Time To Leave Home?

I have always known that the good people of Alaska were a pragmatic lot.

From Public Policy Polling:

We've polled Palin's favorability in ten states over the last couple months. In Alaska just 33% of voters have a favorable opinion of her to 58% with a negative one. The only place where fewer voters see her positively than her own home state is dark blue Massachusetts.

Democrats hate Palin in Alaska but they hate her everywhere so there's nothing newsworthy about that. What makes her home state numbers unusually bad is that Republicans see her favorably by only a 60/30 margin. In most places she's closer to 80% favorability within her own party. Also while independents don't like her anywhere their level of animosity in Alaska is unusually large- 65% unfavorable to only 25% with a favorable opinion.

Still, it’s a shame they are returning sitting Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski to Washington, DC when they could have had Scott McAdams, Mayor of Sitka. Interesting math on that November 2010 race, though:

It's not a coincidence that the 35% of the vote Joe Miller appears to have received in the Alaska Senate race is almost identical to the 33% who have a favorable opinion of Palin. Miller allowed himself to practically become a surrogate for Palin and while that was good for letting him pull off a primary victory by the slimmest of margins it was not so good for his prospects in the general election.

Well, at least Bristol Palin is getting out of town. If the rumors are correct, she just bought a foreclosed home for $172,000 in Arizona and might be planning on attending college there.