“...He (McCain) ceded the top spot to her...”
,,,In your fantasy world. In reality land, he chained her up and never unleashed her. McCain torpedoed his own campaign with statements like “Obama would be a good president”.
McCain did not help his campaign, that’s for sure.
But neither did Palin by not being able to name a single Supreme Court Case, and rambling on incoherently about topics she was clearly not at all versed in, such as the economy.
Like I said, people vote on the person, not the campaign.
If a person doesn’t think 0bama would be a good president, they’re still not going to think so just because McCain told them he would.
Voters assessed the candidates. 70 million people got excited about 0bama. 3 people got excited about Biden. 10 million fewer people got excited over McCain and Palin combined.
No matter how you divvy up the supporters between McCain and Palin, there were fewer of them than there were supporting 0bama. Which is why 0bama lost.
Our 2012 candidate is going to have a pretty high hurdle, and we already know Sarah Palin wasn’t able to reach it.