Iowa (US), July 11: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin believes that a majority of Americans are keen for a positive change at the national level, and she is hoping for new entrants, including herself, to make a possible bid for the White House in 2012.

“I believe that I can win a national election. The people of America are desperate for positive change, and deserving of positive change, to get us off of this wrong track,” Politico quoted Palin, as saying at a sitting in the private dining room of a hotel in rural Iowa.

“I’m not so egotistical as to believe that it has to be me, or it can only be me, to turn things around. But I do believe that I can win,” she added.

Turning to the political landscape, Palin said that President Obama is beatable in 2012, and that there are “many, many qualified and able candidates out there” to take him on.

Asked what was to be made of the fact that so many Republicans were looking beyond the field of declared candidates to people like herself, and Governors. Rick Perry and Chris Christie, Palin said, “It suggests that the field is not set. Thank goodness the field is not yet set. I think that there does need to be more vigorous debate. There needs to be a larger field. And there’s still time. There’s still months ahead, where more folks can jump in and start articulating their positions.”

After the 2008 election, Palin tried to do something that hadn’t been done in 20 years: return to the governor’s chair after defeat on a national ticket (Michael Dukakis was the last to manage it, in 1988).

Palin lost her motivation to stay in the job and fight.

It is an abiding source of annoyance to Palin that her success story as Alaska’s governor vanished overnight in 2008.

“Do people not understand why McCain picked me?” she said with some exasperation. (ANI)