Tyrone Slothrop said:
i dunno about that. (from what i've seen) they're still going on the experience argument pretty hard. of course, it's ridiculous and hypocritcal, but in their worldview palin is somehow lightyears more experienced than community organizer obama could ever hope to be.
Exactly, the argument came off as ridiculous and hypocritical to anyone outside of the Republican base. Before, Independents and soft dems were questioning Obama's experience. But once McCain picked Palin, the experience argument pretty much became a wash. Especially considering how old McCain is, the possibility of Palin becoming President is higher than normal. So if McCain thinks Palin is ready on day one, then Obama can't be too far off either in most voter's minds.
Don't get confused with what the McCain campaign wants people to believe and what actually resonates with the majority of the public.
and the women vote thing, IMO that's not exactly why palin was picked. of course it helped but i think mccain wanted to pick up on the momentum of there being a first [fill in demographic here] president/vice president.
Yeah and just who exactly do you think he was targeting with the "First Woman Vice President!". He wanted to drum up excitement for his campaign but he was targeting women obviously. Remember how the McCain campaign went out of their way to praise Hilary Clinton in July/August? They released several commercials praising Hilary and Palin's first couple of speeches praised Hilary. They finally had to take the Hilary references out of her speech when Palin got booed. :lol But the McCain campaign was very transparent about trying to woo women voters.
They obviously backed away from it when it was apparent that it wasn't working. So they now say, "Oh Palin was just meant to energize the base". But initially she was meant to not only energize the base (social & economic conservatives) but also pull women over the way African Americans have flocked to Obama.
One thing these people don't understand when they try to play identity politics is that the reason black people vote for Obama almost unanimously isn't just because he's black. It's because he's black
and qualified. The same thing with Hilary. Women voted for her in large droves because she was a woman
and extremely qualified.
