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COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin won a poll? She did. And not some questionable right-wing website poll, either. Sarah Palin came out on top of a Reuters/IPSOS poll released last week. But where was/is the media attention?
Oh, yeah, that's right. The press was reporting on those emails.
Instead of reporting on something a little more important, like the resurrection of the political Sarah Palin, the mainstream media went after the finally released -- after three years -- Alaska gubernatorial emails that had been requested in September 2008. After three days of intense scrutiny, the media seems to have found nothing worse than a predisposition of the former governor to believe that the media might be her worst enemy. As it turns out, it appears that, for all her faults, Palin may have been correct on that score. As the investigation of the emails turned out -- nothing substantive to report.
Which appears to be about the gist of the amount of reporting done on a poll that actually showed Palin ahead instead of trailing.
The poll indicated Palin had a two-point lead on former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (22 percent to 20 percent), the guy who has been leading and, in some cases, dominating Republican preference polls.
Palin remains undeclared as to her intentions of whether or not she actually intends to enter the 2012 race.
The email fiasco might provide her with the little bit of push she needs to make the decision. Finding nothing inflammatory or scandalous, nothing unseemly, and nothing but the day-to-day minutiae of a governor's work schedule and the dealings and deliberations thereof, the former governor could very well use the emails as a backdrop for a presidential run.
And the Reuters/IPSOS poll would have been the first major poll to have seen her as a leader.
You know, that poll that nobody has reported on -- except for Reuters. Maybe if someone had slipped the poll's findings into those batches of email boxes, disguised as a Sarah Palin email.
COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin won a poll? She did. And not some questionable right-wing website poll, either. Sarah Palin came out on top of a Reuters/IPSOS poll released last week. But where was/is the media attention?
Oh, yeah, that's right. The press was reporting on those emails.
Instead of reporting on something a little more important, like the resurrection of the political Sarah Palin, the mainstream media went after the finally released -- after three years -- Alaska gubernatorial emails that had been requested in September 2008. After three days of intense scrutiny, the media seems to have found nothing worse than a predisposition of the former governor to believe that the media might be her worst enemy. As it turns out, it appears that, for all her faults, Palin may have been correct on that score. As the investigation of the emails turned out -- nothing substantive to report.
Which appears to be about the gist of the amount of reporting done on a poll that actually showed Palin ahead instead of trailing.
The poll indicated Palin had a two-point lead on former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (22 percent to 20 percent), the guy who has been leading and, in some cases, dominating Republican preference polls.
Palin remains undeclared as to her intentions of whether or not she actually intends to enter the 2012 race.
The email fiasco might provide her with the little bit of push she needs to make the decision. Finding nothing inflammatory or scandalous, nothing unseemly, and nothing but the day-to-day minutiae of a governor's work schedule and the dealings and deliberations thereof, the former governor could very well use the emails as a backdrop for a presidential run.
And the Reuters/IPSOS poll would have been the first major poll to have seen her as a leader.
You know, that poll that nobody has reported on -- except for Reuters. Maybe if someone had slipped the poll's findings into those batches of email boxes, disguised as a Sarah Palin email.
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