Does someone who says of Sarah Palin, “the governor is someone I admired as a future star of the party before she was chosen” sound like an undecided independent? Unless you live in Alaska, would you really be aware of Palin or refer to the GOP as “the party” unless you were already a Republican partisan? Just sayin’. Here are two other focus groups who watched Palin’s speech Wednesday with a slightly different result.

–Tim Fernholz

Tim Fernholz is a former staff writer for the Prospect. His work has been published by Newsweek, The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, and The Daily Beast. He is also a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation.