PBS' Gwen Ifill might want to rethink her Palin analysis
November 17, 2009 2:04 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
Appearing on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos over the weekend, Ifill suggested women voters are intrigued by Palin's tale: "You cannot underestimate the degree that women will be drawn to her story."
Actually, you can underestimate it. Women voters are kinda, sorta turned off by Palin's story [emphasis added]:
Among women, who, theoretically, should form the base of Palin's support, nearly four in ten (39 percent) have a strongly unfavorable impression of her while just 20 percent were strongly favorable. Overall 39 percent of women had a favorable impression of Palin while 57 percent had an unfavorable one.
(h/t Eschaton)
I have no idea which of those ideas Ifill meant to convey here.
I am a bit surprised the Gwen Ifill actually would say this.
Do your job instead of appeasing the 20%-nutjob wing (Note that in every single poll there's always 20% that "agree with Glenn Beck", a few points here or there, but never any real change from 20%).
Women don't have to approve of her to recognize the story of a bunch of guys sitting around a table calling a woman a joke and agonizing over why they are wasting their time sitting around a table calling a woman a joke.
I was at a Border's Books just outside Pine Apple, Alabama last night and they giving--yes, GIVING--the books away. And no one even wanted the book. In fact, I stood around for about a half an hour and several folks brought their books in and dropped them on the giveaway table, saying stuff like, "I don't want this garbage," or, "This gal is a loon!" It was amazing.