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Of course, a RINO, who needed her for CREDIBILITY with the Conservative base so he could draw on them for support, is going to blame her, for his loss.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republican voters say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin helped John McCainÂ’s bid for the presidency, even as news reports surface that some McCain staffers think she was a liability.
That's great and everything, but that implies that 31% of republican voters thought she hurt his bid.
And that's republicans. Those are the people he should have been able to count on.
In fact, McCain only got 90% of the GOP vote, compared to 93% for Bush-43 in 2004 and 92% for the Mormon in 2012. He also only got 78% of the conservative vote, compared to 84% for Bush and 82% for Romney.
But here's where McCain really fell flat on his face. He only got 44% of independents and 39% of moderates. (Bush and Romney did better with both groups.)
In short, the people he needed to win, the people he should have won because he was a different kind of Republican (i.e. not Batshit Crazy) he didn't win because Palin scared those folks off.
]Gallup polls from the last presidential race[/COLOR][/B][/FONT][/URL] prove that once Palin joined the ticket on Aug. 29, 2008, McCainÂ’s ratings steadily climbed to a point where the Republican ticket even outshined Democratic Sen. Barack Obama.[/]In the two weeks before Palin joined the McCain ticket, the Arizona senator drifted in the low 40 percentile range, mostly around 41, 42 and 43 percent, while Obama held as much as an 8 point lead at about 49 and 50 percent. Four days after Palin joined the ticket, however, McCainÂ’s numbers climbed to 45 percent and ObamaÂ’s sank to 47 percent, narrowing the gap significantly from eight points to two.
Between Sept. 4-6, McCain and Palin actually overshot the Obama ticket by 3 percent with the Republicans in the lead at 48 percent and the Democrats at only 45. McCain consistently held that lead until Sept. 15, and then the candidates balanced out with Obama enjoying a mere three-point lead, and no lead at all from Sept. 22-24, when the numbers were tied at 46 percent.
This is sort of meaningless. During EVERY convention period, that is when the party's nominee will have his best numbers. for instance, in 1988, during the week of his convention, Mike Dukakis was leading George H. Bush by 16 points. No one credits Lloyd Bensten for that.
Reality check, though, after peaking with his convention, people had enough time to think, "The Republicans fucked up the economy, this crazy old Asshole thinks we need another war in Iran, and oh, yeah, his running mate appears to be clinically retarded."
Oh by the way, using the font features to create "hostage notes" does note make your posts any easier to read or make them any more intelligent.
