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Palin's fringe? Can you explain, please. I thought she was very popular.
In certain circles, yeah. The Tea Party loves her. The Comedians (Tina Fey, Jon Stewart) love her. The DNC fund raisers love her for the same reason the GOP fund raisers love Pelosi and HRC.
For the moderates she's poison. Take 2008 for example. Indiana has been a solid GOP pick up for a very long time in Presidential elections. Its a state where even the Democrats are Republicans. After 2008 I went home again to Indiana and asked family and friends what the heck happened for McCain to lose that state.
The number one answer: Palin.
Family and friends that never once in their lives voted for a Democrat voted for Obama because Palin scares the crap out of them.
Palin was supposed to be a bid for McCain to energize Conservatives, but even with her he couldn't carry Indiana and North Carolina.
Please, Palin reenergized McCain campaign and had him ahead until the financial meltdown.
Without Palin, McCain looses 54, 55 of our 57 states.