On MSNBC you are actually getting people talking about the power of Sarah Palin. On Morning Joe, on Chris Matthews people are acknowledging her power in the GOP and her ability to get the nomination if she wants it.
The question is. Are they simply acknowledging facts or are they promoting her in the hopes that she can be beat by Obama?
In fact lets have a poll
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They think she’s beatable because they believe their own rhetoric about her. They’ve always underestimated that lady, and today is no different. (It is, however, different from 2008, when they thought she was a political moron.)