Posted on 11/12/2008 6:31:58 AM PST by reaganaut1
As Richard Nixon wrote, “history is written by liberals,” but the story of the 2008 campaign is too important to cede to them the analysis of what happened. A close analysis of the returns indicates several key realities:
a) Sarah Palin made a vast difference in McCain’s favor. Compared to 2004, McCain lost 11 points among white men, according to the Fox News exit poll, but only four points among white women. Obama’s underperformance among white women, evident throughout the fall, may be chalked up, in large part, to the influence of Sarah Palin. She provided a rallying point for women who saw their political agenda in terms larger than abortion. She addressed the question of what it is like to be a working mother in today’s economy and society and resonated with tens of millions of white women who have not responded to the more traditional, and liberal, advocates for their gender.
b) Turnout did not increase substantially. Despite predictions (by me and others) of a vastly greater voter turnout, it didn’t happen. About 127 million people voted in 2008, compared to 122 million in 2004. By contrast, turnout rose by almost 20 million between 2000 and 2004. The emphasis on early voting and the heavy participation in primaries indicated the likelihood of a huge increase in turnout, but, on Election Day, the turnout was modest.
c) The black vote made a huge difference; but young people did not. Obama, as expected, generated a big increase in African-American voter turnout. Fox News’s exit polls estimate that blacks constituted 13 percent of the turnout in 2008, compared with 11 percent in 2004 and 10 percent in 2000. But voters under 30 years of age were still the same 11 percent of the vote that they were in 2004.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Don’t worry about steve-b, he is a crank who has been dumping on Governor Palion since she was nominated, often posting half a dozen or more anti-Palin threads per day.
Yep. Big time. They savaged her in an offensive and unbelievable manner. It only made her stronger and I do hope she pays them back in spades...
well the upside is that affirmative action is now dead.
” Yeah the man is keeping me down”
“Ahem, Obama would be the man that is keeping you down then”
When you talk landslide you talk mondale reagan.
Minority and women candidates are the prime targets of the left:
Michael Steele - his identity stolen by Chuck Schummer staffers in the MD Senate race. Materials found in credit check were used in anti-Steele advertising
Michelle Bachmann - $2m from Pelosi after Chrissy Matthews baited her into talking about Congress and Obama being un-American in the final 2 weeks of the campaign.
Alan Keyes - limited to NO media coverage for years and denying the majority of black people from knowing his existence.
The last three months with Sarah Palin.
They target Republican women and minorities with nuclear media hate to maintain the myth that only fat white men can be Republican or conservative.
No, a landslide defeat is McGovern against Nixon: McGovern carried Massachusetts. That's it -- one state out of 50.
The girls in our family have had to deal with “those sorts” our whole lives ;-). I have fewer female friends than male, but my closest female friends are all very pretty, just like yours are!
“Well, his O-ness has been president-elect for a week and the DOW has dropped again today. So far, it is down about 1,000 points since the election.”
I try to be fair even to left-wing radicals. The stock market has been dropping like a rock under Bush, too.
I have family members who wouldn’t have voted for McCain had it not been for Palin. I also have reports from a family member who (very courageously) continues to wear the Palin button about being constantly stopped and told the same thing. Allowing the liberals to choose our liberal Presidential candidate, which is what happened, was poison to conservatives and they did what they said they’d do...they sat this one out. Hopefully the lesson has been learned, but unless every one of us becomes active and vocal at the county level we will get the same thing next time. Find out where your county GOP meets, go and demand changes such as no early primaries. Push for voter ID, push for shorter early voting times, try to close the loopholes that allow vote stealing. And most important of all, support conservative candidates and let the party know we don’t want moderates.
Dickie is right, at least in my case. If there had been two RINOs and zero conservatives on the ticket, I would have voted third party or just skipped the Presidential race altogether. I’d never have voted for Buckwheat & Biden, but I wouldn’t have voted RINO either. I don’t vote for liberals of either party.
But Sarah got my vote, and she was the only reason I pulled the R lever in that race.
And Tricky Dick was damn right too: some say that the winners write the history books, but at least in recent years it has been the losers (liberals).
The US I see on the horizon of time is a far, far cry from the US that I grew up in. Yeah some things in the new version of America are an improvement, the elimination of racial segregation being the foremost example, but IMHO there are many more negatives than positives overall. It's enough to make me glad that I won't be around to see the ultimate result of this "diversity" that the liberals celebrate, but it also makes me sad to know that my kids and grandkids will be here to see the new America and to live under it's politically correct laws that would horrify and disgust the authors of the Constitution.
Toe sucker is such a brown noising joke.
The market is (and has been) dropping like a rock for obvious reasons.
Before the election:
1. Market manipulators & moneychangers trying desperately to get O’Bongo elected. Any bad economic news is spun (and will continue to be, even after Bush is long gone) by the media against Bush & the Republicans. Even when, as in the “mortgage crisis”, the problem is 100% the fault of the Rats and their policies.
After the election:
1. Manipulation to lower expectations for the incoming O’Bongo regime. “It will take years to recover from the damage Bush and the Republicans did to the economy”. That will be the Rat talking point for months or years to come. And the morons will continue to believe whatever the media tells them.
2. To impoverish more people, as whatever paper wealth they had in the market (401Ks, pension plans, etc.) evaporates into nothingness. More impoverished people means more poor suckers dependent on the Gubmint to help them out, which means more Rat voters.
“Who was more important on the ticket? Look at who was attacked more on the campaign. The fear on the left was against Governor Palin not John McCain.”
The fear was also on the side of the Republicans to include McNut:
RUSH... “It’s worse than I thought. There are moderate Republicans who want nothing to do with a conservative who can fire up people.” (Meaning Sarah Palin.)
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“Why destroy Sarah Palin right now? The only reason I see is to make sure she doesn’t rise again as a force for conservatism in the Republican Party.”
She may opt to chose to run for VP again, but I really don't know who would head the ticket. Fred Thompson is too old. Bobby Jindal is great, but really doesn't have much more experience and even less name recognition. Huckabee is just southern fried McCain without the experience. Romney has the economic competence, looks and experience, but I also think he would be a better VP to hone up his conservative bonafides before he could be fully trusted. Newt Gingrich is a great strategist, but would be seen as a step backward into the Clinton years.
So, all-in-all, I really don't see a better candidate out there than Sarah Palin.
bump for later
Witness what's happening in Minnesota. Coleman is having the election ripped away from under him. Welcome Senator Stuart Smiley...
There is so much truth in your words, SJ, that they bear repeating.
More than once I got the feeling that McCain wanted to throw this election. He wanted everyone to stand up and fight for America--except him.
We knew this about him before, but tried to drag Yosemite Sam kicking and screaming across the finish line in spite of himself, to save the country from Obama.
Now, 20 years to the day when the great Ronald Reagn left office, a radical Marxist thug from Chicago will be inaugurated, and will usher in all of the ideals Reagan fought against his whole life and defeated.
That's why the GOP is now dead to me. They not only screwed up the opportunity we gave them when they were given all three levers of the government, they did not even fight for America to save it from the clutches of Obama.
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