McCain’s Game Changer
Writing by abuhatem on Friday, 29 of August , 2008 at 10:32 am
Dick Morris, former Clinton adviser and a Republican, wrote last week that Obama’s snub of Hillary would be deadly if McCain picked a woman. McCain’s pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin - an actual conservative unlike himself - as his running mate (and Pat Buchanan’s favorite pick as she once worked on his presidential campaign - he has called her a “Buchananite” before) is going to help him out a lot.
This is very unfortunate for people like me who are more anti-McCain than anti-Obama. Sarah Pallin was a much smarter pick than Joe Biden. She is a governor, a new face, and will take away some Hillary votes from Obama - especially hurting Obama in Ohio and the heartland.
Obama is going to have to paint Pallin as an extremist and Biden is going to have to beat her in the VP debates if he wants to counter this one.
McCain is up 1.4 points on the prediction markets after this pick. Too early for national polls, but national polls don’t tell us anything.
I don’t know enough about Sarah Pallin right now to form a political judgment about her.
Category: American Politics
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