Rasmussen Reports has just released the first poll on Sarah Palin taken after her speech and the results show that while she is doing good with Republicans, there is still a high percentage of other voters who are unsure.

Overall, 51% of the voters think she was the right choice while 32% say she was not and 17% are not sure. She does better with men than she does with women, getting a yes from 55% of the men 48% of the women. An equal amount of men and women - 17%- are not sure. She has won over the Republicans getting a yes from 81%, no from 10% with 9% unsure. However, with the Democrats she gets a yes from 26%, no from 54% and an unsure from 26%. She is not winning over the Hillary Clinton supporters like it was thought she would. She fares a bit better with the third party and independent voters getting 52% yes, 25% no and 23% still not sure.

The voters are much more certain when it comes to giving her a favorable or unfavorable rating. And this points out the fact that just because a candidate gets a favorable rating, it does not necessarily mean that they will get the vote. A voter can view more than one candidate as favorable, but can only vote for one. Overall, Palin gets 40% very favorable, 18% somewhat favorable, 19% somewhat unfavorable and 18% very unfavorable. Again, she does much better with men than with women with 45% of the men and 36% of the women, giving her a very favorable rating and 12% of the men and 23% of the women giving her a vary unfavorable rating.

But just 40% think that she would be able to take over as President, a lot less than the 58% who give her at least a somewhat favorable rating. This comes from 45% of the men and 35% of the women. Overall 46% say she is not ready - 42% of the men and 49% of the women. And 15% - 13% of the men and 16% of the women- are not sure.

She is not hitting the mark on the question of experience either with 48% - 44% of the men and 52% of the women giver the nod to Barack Obama and 44% - 47% of the men and 41% of the women saying it is Palin.

So far, everything point to Palin getting support, but from the same demographics as John McCain. She needs to get support from other groups - Hillary Clinton supporters for one - and that is not happening. She has to hit the campaign trail and convince the American voters that she has a knowledge of national and international affairs, way beyond the borders of Alaska.

Popularity: 35% [?]