Posted on 09/02/2008 12:30:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Republicans shouldn’t mourn the loss of the first night (at least) of their convention. Sarah Palin’s warm reception by the American people and the relative success of preparations to contain the damage of Hurricane Gustav seem to have given the GOP far more bounce than it would’ve gotten from a "conventional" first night in St. Paul.
We’ll never know just how much Barack Obama gained in the polls from his magnificent acceptance speech. He spoke too late on Thursday for any post-speech polling to be effective — and John McCain announced his selection of Palin the next morning.
So the Friday night polls reflected both the bounce from Obama’s speech and from McCain’s surprise — which seems to have neutralized the Democrat’s gains. (That night, Zogby gave McCain a two-point lead; Rasmussen found Obama three ahead.)
Our guess is that Obama’s speech had a huge impact — counteracted by a huge plus for McCain from his surprise pick of Palin.
Meanwhile, making up for the loss of the first night of the convention is the contrast between the chaos that greeted Katrina’s landfall in 2005 and this year’s smooth preparations. McCain, the administration and the GOP Gulf-state governors should all gain. At the very least, they’ve all shown that they’ve learned from the mistakes of three years ago.
Palin is a godsend to McCain. She injects charisma and novelty into what would otherwise have been a deadly dull ticket. She has a compelling record of battling corruption in Alaska — uncovering misconduct by fellow Republicans and beating a GOP pork-king governor in a primary.
And his choice of her suggests that the old John McCain — the bold, fighting Senate maverick — is back. (News that Palin’s daughter is pregnant should make no difference.
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Whatever. I'm sure that it didn't swing their opinion at all. They're drinking the Obama Kool-aid. "He's YOUNG. And he's for CHANGE! And he's CUTE! And he's WELL-SPOKEN!"
Never mind that those qualifications apply to WBill Jr, too. Honestly, they're welcome to him, at least when he needs the "change" part. Phew!
She is Dick Morris' wife.
Yup, if the broadcast networks will air her speech... and I'm not convinced they will. They may either go with normal programming or jump to hurricane coverage or have a talking head talk right over her.
If the public gets a good look at her it could mean 4 or 8 yrs of McCain/Palin followed by 8yrs of Palin/Jindal followed by 8 yrs of Jindal/? and they will do anything to prevent it.
I am completely confident that the Networks, the Cable Networks, Talk Radio, Internet Radio, Sirius, the whole gang will broadcast Sarah Palin’s speech.
Right now, there is no more a compelling figure in politics, there is no one else who the American People want to know what Sarah Palin is like, and what she has to say.
This is her entrance to the Stage, the Camera never blinks, this event will be huge.
I’m going to pray for her tonight.
Obama’s fantastic speech of which not a word is worth quoting. It’s sad.
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It really is sad, I am sick and tired of hearing mountains of praise heaped on great “orators” who say absolutely nothing worth hearing. Much of what Obama said was even absurd and should have had people laughing him off the stage. What has happened to Americans?
I said: "Why bother...it's not anything we haven't heard already before...same old crap!
Ah. Thanks.
I hadn't seen a co-byline for a Dick Morris piece before. (Not that I go out of my way to look for Morris' stuff.)
So True! Only concern I have for her family is that they'll have to lower themselves and be forced to visit the Beltway now and then! They're all multi-taskers to a level that Easterners can't begin to fathom!
Wow....hadn't got that far .... Beautiful scenario! You've been multitasking again haven't you?
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