Not a Sarah Palin diary. Yay!
It seems Michelle's speech was wildly successful in rehabilitating her image!
Just days after Michelle Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention, a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that her favorability ratings have reached their highest levels since tracking began and she is now viewed more favorably than Cindy McCain.
Obama, whose controversial comments earlier in the campaign, made her the focus of much media scrutiny, now is viewed favorably by 55% of voters and unfavorably by only 36%. Two weeks ago, the wife of the Democratic Presidential nominee, was viewed favorably by 48% and unfavorably by 43%.
Thirty-four percent (34%) now view the potential first lady Very Favorably, a major improvement from 24% who held such a positive view of her in earlier surveys. Twenty-two percent (22%) now have a very unfavorable impression of Obama.
They say her improvement comes across all demographics, but more from men than from women.
I already felt that our convention was wildly successful. But this development is important because it shows that the really important work of making the Obama family seem familiar has been done. The whole "Otherness" meme was, by far, the most damaging, in my opinion. The fact that conservatives had been so able to demonize Michelle was dragging Barack's numbers down as well. So this is an important step and I expect those numbers to rise.
Anyway...back to the Sarah Palin madness!!