Barring video footage of Obama molesting a child, or killing someone, he’ll win in a landslide. McCain’s only hope was to pick someone that is exciting (even if that’s a stupid reason to pick someone).
I generally agree, but the battleground of the electorate is the middle 35.7% (or whatever the number is): The independent/moderate party (IMP); politically speaking, the IMP is an apathetic, middle-class, but loyal, i.e., not socialistic, demographic. It’s Senator McCain’s target.
Anyway, seems to me these voters are not viscerally opposed to two white guys on a ticket.
But, I am sorta of rooting for Gov. Palin of Alaska. (I read an interesting essay recently down-playing the assumed requirement that a VP choice must bring a contested State into the fold. An earlier poster here recognized that that “rule” would not apply to a person who is not a typical white guy.)
Palin has good and solidly conservative instincts, she is quite attractive and telegenic, and would definitely add excitement to a campaign that surely bores the dead.
She has at least as much or more gravitas and experience than Senator Obama. I think she would help McCain with women voters. And men voters.
Off topic: I read today that the origin of McCain’s skin cancer may be traced to his days as a POW, kept in the sun all day. I had not seen this in the msm.