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"if nothing else, Palin’s voice runs thin very quickly.
I like Sarah and sat 10 feet from her, during a speaking engagement last year.
It’s important to learn which traits in a candidate turn off the swing votes in America..."

Yes, there are some shallow thinkers (or non-thinkers) who won't listen INITIALLY to the substance of what a person is saying, they are "turned off" by that person's voice. And I agree that Palin has a challenge with getting that group to actually listen to what she's saying.

However, if Palin gets the nomination and the voters are looking at her vs Obama on the ballot, do you really think swing voters will vote for Obama just because of Palin's voice? IOW, they like her positions on most of the issues (compared to those of Obama), but they will vote for Obama anyway just because they like the way his voice sounds compared to hers?

I can see it in the primaries when deciding whether to vote for one of the GOP candidates, but are they really that shallow to do so at the general ballot after months of Palin ads and performances in debates?

Yes, I think some people will vote against Palin because of her voice and diction.

You have to have personality to win the White House in the modern TV era. But Palin’s personality is a bit quirky for a number of people. Add in the fact she doesn’t have a boatload of accomplishments and political experience to offset that, her personality will be the issue with a segment of voters.

This is one of the reasons I’m not on the Palin bandwagon. Obama’s only strength is his celebrity with certain segments of the population. Palin has that same strength. I don’t really want to match up against Obama on that particular playing field, i.e. strength v. strength in a “Twitter/Facebook” type campaign. I’d rather have a guy like Paul Ryan who would pull Obama over to the policy debate playing field, where I think Obama loses.

She won’t get the nomination, in part due to the massive MSM attack against her.

Do you realize more than a third of voters are just fine with having the gov’t take care of them, 50% don’t pay taxes, 40% are too busy or disinterested to pay attention to politics, but vote anyway?

Do you really believe rational thought and values based assessment have given us the President, House, and Senate we have today?