What a difference a national campaign makes! Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, former candidate for Vice President on the Republican ticket, once commanded an 85% approval rating in her home state, highest in the nation.
But now she has lost the most popular Governor title to Connecticut's Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell. And she is not even the most popular politician in her own state anymore, losing that distinction to Senator Lisa Murkowski.
Here is one perspective on why Palin is losing ground, from Shannyn Moore of the Huffington Post: