If you look back to the 2008 elections, the indies didn’t go for Palin because they didn’t think she was ready to be VP.
When you think about Mccain, he is the type that indies and moderates like, but he was a poor candidate and conservatives despise him. He picked Palin and touted her as a conservative because his showing would have been abysmal without the base. She provided conservatives with cover for voting against Obama for someone they disliked immensely.
If he had picked someone other than Palin, he might have gotten more of the independent vote, but would have had a poor showing from the base of the party.
You idea she is like Mom probably has truth in it for some. They can’t picture Mom as president. She is a woman, a pretty woman. At that age many still think that the pretty ones are fun, but not to be taken seriously. That isn’t particularly fair, but that is the way it is. Maybe if she were older the perception would be different.
Obama won by speaking in private to his marxist elites. Speaking in code to his black base. Speaking as the great healer and uniter, almost Reaganesque, to everybody else.
Maybe she plans to do that. I say that because she will have to moderate her persona to get the moderates and indies. That may disappoint many conservatives except the die hard fans.
Or she can hope the great Obama makeover is a total bust. LOL
Absolutely right on.
...and the indies went for OBAMA at the TOP of the Democrat ticket because HE was ready to be President??? LOL!
Um, McCain was the top of the GOP ticket. He was the drag. Historically, the VP nominee has VERY little influence on the overall outcome of the general election.
For those two reasons, your assertion is marginal, at best.
With Bush in the rearview mirror and Obama in the driver's seat with his masterful collectivist propaganda, his election was inevitable.
Indeed, it is only when there is a weak or retiring GOP incumbent that Democrats ever win a Presidential election in the modern era...