Not very, it seems. Her recent return to Alaska was kicked off with an official "welcome home" rally attended by about a thousand people.

Meanwhile, however, the grassroots-organized "Alaska Women Reject Sarah Palin" rally boasted 1400 people which, small as the number sounds, makes it the largest political rally in the history of the state of Alaska!

I knew that the figures Republicans love to cite about Palin's alleged popularity in her own state where phony, seeing as they came from polls taken well before Palin's many mishandlings, scandals, abuses of power and downright theft of taxpayer money, but now we have some pretty good evidence that she's highly unpopular at home. This is unusual, since in most cases a presidential or VP candidate can count on the support of their own state.