How do you come by that one?
McCain was already losing the “woman's vote” by a big margin BEFORE Gov Paling was even nominated.
McCain shot ahead by 4% at RCP after Gov Paalin energized the base with her rousing RNC speech. McCain's speech was a snoozefest.
McCain sank after his notorious vote for that $700 billion bailout vote, and his speech blaming the Republican appointed Chairman of the SEC instead of blaming the Dims and Barney Frank the real culprits). He never recovered. No one can save a guy that is determined to lose like McCain was.
It's right in the article -- the 2008 share of the "women's vote" dropped off 4% from the 2004 share of the "women's vote".
McCain never really found a message.
During the primaries/debates his only message was that he support the surge.
By the general election, Iraq was basically off the table. McCain didn’t have much else to run on.
And the boondoggle bailbout didn’t help. Especially after just weeks before, McCain saying he didn’t know much about economics. And then he helped construct and vote for the $700 Billion plus the additional $150 Billion or so pork.
Afterward, he had the nerve to continue to say that he, as president, would veto any pork bills.
His numbers went down hill after that ‘stunt’ of suspending his campaign and voting for that boondoggle and its pork.
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.