Why do 75% of Democrats approve...?

Question

of Sarah Palin in her home state, but the democrats in America are so desperate to cut her down with typical liberal lies?

Answer 1

It's an election year!

75% of Democrats had never even heard of Sarah Palin, and now they hate her with a passion..

It's an election year!

Every election year our economy hangs by thread and our Nations stands at a crucial  crossroads. Every Election year the middle class is on the brink of ruin..

Every election year, the political parties stand polarized against each other in stark contrast..

(if you listen to the speeches any way)

Then the elections over,, someone wins.. the Republicans and Democrats go back to working hand and hand and golfing together on Sunday Afternoons.  

Answer 2

she brought in a ton of earmarks, that's why they love her and her bridge to nowhere money.

Answer 3

Because Alaska is one state with a small population.  Maybe some feel like she wont be able to run the whole country.  

Answer 4

Alaska is a state that has traditionally voted Republican so when you say 75% that number tells nothing  there are only about 626,932 people in Alaska.

Now Bush had 191, 889  or 61% or of the vote in 2004. Kerry had 111,025 or 36% of the vote. The other 11,000 votes cast went to various other non contenders.

That 191, 889 is also almost 2/3 of the population of Alaska. So we can assume that 2/3 are republicans.

Kerry had 1/3 support from all voters so you 75% is only equal to 83,000  or 13% of Alaska population/voters hardly a majority so what is your point?

Also last I checked Alaska was part of America so what do you mean by democrats in America are so desperate to cut her down with typical liberal lies?

Also Palin and her cohorts told some whoppers herself last night. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_o...

So lets not call what has been said lies after all we have only heard about Palin for the last week and with Trooper Gate and the lie on the bridge to nowhere I will take a wait and see approach.

Answer 5

because there's only like 600,000 people there.  

Answer 6

Because she's a fantastic woman who has done wonderful things for her state. Democrats are desperate to counter the Palin effect, which they know will put McCain over Obama in November. They're rightfully afraid.

Answer 7

I'm astonished by the number of people who seem unable to read at all.

The size of the state isn't relevant. Its difficult for a boss of a small company to get 3 out of 4 people to like him. Its a testament to someone doing a better than expected job. 30% of people hate everything. Obviously she's delivered on her promised, and probably more.

Answer 8

Because Alaska has nowhere near the amount of people per state as the rest of the country.

How hard is it to manage all 15 people that live there?lol

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

Answer 9

People in alaska are different from America. their far far away living in ice boxes. and shes the only thing HOT their. lol

Obama 08

Answer 10

Could it be that she took away the perks for the legislatures in her state and the Federal legislatures who have been sponging off our government for ever are afraid she will do the same on the Federal level?  

Could it be that she caught 4 Democrats taking bribes in her legislature and indited them?

Could it be that she went after government waste and the dirty little democrats are afraid she will do away with Federal earmarks?  

Answer 11

okay, its a red state with a population of 600,000...and 75% of dems approve of her...so tell me how many dems live in that state??

Answer 12

It's all about the money sonny, it's all about the money.  You are a republican, you should know that

Answer 13

for the same reason 87% of republicans in Illinois support Obama.  

they are being patriots for their state.  

Answer 14

Good points

I am going to answer the last question. The Democrats like the Clinton's, Obama and Nancy P. will stand up and lie, mislead you, and spin to your face and then get mad at you when show them the facts.

My last point: The left attack honest question they don't like.  But they don't attack the question they attack the asker.

This is a great country and we have nothing to be ashamed of.  

Answer 15

alaska is an iceshelf that belongs to mooses;not people.

therefore you can not make that comparison.

Answer 16

I thought it was over 80 percentage.

Answer 17

Well, it's not THAT hard to convince approximately 55,000 people to approve of the job you're doing as governor.  Understand also that there are types of Republicans and types of Democrats that vary regionally.  As a Northeastern Democrat, I have some substantial philosophical and cultural differences from a southern Democrat.  The same is true of Republicans;  I know for a fact that southern Republicans and Northeastern Republicans are entirely different animals.  So perhaps a Democrat in Alaska is a little more like an Independent?

Also, remember that polls have been notoriously inaccurate in recent years and a very small sample group is used to represent a much wider population segment.

Where Senator Obama is concerned, he represents the entirety of a much, much more populous state, so it's harder to gain a landslide of the vote especially in rural areas.  I wouldn't swear that the statistic that he has 87% approval among Republicans isn't tweaked a bit, but I'd be able to evaluate it better if you could site a link to where this was  said.

As to the article, I haven't seen what people are posting, but I have to say that it's in general the last ditch effort of the scared to protect their confirmation bias to dismiss legitimate news articles as false.  Journalists can lose their entire careers for reporting false information.

EDIT:

Oh, that article.  Well, I believe the source for it was factcheck.org, a highly-reputable non-partisan source cited by d**k Cheney in the last election during his debate with John Edwards (which he got wrong and called factcheck.com, an entirely different thing).

Answer 18

Because they were desperately hoping she would bomb last night...and those hopes were dashed against the icebergy like the Titanic.  Obama campaign  had a slow sinking feeling last night that will continue as long as they try to downplay the abilities of Palin.

They really were hoping for a jellyfish and instead they witnessed a pit bull with lipstick.