campaign, 0% thought he was qualified for the Oval Office. That\u2019s because he wasn\u2019t even on the polling lists\u2019 radar then.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this is good for the newspaper&#8217;s traffic, but it&#8217;s deeply silly. There was a poll on this topic when Obama got into the presidential race in February 2007. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/26596\/Perceived-Experience-Major-Asset-Clinton-McCain-2008-Race.aspx\">40 percent of survey subjects gave their reason<\/a> for not supporting Obama as &#8220;lacks experience to be president\/not experienced enough.&#8221; Even if you merge that with the 7 percent who said Obama was &#8220;not qualified,&#8221; that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/26596\/Perceived-Experience-Major-Asset-Clinton-McCain-2008-Race.aspx\">24 points lower<\/a> than the number of people who say, right now, that 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is not fit for the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Palin fans have to engage in spin like this really says it all about her 2012 chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin K. catches the Los Angeles Times&#8217;s Andrew Malcolm in a head-spinningly strange fit of Sarah Palin-boosting. Something to ponder for 2012: Sarah Palin\u2019s ahead of where Obama was 30 months before his nomination A recent Washington Post\/ABC News Poll found that 30 months out from the 2012 party presidential nominations, only 71% of Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}