Politically she's an independent and generally leans Democrat - she definitely hates the President and badmouths me him constantly.
She was pretty excited about Obama and was not a big Hillary Clinton fan.
When Palin was nominated, she was impressed - though not convinced by the McCain campaign as a whole.
But she is now enraged by the attacks on Palin - specifically the attacks that imply that she is a neglectful mom for being in politics, and the attacks saying that she is inexperienced.
She told my friend that she considers these negative comments about a working mom to be a personal insult and that Obama people criticizing Palin for lack of experience is hypocritical (probably because she herself defended Obama's lack of experience previously).
She went from being a soft Obama supporter to a McCain leaner basically overnight.
The left is handling this announcement with complete incompetence.
I think that scenario is playing out all over America right now. Give it a couple of weeks and Obama will be facing a historic meltdown.
McCain has a genius on his campaign. I suspect "Rove the Magnificent Bastard"