{"id":1882,"date":"2009-11-19T08:46:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2009-11-19T08:46:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:46:23","slug":"how-could-sarah-palin-become-a-viable-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/how-could-sarah-palin-become-a-viable-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"How could Sarah Palin become a viable presidential candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=OTJiMTk0MDUzOWViNmIzNzk5ODU5Mzc4ODU4YmNiNzA=\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Potemra<\/a> has a solid idea of how Palin could overcome her weakness in public perception . . . and it&#8217;s not even something <em>she<\/em> has to do:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to this CNN poll, only 28 percent of Americans believe Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. For a person as well known to the public as Palin, that is an appallingly low number. For someone who is already so firmly fixed in the national consciousness &mdash; more: who has already reached a stratospheric level of celebrity &mdash; where is the room for growth in popularity? Who are the people who could possibly move from the 70-odd percent who declare Palin unqualified, into the 30-odd percent who believe she is qualified?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is: <em>people who become convinced that her current low public image is largely the result of unfair depictions of her in the media<\/em>. [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>If prominent media figures show an obsession with Palin that is so deep that they put the rest of the world on hold just because she wrote a book &mdash; <em>then<\/em> people might start suspecting that, yes, maybe there really is some animus in media elites, and maybe we should give Palin another chance. That\u2019s when the 70-some percent starts to melt away, and a Palin presidency becomes conceivable. The second step, from \u201cconceivable\u201d to \u201clikely,\u201d is an even shorter step than the first.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Potemra has a solid idea of how Palin could overcome her weakness in public perception . . . and it&#8217;s not even something she has to do: According to this CNN poll, only 28 percent of Americans believe Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. For a person as well known to the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-sarahpalin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-um","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}