Pelosi and Palin’s Popularity

It is a comparison that neither will like, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin have similarly high negative ratings. Palin’s positives are higher than Pelosi’s. In the July NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 15 percent had a positive opinion of Pelosi and 44 percent a negative one. Those responses for Sarah Palin were 32 and 43 percent, respectively. In the Battleground poll conducted by the bipartisan polling team of Lake Research Partners and the Tarrance Group, 32 percent had a favorable opinion of Pelosi and 51 percent a negative one. As for Palin, those responses were 42 and 47 percent, respectively. In the Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll responses shown here, 29 percent had a favorable opinion of Pelosi, and 47 percent an unfavorable one.  For Palin, those responses were 38 and 51 percent, respectively.
 
Source: Fox News/Opinion Dynamics, July 2009.