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No, voters vote for whatever motivates them to vote.
McCain’s entire campaign strategy was to get people to come out and vote for his “bold pick” of Palin.
And though many came out to vote for her, she still came up short on delivering those votes in the end.

You ca’t expect people to compartmentalize these things in an election.
They’re not saying, “man, I’d really like to vote for Palin, but I have to vote for the top of the ticket only.”
It doesn’t work like that.

Every one of Sarah Palin’s supporters came out to vote for her, and there were 60 million of them.
Every one of 0bama’s supporters came out to vote and there were 70 million of them.

Some people have falsely accused me of claiming Palin made McCain lose. That’s not true. This isn’t a 3-legged race. It is a race with 4 people. Each brings their supporters out to vote, and the team with the most combined supporters wins.

0bama was the one on the Democrat ticket with all the supporters.
Palin was the one on the Republican ticket with all of the supporters.
McCain may have contributed to his own ticket modestly, so Sarah’s total numner of supporters is actually somewhat less than 60 million.
Biden brought absolutely no supporters to the Democrat ticket.
Then the votes got counted, and the team with the most votes total won.
Biden was no help to his team at all.
McCain was barely a help to his.
So that made it a race for the most votes primarily between 0bama and Palin.
And Palin came up 10 million votes short.

If she challenged obama again, she should suffer the same fate.
Just like Dewey, Stevenson, and Mondale all did in ill-fated rematches before her.

“So that made it a race for the most votes primarily between 0bama and Palin.
And Palin came up 10 million votes short.

If she challenged obama again, she should suffer the same fate.
Just like Dewey, Stevenson, and Mondale all did in ill-fated rematches before her.”

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Okay, I officially retract the part about, “you can't be that stupid.”

I don’t want to find 100 links to articles showing you the basic political wisdom that “people vote for the top of the ticket” It wouldn’t take too long to find those articles, but I suspect you know that already.

Apparently you’re a Romneybot troll.

I read your odd theory on another thread that in this one unique case, it wasn’t McCain that people were voting for or against, but Palin.

It just doesn’t work that way.

What a substantial number of people said was “I like Palin, but I hate McCain, and Palin is only the Vice President, and Palin will have to follow McCains policies, so I’ll sit home”

Sometimes the liking of Palin was enough to overwhelm the hating of McCain, sometimes the liking of Palin wasn’t enough to overwhelm the hating of McCain.

Some of Sarah Palin’s supporters hated McCain so much that
they couldn’t hold their nose and vote for McCain. Let’s say that’s 10 million people who stayed home and didn’t vote for McCain because they hated McCain more than they liked Palin, or they realized that Palin was the VP, and it was McCain who was making the decisions.