DesMoinesRegister reports:
According to The Des Moines Register's latest Iowa Poll, 62 percent of Republicans who identified themselves as likely to vote in this week's primary election are very or mostly favorable toward Romney. Palin follows, with 58 percent very or mostly favorable about her, with Gingrich at 56 percent.
Related, via The Politico:
FIRST LOOK -- Forthcoming Newsweek cover, “Saint Sarah: What Palin’s Appeal to Conservative Christian Women Says about Feminism and the Future of the Religious Right,” by Lisa Miller: “Palin has been antagonizing women on the left of late by describing herself as a ‘feminist,’ a word she uses to mean the righteous, mama-bear anger that wells up when one of her children is attacked in the press or her values brought into question. But while leftist critics continue to shred Palin as a cynical, shallow, ill-informed opportunist, … Palin is now playing to her strengths. Even if she never again seeks elected office, her pro-woman rallying cry, articulated in the evangelical vernacular, together with the potent pro-life example of her own family, puts Palin in a position to reshape and reinvigorate the religious right, one of the most powerful forces in American politics. The Christian right is now poised to become a women's movement -- and Sarah Palin its earthy Jerry Falwell.” Cover
Saint Sarah... has an interesting ring to it.
Hear that loud noise? That is heads exploding all across the blogosphere.
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