What’s also telling in this is how the media used the slanted polls to “form opinion.” Notice that the shifts of 5 or more percent almost always went Obama’s way and, even though Obama won, they were nowhere near accurate. Trump wisely knew that polling was a corrupted practice by the time he ran and focused on creating and sustaining enthusiasm not poll-watching. McCain? Suspended his own campaign. Look like he didn’t even want to be there half the time. Created zero enthusiasm. Sarah tried to do the best she could with a campaign apparatus stabbing her in the back the entire way. It’s all more than crystal clear now.
Saturday 21 Sept 2008: CNN: Palin’s Florida debut draws thousands
It may have been a wise choice, if only for the optics - on the same day Barack Obama drew over 20,000 voters to an outdoor rally in North Carolina, Palin attracted tens of thousands of her own sun-baked supporters.
Though the audience was one of the Palin’s largest to date, the actual size of the crowd was unclear. According Mike Tucker, the fire chief of The Villages who was made available to the press by the McCain campaign, 60,000 people crammed into the streets to see Palin speak.
“There were people down the side streets, people down in the parking areas, people who couldn’t quite make it around to the main areas,” Tucker said, adding that many people were let into the rally without tickets, making the crowd count impossible to verify...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/21/palins-florida-debut-draws-thousands/
and then on Sunday 21 Sept, McCain threw his candidacy away:
22 Sept 2008: NYT So McCain Would Like Cuomo for the S.E.C.? New York Politicians Chew It Over
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
In the last year, Andrew M. Cuomo, New York’s hard-driving and ambitious attorney general, has been mentioned as a possible future candidate for governor, senator and New York City mayor.
So it was with a mix of pride, affection and deftly sublimated envy that New York’s political elite chewed over the news on Monday that Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, thought that Mr. Cuomo would also do a pretty good job as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Mr. McCain’s suggestion of the S.E.C. post — made during a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast on Sunday — appeared to take everyone by surprise, including Mr. Cuomo. It came as Mr. McCain made several gestures toward bipartisan cooperation, including promises to include people from both parties in his cabinet...
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/nyregion/23cuomo.html
from then on, Sarah was pretty much shunned by MSM and McCain campaigned as if he was on the Obama team.
I agree. Let's hope it stays that way.
The real kicker was when he told a voter in Minnesota that obama “was a good man” and woukd be a fine president.