Sarah Palin needs to spend as much time as she can in Pennsylvania and Ohio over the next 63 days. She will own those states, and their swing voters. You think Obama wishes now that he'd chosen Hillary Clinton?
Swing states and Sarah Palin
Wednesday September 3, 2008
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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RJohnson, OF COURSE drilling doesn't increase supply immediately, but aren't we going to need hydrocarbons 5 years from now? Maybe you think the Lightworker will discover a magic alternative energy supply by then, or maybe you're anticipating the end of the world based on the fact that the ancient Mayan calendar ends in 2013, but the rest of us believe it is highly farookin' likely that we're going to need that supply 5 years from now.
“Do people honestly believe that women will vote for her just because she is a woman? Really? Do men think we are that stupid? How sad.”
It’s your interpretation of the question that she’s a woman. But is that interpretation correct? It’s my interpretation of the question that she has potential appeal to blue collar and middle class voters in the swing states who will decide the next president of the United States for all of us. This was supposed to be Hilary’s strength too, not anything anatomical.
This why Biden’s and other peoples complaint that Palin didn’t mention the middle class is irrelevant. She IS middle class. Her husband is blue collar and union. Her family with its now public successes and failures is more typically American, middle class, and blue collar than anything McCain, Obama, Biden, or Clinton have to offer.
Whatever the effect on female voters, Palin will unquestionably help the Republican ticket with male voters. A fine-looking mother of five who shoots caribou and was a sportscaster -- what's not to like, from the male perspective?
[tongue]Here's my October surprise: Senator Biden makes a really dumb comment and is forced out of the race. Senator Obama then replaces him with Senator Clinton.[/cheek]
Or more likely, [tongue]makes a really dumb comment that is discovered to have been orginally made by Neil Kinnock..[/cheek]
"Do people honestly believe that women will vote for her just because she is a woman?" LL
TR: I don't. What I do think is that women who are similar to her on issues might be more motivated to vote than they were before. I mean McCain married a divorced model, then dumped her when she got damaged in favor of an heiress. Although I think he really is repentant about that stuff, it probably hurt him with some conservative women. And the POW thing I think is slightly less interesting for women than men.
Hillary may have been more inspiring for Democratic women as a VP candidate, but so far they seem to line up with Obama quite well. He likely needed someone who'd reach out to moderates more, which Biden doesn't precisely do.
That said I still don't think it matters. Republicans are in a world of hurt and will most likely still lose. He could've gotten the ghost of Eisenhower on the ticket, as he appeals to independents, and his winning would still be a long shot.
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