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Americans in a recent Gallup poll placed Sarah Palin as the second most respected woman in America, second only to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pretty heady stuff for the down home girl from Wasilla.
"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you" Christian Morganstern
Alaskans surely do understand Sarah Palin, as demonstrated in a new PPP poll released this week. Palin’s popularity back home in Alaska is quickly bottoming out and skidding along at 33 per cent, with only liberal Massachusetts showing slightly stronger disapproval ratings.
By the time her TLC show "Sarah Palin’s Alaska" winds up, Palin’s ability to count on Alaska for backing in her presidential plans will be less a landslide of support, and more of a snowball’s chance in a warmer climate.