CNN.com grades the political speeches and often has little surveys on the side tab. Given typical survey results, I think their readers are generally center-left. Well, the grade report card for Palin’s speech indicated one B and four A grades. And at the moment Palin is up by 9% in their survey of whether her speech was “thumb’s up” or “down”.
A trenchant observation from Dick Morris in the New York Post today:
Now the Democrats are stuck in a trap. They’ve demeaned, patronized and smeared a woman who’s well on her way to becoming very, very popular. Her speech will create legions of fans; the Democratic smears of the last few days will create, for Obama, legions of enemies.
This man who dedicated two years to stopping a woman from being president now has to answer for spending two months stopping one from becoming vice president – a task he hopes to accomplish using women’s votes.
Morris believes that single moms are an important swing vote constituency in this election. And that in Sarah Palin “they’re finding…an advocate whose life isn’t far different from their own and whose priorities mirror theirs’.” Read the whole thing.