While Palin's approval rating was at 54% in May (the most recent date I could find numbers for) that's a long way off her 90+ per cent high in 2007 and below the 59% of Alaskans who voted for McCain in 2008. Also, her approval rating has been dropping steadily ever since the end of the campaign as she has been more and more pre-occupied (or seen as being so) with National maters.
So, it's not quite as rosy as you paint it, especially considering she's leaving office a year and a half early.
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