You know the drill. Laura Bush's former flak basically gets paid by the LA Times to blog about polling numbers. Or more specifically, he gets paid to cherry-pick polling data. That's his job. Except when it comes to awful polling numbers for his beloved Sarah Palin. For that assignment Malcolm can't quite pull the trigger.

So my long-standing dare still stands: Prove you're more than a GOP hack and actually acknowledge Palin's painfully low standing with voters.

Here's the latest material for Malcolm to tackle, courtesy Time [emphasis added]:

A new TIME poll shows Palin losing to Obama 55% to 34%, a lopsided margin that leads some Republican strategists to predict a wipeout if Palin is eventually chosen as the party's nominee.