Washington (CNN) - A new national poll indicates that 56 percent of all Americans have an unfavorable view of Sarah Palin, an all-time high for the former Alaska governor. That 56 percent unfavorable figure is up seven points from just before the midterm elections, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Wednesday morning.

Thirty-eight percent of people questioned in the poll say they have a favorable view of the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, down two points from October.

The poll was conducted following a difficult two week stretch for Palin, who is considering a run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. Palin was in the spotlight following the Jan. 8 shootings at a "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Tucson, Arizona supermarket, which left six people dead and 13 wounded. Authorities believe Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously wounded as the target of the mass shootings. A 22-year-old suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, is in custody.

Following the shootings critics suggested Palin's at-times charged political rhetoric and use of a graphic featuring crosshairs may have contributed to the shooter's motivations. The graphic was part of a website that Palin put up last year, during the divisive debate over health care reform, to highlight 20 congressional districts won by Sen. John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, where Democratic representatives were voting in favor of the legislation.

According to the survey, Palin's unfavorable rating is up 10 points among women, compared to just three points among men, and among independent voters, her unfavorable rating has grown a whopping 14 points.

Does the dip in Palin's favorable ratings have anything to do with her website?

"Probably not directly, but the public may have been turned off by her reaction to the controversy surrounding that website," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Poll results released earlier this week show that most Americans do not blame her website for the shootings in Arizona. But women and independents - two groups that tend to prefer civility and bipartisanship - may have disliked her combative reaction to suggestions that the website was involved."

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted Jan. 14-16, with 1,014 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/19/cnn-poll-palin-unfavorable-rating-at-all-time-high/

IS her five minuts of fame up yet?

We can only hope.

Damn, you are truly obsessed with her...............

you noticed that too, huh...

Yea, it's kinda creepy.

you jealous?...lol

Palin is a windbag opertunist she is worthy of contempt. Only in umerika can such a shallow moronic women be elivated by a shallow and moronic mass media.

I cringe in shame whenever I see her on TV or read about her.

A failed Govenor somehow has become a weird cult leader and managed to become a millionaire doing it.


Every time she opens her mouth or comments its the weirdest twisted logic I have ever heard.

I know for a fact if she were to be seen without her makeover her popularity would plummet and this shames me even more to think the american people are so shallow.

i don't know what your being all critical about, you post just as much crap about her as anyone else.... if you guys really didn't like her, you would quit posting about her... it is people like you and fanta here that keep her in the news...lol how ironic that the people that "hate" her most keep her in the news...

I'd hit it.........

Lol, she has been a millionaire for years.

about two years or three maybe? she is trailer trash with a makeover

I don't understand why people take her seriously. She only does interviews with fox news commentators who fall over her every word. What comes out of her mouth is just short of insane commentary about whoever she dislikes at the moment. She can't even use "WTF" right. *facepalm*

I don't understand why people hate this woman i personally like her. Politically i loathe her though.....She is not a statesperson IMO. She can do great at the state level or below, but federal politics is out of her league i think.

And if what Best said weren't true Palin lovers wouldn't get so upset every time someone has something to say about how moronic Palin is.
Where are the moderators now?
These two posters have clearly directed their comments at other posters and not the topic.
You have such an obsession with defending your goddess that you address every thread about her in the same way.
Get over her. She's a quitter who couldn't even complete the job Alaska voters elected her to do.
She'll never be President.