52% of voters’ views are more like Palin’s than Obama’s

Sarah Palin at the Time 100 Gala, in Manhattan May 4, 2010. Photo by David Shankbone.

Sarah Palin wasn’t in the crowd of Dancing With the Stars Monday night, but she did make an appearance in a revealing Rasmussen poll.

The recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that fifty-two percent (52%) of likely U.S. Voters say their own views are closer to Sarah Palin’s than they are to President Obama’s.

Just 40% say their views are closer to the president’s than to those of the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate.

Among the Political Class, however, 68% say their views are more like Obama’s, while 63% of Mainstream voters describe their views as more like Palin’s.

Eighty-four percent (84%) of Republicans and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major party say their views are more like Palin’s. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats say they think more like the president.

The survey is interesting because even though it shows that the Political Class doesn’t like Palin, it does show that even though Sarah Palin’s views are considered extreme, 60% of Mainstream voters have a favorable opinion of the former governor and 51% of those in the Mainstream say she’s good for the GOP.

As published on Examiner.com.