I totally believe that everyone who voted for McCain-Palin were voting for Sarah, not McCain.
But they still came up 10 million votes short, didn’t they?
Those are the hard figures.
When it came down to election day, 0bama had 10 million more supporters willing to go to the polls for him than Sarah had.
It’s time for the GOP to move on.
It would be political suicide to pull a Mondale with this chick.
“Chick”? What kind of silly leftist troll are you and just how in the hell have you avoided getting banned?
You must be the dumbest twit in the free world.
Who is your candidate?
There's a certain logic to what you're saying, but it won't hold true in 2012.
1. 2008 was in large part about President Bush, and in lesser parts about Iraq, the economy, and the sense that the country was heading in the wrong direction.
2. Obama was an unknown quantity, and actually used his mysterious status to great advantage. Hope and change meant whatever the voter wanted it to mean.
3. McCain is unpopular with Republicans and would have been decimated if not for Palin. While they ultimately got less votes, her late arrival to his campaign still helped him avoid a total rout.
4. The novelty factor. Lots of people voted with their American Idol instincts.
2012 will be vastly different. Obama is wearing the 'President Bush' hat now. You can't be the Hope and Change candidate when you're the Man. You can't be the mysterious intellectual outsider-to-the-rescue when everyone watched you run the country into the poorhouse for the last 4 years. Obama's no longer a novelty, either. He'll be hip, and cool, and beloved. Just not respected as a leader.
In short, a lot of the pillars of Obama's strength will be weakened or destroyed by 2012, whereas Palin's will not.
Go back to the DU dude. You are an obvious troll.
Those who did so voted accd, to their FEELINGS, which I thought was 'sposed to be of a liberal mentality...but the fact of the matter is that if you voted for Palin, you voted for JUAN McCAIN, & there's no way of going around that. HE woulda been President, not her. HE woulda been the one calling the shots.
That's what you get when you vote w/ your feelings rather than your intelligence.
Obama obtained 69,456,897 votes. McCain received 59,934,814 votes. That’s roughly a 10 million vote difference. Still, McCain would have won with only 4,761,043
more votes (out of the same total number of votes).
After extending the election process so that Acorn could have time to vote every false registration, I suspect they came up about 10 million ahead, Acorn came up about 20 million minus.
Palin almost accidentally upset the apple cart after all the worms were in. She represents the people, the only ones that the votes are desired these days. That is why they must destroy her. Infinite court cases paid for by, guess who, the goobermint... Yeah, that's an accident.
Democracy, one man one vote... manure, they can steal an election on prime time and do not even protest...
Did you see her speech? There was NOBODY there. I mean really nobody. Her immediate family, the Lt. Gov. and his immediate family, and a couple of TV cameras. I watched through the whole thing and was amazed at the dead silence. Not one single clap through the entire long-winded speech. Then at the end her family and the Lt. Gov’s family made a lame attempt at applause. Anybody who’s still thinking this woman could run for President and even get the GOP nomination is delusional.
And how many of those were dead or cartoon characters?