Yahoo! Polls report that McCain’s decline in public image polls are also reflected in Palin’s decline in public image. Last month, people who said Palin made them more likely to vote for McCain exceeded those who said they were less likely by 14 points. This month, it is down to 3 points.
Mark Halperin and John Harris’ The Way to Win describes the most important Trade Secret during the Presidential Election: The presidential candidate who better keeps control of his public image wins the election. The McCain/Palin ticket is letting the image of supposed honest politics slip away quickly.
Of course, the image quote applies to ‘her’, too, but the McCain/Palin ticket is failing evenly, on both sides of the ticket. If I had to guess, I’d attribute this to the spike in negative ads. The Republican is making a last ditch attempt to grasp at straws to get more support. Some advice? Negative ads disaffect voters! No one wants to see you clawing at Obama’s face, while he stands there and takes it, ESPECIALLY if you have the facts wrong (Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was notorious; there is little plausibility they were working together, no matter how hard you try to link them).
Palin, stop focusing your speeches on Obama bashing! America barely knows you, and we don’t want to know you as “that woman who wasn’t qualified and was too busy letting her audience call Obama a terrorist to tell us what she believes in.”
You have 18 days to get in control of your image. Ready, set, go!
Side note: the picture above is from moremuslimthanobama.com. Hilarious.
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