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.
You shouldn’t take the word of the frothing HuckaBots.
They see “RomneyBot trolls” everywhere.
Everyone who won’t drink their Kool-Aid is an agent of Romney.
They’re like the Leftists who see the eeevil hand of Karl Rove in everything.
10 million Palin supporters stayed home because they don’t like McCain?
That is pure fantasy.
Palin supporters all jumped at the opportunity to vote for their girl.
They weren’t going to let some fuddy old man come between them and Sarah.
After all, once they got Sarah in as VP, she would almost certainly be finishing McCain’s term as president, and running for reelection on the top of the ticket in 2012.