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Originally Posted by Clocker

Most of the analysis I saw after the election showed that Palin cost some votes and gained some votes, and over-all appeared to have little effect on the final totals.

I agree for the most part on what you just said, Clocker, but I do recall that days leading up to the GOP nominating convention, Obama was double-digits in front in most polls, especially those polls that future Obama stenographers at ABC, MSNBC, CNN and the rest of the cabal were citing.

Then McCain picked Palin, and Sarah's acceptance speech won over the conservatives that basically had no use for McCain and was going to stay home. Within a week or so, the McCain-Palin ticket overcame most of that double-digit poll deficit. Thanks to Sarah.

Then the vulgar main stream press went into attack mode on Sarah, and we know the rest. They knew Sarah was making sense and energizing a morbid McCain. They needed to crush her personally, good liberals that they are.

Of course, the misogynst Karl Rove also showed his lack of class by basically siding with the vulgarians in the left wing media, which didn't help. Then add the clowns that ran McCain's campaign like Steve Schmidt and Mike Murphy, who put the final siiv into Sarah's back and the election was lost.

It didn't matter what McCain did, he could not have won that election. No Republican could have. The election was about Bush, and the mood of the country was anti-Bush. Who ever got the Democratic nomination that year was the next president.

Once again, Clocker, you're spot on. But McCain also lost the race by his own doing as well, especially in the early days of the financial meltdown when he suspended his campaign for a few days. McCain offered no answers nor solutions to the crisis and looked like a boob when asked about it.