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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement may not be a blessing to congressional candidates, Greg Sargent finds in the internals of a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. The same, to a much lesser degree, could be said about President Barack Obama.
“The poll asked people how they’d respond if a Congressional candidate had various hypothetical attributes,” Sargent wrote. And the poll found that being endorsed by Palin was a definite drag on the candidate — just 8 percent were enthusiastic about this attribute and 17 percent were comfortable with it. Meanwhile, 52 percent either had “some reservations” or were “very uncomfortable” with this attribute.
While the poll looked only at Congressional candidates, it could provide a window into the governor’s race – Palin has endorsed Republican candidate Susana Martinez.
Ten percent would be enthusiastic and 26 percent would be comfortable with a candidate who was endorsed by President Barack Obama. And 43 percent would “have some reservations” or would be “very uncomfortable” with a candidate who was endorsed by Obama.
The poll finds that supporting Arizona’s new immigration law is an attribute that 46 percent would be “enthusiastic about” or “comfortable with” while 38 percent would “have some reservations about” would be “very uncomfortable” with a candidate who has this view.
“There were only two attributes a candidate might have that were seen as worse than a Palin endorsement: Supporting Bush’s economic policies; and supporting the elimination of various Federal agencies and/or Social Security,” Sargent wrote.
You can look at the full results of the NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll here. The poll reached 1,000 adults, including 200 reached by cell phone, from June 17-21 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percent.
