{"id":2112,"date":"2011-06-28T18:55:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2011-06-28T18:55:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:55:51","slug":"yeah-if-you-dont-count-sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, If You Don’t Count Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public Policy Polling released a new poll <\/a>today trumpeting Michele Bachmann’s surge to the lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination <\/strong> in Montana and Oregon.<\/p>\n

We’ve never found her leading one of our state polls until now but Michele Bachmann’s been on fire for the last two weeks and we find her at the top of the GOP field in both Oregon and Montana when Sarah Palin’s not included<\/strong> [Emphasis added.]. That’s just more indication that if Palin ends up not running Bachmann will pretty instantaneously vault to co-front runner status with Mitt Romney, provided she can continue her current momentum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You gotta love the these guys: No matter what the facts are they’ll twist ’em until they can write the story they want. And I bet the pollsters would rather take a beating than have to admit that, “In both Montana and Oregon Palin has easily the best net favorability of any of the GOP contenders…” After almost three years of the most vitriolic, obnoxious, mean-spirited, inaccurate, incessant, lying attacks, Sarah Palin remains a strong contender. With Obumble’s ratings doing a reasonable impression of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” nosedive, his campaign staff and media helpers have to be practically catatonic with worry. The last thing Jim Messina wants is to have to put the TOTUS up against a SARAHCUDA next year, because he knows<\/em> deep-down that the headlines on November 7, 2012 can only proclaim BO the winner if Sarah Palin doesn’t run. Count on it.<\/p>\n

For those of you who like visual aids – below are two photos that illustrate my point very well. Both Sarah and Obama were in Iowa today. <\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of Sarah greeting some of the crowd outside the Pella, Iowa Opera House this afternoon before the screening of “The Undefeated”. <\/p>\n

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\n [H\/T Politicons.net]<\/p>\n

And here’s the President at the Alcoa factory where he was, as the LA Times put it, “[P]leading for yet more time to create new jobs – and keep his.”<\/p>\n

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\n[H\/T DesMoines Register]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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