Palin Backers Use Film to Spread Message Ahead of Iowa Speech

An online poll featured on the Iowa-based Tea Party of America’s website asks, “When do you think Sarah Palin will announce as a candidate for the presidency?”

There are seven options from which respondents can choose, making the last one — “don’t think she’s running” — appear as if it were added as a mere afterthought.

Members of the newly formed Tea Party group, which will host the former Alaska governor at a rally in Iowa on Saturday, have made clear that they have no special insight into Palin’s presidential intentions. But the group has been touting Palin’s address as a major event, and if she does use the speech to strongly hint at the likelihood of a White House bid, Palin’s team of self-appointed volunteer organizers in the Hawkeye State are ready to pick up the pace of their own efforts, too.

Ladd Ventling, who serves as a county coordinator for the Iowa branch of Organize4Palin, told RCP that he spoke privately with Todd Palin for over 20 minutes about the volunteer group’s efforts during the visit by Alaska’s former First Couple to the Iowa State Fair earlier this month.